July's top ten contract wins
Each month The Engineer picks 10 of the most notable contract news stories from our Business Briefs archive. This month’s selection includes UK and international contract wins from within the energy, aviation and construction sectors.
This week, power-systems provider ABB announced that it has won a contract to supply two medium-voltage drives to a water project that will form part of the water-supply system for the north west of England.
The drives will control pumping for the £125m West East Link Main, being built by J Murphy and Sons for United Utilities between Merseyside and Greater Manchester.
Meanwhile, the UK Technology Strategy Board offered support worth £7m to more than 35 British businesses and universities to help them to develop wave- and tidal-energy technologies.
The investment has been allocated through a collaborative research and development funding competition designed to support innovation in this area.
The nine research and development projects will focus on driving down the cost of energy while improving the reliability and performance of wave and tidal-stream energy devices.
Some of the projects will look to enhance the performance of existing devices, while others aim to develop novel breakthrough concepts.
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