Flood management appointment

Civil engineering powerhouse VolkerStevin has been appointed to the UK Environment Agency’s Collaborative Delivery Framework (CDF), a new framework which will continue the delivery of the EA’s flood and coastal erosion risk management programme.

VolkerStevin has worked continuously with the Environment Agency over the past 15 years, and will become the sole delivery partner for capital works in two regions – the north west and the south east.

The new Collaborative Delivery Framework replaces the Environment Agency’s Water and Environment Management (WEM) Framework.

Rob Coupe, managing director at VolkerStevin, said: “We are delighted to have been appointed by the Environment Agency to its Collaborative Delivery Framework. This is our fourth framework with the EA and we are looking forward to the transition from the WEM framework, and to helping the EA successfully achieve its ongoing flood and coastal erosion risk management goals.”

Work is scheduled to begin in 2019, running through to 2023, with an option to extend for a further four years.

By Jake Frith