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Specialist Secondment Services

• One of Britain’s premier multi-disciplinary engineering and
environmental consultancies.
• Employ 1300 staff across 20 offices in the UK and internationally.
• Turnover of £68.8m in 2013.
• Principal disciplines include:
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• Civil and Transportation
• Structural
• Environmental
• Mechanical and Electrical
• Health & Safety
• Sustainable Energy
• Secondment & Outsourcing
• Waste Management
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• Waterman’s Specialist Secondment Service
• Second staff into short or long-term roles
• Main areas of work include:
• Bridges
• Highways
• Building Surveying
• Building Structures
• Road Safety Audits
• Traffic
• Rail
• Transportation
• Infrastructure
• Drainage and Environment
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• Majority of staff are permanently employed by Waterman
• Contract employment also offered
• Staff are then outsourced to our extensive client base
• Clients include Local Authorities, National Organisations and
Private Consultants
• Staff are trained and appraised by Waterman Aspen
• Approved training schemes (ICE)
• Offering flexibility and excellent progression
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• Waterman employs over 500 staff in the civil engineering and
transportation sector (including rail) with £40m annual turnover.
• Integrated approach and depth of experience helps deliver
sustainable road and transportation projects.
• Extensive track record of working closely with public sector through
long-term framework agreements with local authorities, Transport
Scotland, Regional Development Agencies and the Highways Agency.
• Strong capability in transportation planning, traffic engineering and
environmental assessment.
• Extensive understanding of statutory and local government
procedures ensuring public consultation and inquiries are satisfied.
• Dedicated infrastructure and land engineering teams provide detailed
design services.
highways & transportation

• The village had an A road running through it so at the request of local
residents and councillors they created a give and take priority working
system with a mini roundabout at the central junction.
• As part of the works they were requested to undertake a resurfacing
scheme at the same time as well as general maintenance around the
village such as hedge cutting, gully emptying, some new footway
construction and replacement of damaged or missing signs. The works
should have taken 3 weeks on site but was completed on site in 6 days
to minimise disruption to residents and local businesses.
• The scheme has been hailed by both residents and councillors as a
massive success, already cutting vehicular speeds and volumes
through the village.
• Waterman Aspen secondee Ian was the lead designer, site engineer
and public liaison officer and dealt with the scheme from concept
through to completion on site.
project experience
church minshull traffic calming
Client: Cheshire East Council

• A Waterman Aspen staff member was seconded to Newham Council
and was working on some traffic related schemes just outside of the
Olympic Park.
• The scheme, which was awarded funding by LOCOG in January 2012,
was to enable safe crossing for approximately 450,000 plus
pedestrians visiting the Uniform Distribution and Accreditation Centre
(UDAC) before and during the Olympic Games.
• There was a mixture of Stewards and Technical Officers visiting the
centre during the Games and they were all encouraged to travel to the
site via public transport, which in this case was Star Lane DLR.
• The UDAC centre opened for operations on 16th April 2012 and
remained open for 160 days. At any one time it is estimated that there
were 900 people on site.
project experience
olympic park traffic schemes
Client: London Borough of Newham

• There were several problematic areas encountered during the build. The
placement of the piles both landward and seaward being driven into
some of the world’s hardest Basalt volcanic rock.
• There was many areas where everything had to be done differently to
the norm in order to keep all parties satisfied during the construction
phase. The majority of materials had to be brought in by sea to avoid
disturbance of the golf course from heavy haulage vehicles. For the
marine construction they had to employ the use of a huge jack up
platform that was as high as the surrounding cliffs.
• The slipway design is a thing of beauty in itself and natural stone work
has been placed to reflect the image of the original slipway which was
built around 1860. The building itself is as beautiful on the inside
constructed from oak arched glulam beams and the local stonemasons
have done a terrific job in making the building blend in to its Natural
surroundings.
project experience
porthdinllean lifeboat station
Client: Royal Haskoning

