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ISO 14001 Accreditation for WRc

WRc seeks 17025 UKAS Accreditation at its Laboratory

Investing in Swindon Pilot Plant

Flow Testing Facility Opens

Sahara® helping Thames Water to tackle leakage

EC reappoints WRc to support WFD implementation

Sahara® Surveys commissioned by United Utilities Water plc

Wales Industrial and Commercial Waste Survey

WRc Approved continues to demonstrate "fitness for purpose"

Online Water Efficiency Calculator for New Dwellings

Testing Automatic Meter Reading (AMR)

REACH expertise assists companies

Getting Value from Data

 

 

Welcome to the July edition of our Newsletter

 

 

WRc continues to help clients to meet existing challenges by developing methodologies for Getting Value from Data. Our Sahara® team, for example, continue to tackle leakage for Thames Water and United Utilities. We are also continuing to support the European Commission in the practical implementation of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) and are preparing for new challenges in Automatic Meter Reading (AMR), Water Efficiency and REACH.

 

At the same time, we continue to upgrade our own facilities. We have successfully gained ISO14001 Accreditation and have recently completed a major investment programme in our water treatment Pilot Plant as well as opening a new Flow Test facility.

 

Latest News

ISO 14001 Accreditation for WRc. ISO 14001 was first published as a standard in 1996 and specifies the requirements for an organisation's environmental management system. /more .. 

WRc seeks 17025 UKAS Accreditation at its laboratory. To support our clients, we are seeking to accredit our in-house organic waste testing activities through UKAS. /more .. 

Investing in Swindon Pilot Plant. WRc has recently completed a major programme of investment to upgrade facilities at its water treatment pilot plant in Swindon.  /more ..

New Flow Testing Facility opens at WRc. The new facility enables different combinations of drain/sewer to be tested for their sewer solid transport ability. /more ..

Sahara® helping Thames Water to tackle leakage. As part of their programme to tackle leakage in their trunk mains, Thames Water has awarded a contract to WRc Pipeline Inspection to provide a full-time Sahara®  Leak Location survey team . /more ..

WRc wins 7th year of support to the Commission for Water Framework Directive implementation. /more .. 

Sahara® surveys commissioned by United Utilities Water plc. /more ..

Wales Industrial and Commercial Waste Survey. WRc provided statistical support for the design, implementation and analysis of the new Industrial and Commercial (I&C) survey. /more .. 

WRc Approved continues to demonstrate "fitness for purpose".  The Approval Scheme continues to demonstrate it versatility and the experience of staff in assessing a variety of differing products.  /more .. 

Online Water Efficiency Calculator for new dwellings. WRc are launching an online water calculator for assessing water efficiency in new dwellings.  /more .. 

Testing Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) in support of procurement. WRc's experts worked with United Utilities plc to define a programme of laboratory and field tests covering meter performance, radio performance and battery life - a key factor in the business case for AMR. /more .. 

REACH expertise assists companies. Over the past two years the National Centre for Environmental Toxicology (NCET) has been working with a number of industrial and retail organisations to provide technical advice and consultancy relevant to the regulations. /more. 

Getting Value from Data. This Portfolio project is developing approaches that will assist companies in better targeting and realising benefit from data improvement programmes. /more ..

 

Events

WRc are pleased to sponsor the National CIWEM conferences held in 2009. The next sponsored event is CIWEM/CLG Conference: New Planning Policy to Manage Coastal Erosion Risk (15th September 2009). /more ..

WRc Essentials for Managing Drain Repair Two-Day Training Course (22 - 23 September 2009). /more ..

3rd European Water & Wastewater Conference (22-23 September 2009). Dave Sivil will present a paper on modelling covered sludge tanks entitled: "Sludge Tank Fugitive Odour Emissions". /more ..

 

Research

Portfolio Delivering smarter ways of doing things to save money or improve service levels lies at the heart of Portfolio; WRc’s successful collaborative research programme. The transfer of ownership pitch fibre pipes, energy savings from Activated sludge processes, non-household water efficiency and achieving integrated distribution management are just some of the topical projects featured in the latest Summer 09 catalogue.  For more information, please visit the Portfolio website or contact sara.bagshawe@wrcplc.co.uk

 

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