Minerva Equity Limited - 31 March 2019 Final 19.08.2019 - Flipbook - Page 7
Minerva Equity Limited (formerly DMWSL 881 Limited)
Chief Executive’s review (continued)
Business development and innovation (continued)
Telecoms (continued)
The year has seen the delivery of a nationwide Gfast project on the Openreach network. Work is
being undertaken to upgrade the network to superfast broadband, at its peak workload 200 sites
have been upgraded each week.
CityFibre became a new client with the start of a project to provide a fibre connection to the premises
(“FTTP”) network in Peterborough. Covering approximately 60,000 homes, more cities are set to
follow during 2019/20.
In March 2019, Magdalene was awarded the Northern Ireland Water Operational Telecom Support
Contract. The contract covers all of Northern Ireland Water’s transformational project works across
voice, data and radio networks and will run for three years. In addition, Magdalene extended its 12year relationship with Scottish Water after being chosen as the Operational Communication Support
partner to deliver telemetry services via a new partnership with Atos. The contract will run for the
next five years.
Transport
Dyer & Butler Limited (“Dyer & Butler”) continues to focus on the three key transport sectors of
aviation, rail and highways. In all three sectors, the focus is to deliver works through long-term
framework arrangements and, where appropriate, to augment this work with discrete standalone
projects in the regulated transport market.
With an airport as busy as Heathrow, overcoming congestion and maintaining a smooth traffic flow is
essential to avoid delays. Working under its framework agreement with Heathrow, Dyer & Butler was
awarded the contract to undertake engineering work required to improve traffic flow and the safety
aspects of the roadway around the Airport’s North Cargo Tunnel which carries a large volume of
airport traffic and contractors’ vehicles.
Heathrow is also in the process of increasing the number of airside charging points to support a key
part of its sustainability strategy, to make all of its cars and small vans electric or plug-in hybrids by
2020. As part of this plan, a joint project to install electric vehicle charging points at various buildings
in the Airport’s engineering compound was undertaken by Dyer & Butler and Dyer & Butler Electrical
Limited (“Dyer & Butler Electrical”).
Heathrow’s annual ‘winter resilience’ programme ensures that it is fully prepared to manage all
weather extremes such as heavy snow and ice and, for over six years, Dyer & Butler has provided
experienced labour to operate Heathrow’s vehicles and the hand workers who assist in clearing
snow from the airfield. To undertake this essential work, Dyer & Butler maintains a call-up crew of
upwards of 1,500 workers and machine operators, all of whom are available within hours of a snow
alert.
London City Airport is currently undergoing an £85m development programme to facilitate the
anticipated increase of over 100,000 annual scheduled aircraft movements and the accompanying
six million passenger journeys. Dyer & Butler were awarded contracts, covering enabling, drainage
works and electrical services relating to the development. Birmingham Airport a new client for the
division is undergoing major development as part of its 2018 Master Plant, which will include the
addition of a new taxiway, parallel to the runway, to allow for increased flight activity. As part of the
maintenance programme, Dyer & Butler was awarded the contract to undertake a major joint sealing
and taxiway slab project.
In April 2018, Dyer & Butler commenced its four-year frameworks to maintain and enhance the
railway for Network Rail. These included three reactive and minor works contracts in Sussex,
Wessex and South-Wales, and a project framework in Wessex. The three reactive frameworks
involve 24/7 on-call response services, delivering inspections, maintenance and repairs. The project
framework focuses on planned project works on the existing Network Rail infrastructure.
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