• 2 Waterman Aspen Area Managers worked on the Phase 2 public realm
works within Coventry City Centre which continues on from the initial
Phase 1 £10.7M Olympic Legacy project, involving a number of
Waterman Aspen staff at the time.
• In this second tranche of works Coventry CC are currently bidding for
European Regional Development Funding to extend the funding stream to
near £5M of public realm works.
• The successful completion of the city centre projects at the end of June
has resulted in an extremely positive reaction from residents, developers,
investors and visitors to the city, particularly during the Olympic Games
this summer. Phase 2 provides the council with an opportunity to continue
and enhance these public realm works to further encourage investment
and regeneration and complement works already completed. (top image
is an example of Phase 1 works).
project experience
phase 2 public realm works
Client: Coventry CC

Carmarthenshire County Council and the Welsh Assembly Government are
working as Joint Venture partners to promote the long term regeneration of
the whole of the Bury Port and Llanelli Coastline. Waterman have carried out
the following:
• Hydraulic analysis of the Nant Dyfaty, potential tidal flooding at Burry Port.
• Assessment of existing drainage infrastructure and pluvial flood risk,
strategic drainage design for foul and surface water discharges.
• Fluvial analysis carried out using FEH and Tuflow. The Assessment has
provided input to the Master plan and subsequently enabled mitigation
measures to be designed to promote 3no.mixed use development sites.
The Environment Agency originally showed the whole of the Master Plan
area to be at risk of flooding. Our detailed analysis has however revealed
this not to be the case and has permitted the progression of a Master Plan
for around £40m of mixed use development.
project experience
burry port master plan
Client: Camarthenshire County Council and Welsh Assembly Government
Value: £40 million

• In Warwickshire, queuing on the hard shoulder of the M40 occurs in the
morning peak periods due to traffic waiting to leave the motorway at
Junctions 12. Queues of up to 2km form at the junction which creates a
risk of high speed collisions due to the mix of stationary and fast
moving traffic in close proximity. The congestion at Junction 12 is due
to the very high volume of traffic travelling to the Jaguar-Land Rover
(JLR) and Aston Martin (AM) sites. There is a lack of capacity at the
motorway junction itself and on the Warwickshire CC’s network
between the motorway and the JLR and AM site entrances.
• Waterman Aspen secondees working with internal client, Transport
Planning Group, have designed an improvement to J12 and the route
from J12 to the site entrances that will solve the current congestion and
provide capacity for an extra 5000 jobs at JLR and AM. The scheme
includes a lengthening the J12 off slip, a dual carriageway section and
a number of signalised junctions along the route.
project experience
m40 junction 12 improvements
Client: Warwickshire CC

• Data showed emergency vehicles going through this busy signal
junction on ‘blue lights’ were involved in accidents - they could not
be seen by traffic approaching the green signal. Solution: remove
the vegetation from the visibility splay.
• Sketch showing enlarged pedestrian island proposal to improve
pedestrian crossing provision across side road.
• Sketch showing reduced corner radius, enlarged pedestrian island
and reduced crossing distances to improve pedestrian accessibility.
project experience
pedestrian and visibility improvement schemes
Client: Sheffield City Council

• A Waterman Aspen Area Manager is seconded to the Highways
Agency in Birmingham. He was recently involved in a project that saw
him working solidly through the night to dismantle Pegwell Brake
footbridge over the M5 near Bristol.
• The concrete footbridge, located between junctions 16 and 17, needed
to be demolished to make way for a new steel pedestrian bridge, which
will be suitable for high-sided vehicles to pass under when the
managed motorway is fully operational and the hard shoulder is used
as a running lane.
• The dismantling and removal of the 220-tonne bridge required the M5
to be closed in both directions for the duration of the work.
• The bridge was dismantled into two sections, each of which was
hoisted and removed by cranes. Using this method of removal avoided
excessive vibration due to the presence of a pipeline on the
northbound carriageway.
project experience
dismantling of pregwell footbridge, M5
Client: Highways Agency

