AMEC plc - Industrial Development - Aldermaston, AMEC Wins Defence Decommissioning Contract

Date: 22 Nov 2006

AMEC, the international project management and services company, has won a contract to clean up and demolish a number of redundant research facilities on the AWE site at Aldermaston in Berkshire.

The highly-specialised decommissioning work will be completed by AMEC's nuclear consultancy AMEC NNC. The two-year programme begins with a safety case and risk assessment that will last for up to eight months before the treatment of waste and final demolishing of the buildings. The value of the contract is commercially confidential.

"Whilst we have been undertaking work of this nature for many years on other sites, this is a major addition to the engineering consultancy work that we have been typically engaged in on the Aldermaston site for more than 20 years," said manager of clean-up operations John Bloodworth.

"The clean-up work involves not only the treatment and removal of radioactive material but also a quantity of asbestos, so it's imperative that the safety case and risks are thoroughly examined.

"AMEC NNC won the contract in the face of some fierce competition and we are sure that our skills and expertise, coupled with the excellent relationship we have developed with the client over many years working on the site, gave us the edge over our competitors."

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