Building Briefs – January 9th

• Further A9 dualling ground investigations start next week

The work will take place on the Glen Garry to Dalwhinnie and Dalwhinnie to Crubenmore stretches of the A9 and is expected to last around three months.

Some traffic management measures will be required when necessary to allow work on or near the carriageway to be carried out safely. This will include alternate single file traffic sections controlled by temporary traffic signals.

• Caledonia Water Alliance announces site investigation work

Caledonia Water Alliance (CWA) is set to carry out site investigation work on Dumbreck Road on behalf of Scottish Water.

From Saturday 12 January, road traffic management will be in place on Dumbreck Road just south of the slip road at junction 23 (onto M8) to a point just past Rowan Road. One lane will be closed southbound to allow for two-way traffic.

Road traffic management has been agreed in liaison with Glasgow City Council and is expected to be in place for approximately five days.

On Tuesday 15 January, further survey work begins on Dumbreck Road at its entrance to Pollok Country Park and is expected to last for approximately five days.

Access to the park will be maintained throughout.

• North Lanarkshire waste water treatment works powered by green energy

Committed to lowering Scotland’s carbon footprint, Scottish Water Horizons has transformed a North Lanarkshire waste water treatment facility into a green energy site.

Adding to the list of Scottish Water treatment facilities now powered by green energy is Carbarns Waste Water Treatment Works in Wishaw.

An investment of £430,000 made by the utility’s commercial subsidiary, Scottish Water Horizons, has led to a total of 1380 photovoltaic (PV) solar panels being installed on unused ground at the treatment works. It is Scottish Water’s fifth biggest PV scheme to date.

The carbon reducing technology will offset 15 percent of the electricity required to operate the site, with the new solar PV system generating 0.27GWh of energy on an annual basis – that’s the same amount of energy needed to power 80 homes a year.

More than 70 of Scottish Water’s water and waste water treatment works are either self-sufficient or partly sufficient in their power requirements. A major energy milestone was achieved in May of last year after it was confirmed that the amount of renewable energy the company generates and facilitates is now more than double its electricity consumption.

Through a combination of Scottish Water’s own investment in renewable energy and hosting private investment on its estate, the company now generates and hosts around 923 Gigawatt hours (GWh) per annum of renewable energy.

This new installation at the treatment works in North Lanarkshire contributes to the Scottish Government’s targets for renewable sources to generate the equivalent of 100 percent of Scotland’s gross annual electricity consumption by 2020. 

Renewable energy experts Absolute Solar and Wind Ltd delivered the project on behalf of Scottish Water Horizons