Southampton: Trant wins £12m contract

Construction group Trant has won a £12 million design-and-build contract to provide the intake and outfall pipework for a new power station due to be built in Hampshire in four years time.

The main civil works for the new cooling water system will take 12 months and will see up to 65 employees from the Southampton-based firm on site.

It was awarded by industrial manufacturing giant Siemens on behalf of ESB International, an arm of the Irish Electricity Supply Board.

Trant, which has nearly 800 staff, also won a £2m contract last month to help build an electricity sub-station a few hundred metres

away from the where the gas turbine plant will be.

The power station is being built by a Southampton Water landmark – the futuristic, silver-domed Marchwood Incinerator.

Construction director Gerry Somers said: “This is the biggest civil engineering contract of its kind for us, and it’s great to have won the tender against some of the biggest players in the UK.”