• Leicestershire County Council’s living willow visibility screen is designed
to restrict visibility and hence reduce vehicle speeds on the A50 and
A511 approaches to the M1 Junction 22.
• The screen comprises of living willow shoots about 2m high attached
together to form panels. This provided a solution that was sympathetic to
the nature conservation value of the area at no extra cost, and without
having to blight the landscape with an uglier type barrier.
• Trial holes were dug at the site and revealed an old carriageway under
the planting area which was then removed. Maintaining the screen
should be relatively straightforward and details of the planting project
were featured in an article in Surveyor magazine.
• The effects of the screen were evaluated. The council monitored the site
to ascertain whether the barrier lengths are correct and the monitoring
will be ongoing. They also checked for congestion, speeds and
welcomed feedback from the local residents.
project experience
living willow visibility screen
Client: Leicestershire County Council

project experience
edinburgh tram project
Client: BAM Rail
• Waterman Aspen are currently working on the Edinburgh Trams Project
which is being built between Edinburgh Airport and the City Centre of
Edinburgh. The project is currently running late and is £200 million over
budget and wont now go to Leith as was originally contracted.
• Currently track has been laid on sections ready to receive it and that
includes the section leading to the airport, the large depot area at
Gogarburn, the old guided busway near Broomhouse, Haymarket
Station and all of Princes Street.
• Challenges for the future will include working close to Network Rail's
track north to Aberdeen, very brief access to road crossings at the
airport to enable the airport traffic to continue to flow, and working near
heavy traffic at South Gyle shopping centre. The work is varied and
constantly offering fresh challenges.

• Waterman has staff seconded into the Highways Agency and have
worked on the QMB on Princess Parkway bridge renovation scheme.
• The QMB is a big yellow machine that moves temporary concrete
barriers using a system of rollers. The 600m of barrier at Princess
Parkway are moved each evening to give working space to work on the
bridge leaving just one lane for traffic. The concrete barrier gives good
solid protection to the people working on the site and enough space to
be able to safely undertake the repair work in the bridge's concrete
boxes. Before the morning peak hour the barriers are moved back
again to leave two lanes for traffic. Each operation takes about 15
minutes with additional works to change the approach signs and cones
but the use of the QMB provided a solution to a challenging traffic
management problem.
• Without the QMB, the queues would have extended some 17 miles
round the M60 at peak times.
project experience
quick moveable barrier – M60 manchester

• Waterman staff are seconded to the Highways Agency and have worked
towards the delivery of the A419 Blunsdon Bypass.
• The £65.5m ECI project involved the construction of a 3.5km offline
bypass which consisted of an underbridge, 2 overbridges and 1 grade-
separated junction to improve journey time reliability through Blunsdon
and improve safety. The construction phase of the project commenced in
September 2006 and completed in March 2009.
• The A419 passes through the village of Blunsdon on the edge of
Swindon, causing considerable road safety concerns, congestion and
severe environmental issues. The construction of the two mile dual
carriageway will take traffic west of Blunsdon. The design of the new
bypass was based on sustainability and therefore the alignment was
developed to reduce the amount of material excavated and addressed
concerns of the local community to minimise the disruption to traffic
during construction. The removal of through traffic will significantly
improve life in the village.
project experience
A419 blunsdon bypass - swindon

