New Arrival At PGE

The business has seen a recent arrival at PGE - ‘kilowhale’ high volume combination 2,600 gallon tanker with jetting and vacuum systems! This arrival increases our in-house drainage service capabilities and will help increase our workload.

Bronze Age Canoe

Work on the Milford Haven to Aberdulais pipeline being carried out by Daniel Contractor Limited’s sister company Land & Marine Project Engineering Limited with their partner NACAP was redirected in August after the discovery of a bronze Age canoe. Workers unearthed the canoe, believed to be 3,400 years old, during work on the pipeline.  

Partnering Works in North Wales

North Wales Daniel Contractor Limited has recently started work on a CSO scheme at Gyffin, Conwy and is due to start civils work on treatment works in Treborth as supply chain partner for Costain. DCL has been working directly with other Costain supply chain partners William Hughes and Bowens to deliver the DCWW capital works, even supplying a gang to William Hughes to facilitate this process.  

ADIPEC 2006

Daniel Contractor Limited’s sister company Land & Marine Project Engineering Limited has joined the Engineering Industries Council (EIC) along with 30 other EIC member companies to attend ADIPEC 2006, at the International Exhibition Centre, Abu Dhabi. The event took place between 5 and 8 November 2006 and is acclaimed to be the premier regional energy event in the Middle East with more than 1200 international and national companies from 50 different countries participating and spread over 4 large exhibition halls.  The event has provided the opportunity to learn more about the Middle East market, meet national and international companies and collect information on the current and future oil and gas projects planned for the region. The engineering services in both marine pipelines and tankage has proved to be of great interest to many of the visitors to the stand.

Thirlmere Aqueduct

Thirlmere Aqueduct was built 112 years ago and runs for 72 miles underground from a man-made reservoir near Keswick, Cumbria and provides around a million homes in the North West and Greater Manchester areas with over 200 million litres of water every day.  There are no pumps on the aqueduct and its takes just over a day to reach Manchester making its journey at around 4mph.  This Victorian structure has never before been completely drained since it first opened in 1894.... Until now! The restoration carried out by the company forms part of an on-going £350m project where more than 800km of major water mains will be cleaned, inspected and repaired over the next eight years. Specialist inspection teams dropped in to the aqueduct at more than 70 locations between the north and the south of the region.  This follows months of preparation to ensure that water is brought in from other sources to keep the taps flowing. A UU spokesman was quoted as saying “Water quality in the North West is now the best it’s ever been—and it’s down to projects like this one.”  

Wateraid 25th Anniversary

The Winter Palace’ was the theme for this year’s 25th Anniversary WaterAid Ball. The event was held at The Midland Hotel, Manchester and was well supported raising an amazing £132,000—their best total to date. This money will go towards helping WaterAid funded projects in Malawi, increasing vulnerable people’s access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene education and has resulted in a great transformation of lives. Daniel Contractors Limited sponsored the night with Andy Ball presenting the ‘Baboo shka Daniel Diamond’ to the lucky winner, Tim Caven from United Utilities.