The client for the project is the Bradford and Calderdale Waste Partnership, which includes the City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council and Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council. Once detailed negotiations are concluded and financing in place, contract award and financial close are expected later this year.
Skanska will announce its investment in the project at financial close. After planning permission is achieved construction of the new facility will begin under a three-year programme, valued at around £170m. This will be undertaken by a 50/50 engineering, procurement and construction joint venture between Skanska UK and Aecom.
Once the new facility is completed, Waste Recycling Group (WRG), part of the Spanish construction group FCC, will run the facility for 25 years.
The new resource recovery facility (RRF) will accept and process all of Bradford and Calderdale’s residual waste and will house a mechanical treatment plant for the recovery of recyclable materials such as metals, plastics, paper, card and aggregates. The remaining waste will then be thermally treated in the energy recovery plant, producing electricity for the National Grid.
Key features of the new facility will include:
- the use of reliable, tested and flexible technology;
- the diversion of at least 90% of delivered waste from landfill;
- the separation of recyclable materials from residual waste;
- the recovery of enough energy to power the equivalent of around 20,000 homes;
- the provision for potential future development of a combined heat and power (CHP) scheme;
- provision of significant climate change and carbon savings when compared to sending waste to landfill.
Skanska Infrastructure Development president Steve Sams said: “This contract will offer a completely new approach to managing Bradford and Calderdale’s residual waste. Instead of sending household waste to landfill, which is environmentally unsustainable and increasingly expensive, it will be processed to extract the valuable recyclable materials whilst the remaining waste is converted into energy. The new resource recovery facility will be built in Bradford creating significant investment and work opportunities for the local community. Skanska now look forward to working closely with the local planning authority to secure planning approval later this year followed by construction commencement in the spring of 2013.”
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