OCU’s water teams have achieved a series of award wins this year, recognising our commitment to innovation, technical excellence and sustainable delivery across some of the UK’s most complex water infrastructure programmes. From specialist trenchless equipment to low-carbon solutions, these...

Providing sustainable water solutions with maximum outputs and minimum disruption. OCU delivers market-leading Trenchless installation services, underpinned by more than 20 years of experience and continuous investment. We have built a nationally scaled in-house Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) capability, supported...

At a time when innovation is so important, OCU Group (OCU) is driving change within the water sector with its cutting-edge trenchless solutions. OCU Group is one of the UK’s fastest growing utilities and energy-transition specialists and has worked with...

Work is due to begin in Ilkley to lay a new sewer under the A65 to help reduce the frequency and volume of storm discharges into the river Wharfe during periods of heavy or prolonged rainfall. Yorkshire Water’s partner Ward...

Wessex Water’s Rehabilitation Manager Julian Britton discusses how the company has used innovative trenchless technology to renovate sewers. Wessex Water was an early adopter of renovating sewers using trenchless technology and assisted the Water Research Centre (WRc) in their compilation...

After a sewer partially collapsed under the A38 Bristol Road in Bridgwater, Wessex Water used the latest ‘trenchless’ technology to repair the pipe without causing any inconvenience to the public. The sewer pipe was located next to a busy road...

The recent massive changes, from home working and education to ‘Zoom’ pub nights, have proven that new innovation can be rapidly introduced when the need is there. The water industry is no exception and the work of Water UK...

When an ageing water pipeline reached the end of its service life and needed replacing to prevent further water quality and pressure issues, asset owner South East Water and construction firm The Clancy Group engaged Radius Subterra to explore...

Severn Trent has a vast network of pipes that supplies water to its four million customers. In fact, if you stretched them out in a line, they’d measure 46,000km long. That’s long enough to reach around the Earth, with...