The breadth and scale of the collaboration between Turner & Townsend and Yorkshire Water wowed the judges, with the supply chain bringing together 550 people from 12 organisations

Integrated Supply Chain of the year

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Yorkshire water鈥檚 asset unit delivery unit entered by Turner & Townsend

If the Treasury wants an example of how to deliver infrastructure projects efficiently it needs look no further than at the collaboration between Turner & Townsend and Yorkshire Water. The two firms are the brains behind Yorkshire Water鈥檚 Asset Delivery Unit, which over the past 15 years has delivered 拢75.9m of capital efficiencies. The unit brings together 550 people from 12 organisations, but the firms involved say the ethos is for workers to 鈥榣eave their company badges at the door鈥. The judges were impressed with the 鈥渟heer breadth and scale鈥 of the collaboration and said the firms had demonstrated a close relationship 鈥渨ith the longer term objectives from the supply chain鈥.

The @one Alliance

Entered by Mott MacDonald

The @one Alliance programme brings together eight firms to deliver standardised schemes. Client Anglican Water is seeing cost savings of up to 50% per project and time savings of up to 90% from the approach.

Connect Roads

Entered by Balfour Beatty

Connect Roads is a truly collaborative supply chain. Particular successes of the year were the delivery of the Carlisle Northern Development Route and the North West Fire & Rescue PFI project.

Consort Healthcare Fife

Entered by Balfour Beatty

During the delivery of Victoria Hospital in Fife, Consort put the client at the heart of the project, with tight collaboration at the design stage to ensure the hospital鈥檚 clinical needs were central to development of the site.

Mansell/UNITE

Entered by Mansell

Mansell has been working with student accommodation developer UNITE for 11 years. Over the past 12 months the partnership has been particularly adept at delivering modular building solutions on UNITE projects.

Southmead Hospital Supply Partner Agreement

Entered by SIG and Carillion

What set the Southmead Hospital project apart was the level of integration between Carillion and SIG. With construction underway and on course for completion in 2014, there is early evidence of cost efficiencies.