AN IRISH civil engineering firm has won a contract to lay an extra 11km pipeline at an Essex sewage treatment works.
Roadbridge, a Co. Limerick headquartered firm which also has a base at Welwyn Garden City, secured the job this month for Essex & Suffolk Water, which is part of Northumbrian Water.
Although originally costed at around £12m, the Irish firm won the contract with a bid of £3.7m.
Essex & Suffolk Water plans to increase the capacity of their existing dual pipeline, which carries flows from the Chelmsford sewage treatment works to the Blackwater Estuary.
Roadbridge will be responsible for the design, supply and installation of a new underground gravity pipeline, which will to run in parallel with the existing pipelines.