• This shared use facility runs from Primrose Hill roundabout to Guys Cliffe
roundabout and is part of Sustrans National Cycle Network, Route 52
• The key objectives of the scheme were to improve the links for
pedestrians between Warwick, Leek Wooton and Kenilworth.
Warwickshire CC also wanted to increase the number of cyclists by 5%
before 2011. This was actually increased by 18% in the first year.
• The design criteria was to have the path 2.5m wide at all times with a 1m
verge where possible. Where there were restrictions the width was
reduced to 2m. Problems included the highway ditches near to the passing
bay at Saxon Mill and a highway fence that had to be installed to protect
cyclists and pedestrians.
• The carriageway near to Saxon Mill regularly flooded so with close
consultation with County Highways and Warwick District Council, the
gullies were unblocked and ditches cleared out.
• Construction took place over 12 weeks and was carried out under the LTP
Framework contract.
project experience
A429 coventry road shared footway / cycleway
Client: Warwickshire County Council

project experience
cabot circus footbridge - bristol
• The Cabot Circus footbridge links the multi-storey car park with a major
new retail development in Bristol city centre that other Waterman staff
have been working on. In keeping with many high profile footbridges in
prominent locations at prestigious developments, the bridge has a
distinctive sculpted form with a sweeping curve across Bond Street.
• The footway is enclosed within a glass canopy with a varying inclined
parallel roof, soffit profiles and side cladding to enhance the sweeping
curve form as it passes over the main road.The main structure comprises
a fully welded variable steel box deck, the shaped steel box beam
consisting of constant sloping web plates and two inclined soffit plates.
• The support columns are tapered, eccentrically inclined and alternately
reversed in direction to blend seamlessly with the deck structure and
footway canopy. Hidden spliced joints were provided close to the column
supports to facilitate on-site installation. The columns are fully welded to
the soffit of the steel box girder deck and bolted to the reinforced
concrete foundation base.

• Mixed use development on a 100-hectare brownfield site
incorporating 2 million square feet of office and industrial premises
and 1,500 houses..
• Waterman was commissioned to undertake the Transportation
Assessment for the development and the detailed design of the
£15M Fastrack public transport system.
• Fastrack is a quality bus based system providing direct links with
Dartford and Greenhithe rail stations and the Bluewater retail park.
• The Fastrack infrastructure includes over a mile of dedicated bus
carriageway, new bridge crossings over the M25 and A206, GPS
activated bus priority at all signalised junctions.
• Project named the winner in Transportation category at the ACE
Engineering Excellence Awards 2008.
fastrack, the bridge dartford, kent
Client: ProLogis / Dartford Borough Council
Value: £15m
project experience

testimonials
Highways Agency
“Fast, right and effective support through the Support Framework is what I expect to get and Waterman
Aspen have always been able to provide this to me. They have made sure that I get the staff support
that meets my specific needs for the project. Overall I find Waterman Aspen easy to do business with.
Birmingham City Council
“Following the culmination of working recently with yourself on a number of different work strands I
would like to formally extend my thanks to you for your support and most particularly your reactiveness.
Your willingness to go the “extra mile” to assist in sorting out issues affecting the highway has been
most effective and is, I think, a fine example of how partnership working can increase efficiency in a very
volatile and fast moving environment.… a sincere thank you.”
Cheshire West & Chester Council
“The service and staff provided by Waterman Aspen has been good. Regular visits by WA local
managers to the work place has meant that WA know our business, requirements and have ensured
that their staff are kept gainfully employed and ensure the well being of the staff WA provided to the
council. Waterman Aspen engineers have produced some good work and ask appropriate questions
when required.”
Environment Agency
“The Environment Agency have been very pleased with the support Waterman Aspen has provided to
the West Area Delivery Team. The team seconded into the Agency has provided expertise in AutoCAD,
GIS, Highways designs and general civil engineering which has been vital in progressing our fast track
Flood Risk Management Schemes though the business case and detailed design phases ready for
construction to start this summer. In addition to fitting well into the team they are delivering innovative
and cost effective solutions.”

• Responsive civil and transportation teams across
the UK with excellent links to international offices.
• Good understanding of national and local transport
policy.
• Excellent contacts with Network Rail, Transport for
London, Transport Scotland, Highways Agency,
and local authorities.
• Extensive experience in working for major
developers and identification of optimum transport
solutions.
• Experience in working with and managing
specialist consultants and suppliers.
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