Severn Trent Water challenging site installation

“Site was attended early by Phil, Shaun, Ian and James. All equipped with appropriate PPE and Ian / Shaun had brought with them the appropriate MCS documentation for your haulage sub contractor for transport, delivery and craning off the pre-fabricated GRP panel.

Special point of mention must be made to Ian for his exemplary ability in coordinating the Traffic Management Banksman role on behalf of Sentridge. A difficult job whereby traffic (just off from a dual carriageway) and back onto single carriage way (40mph limit) had to be carefully stopped. This allowed the haulier driver to position the artic lorry carefully in between the site fence / access gate post and a BT fibre Optic Street furniture with overhead telephone lines.

With Ian’s Banksman assistance carefully navigated through these hazards. The experienced driver had made comment that he hadn’t seen such good Banksman abilities in a long time. It wasn’t easy!!!

Secondly, the amount of planning and measurements to not only assist STW in ensuring the freshly poured concrete slab was to the right dimensions, including ducting positions. GRP kiosk dimensions were made correctly and that the CEMA panels fitted nicely into the GRP Kiosk, massive credit must be given to Phil to ensure this happened to the level of precise detail. Quite impressive to be honest.”

Lee Finney, Energy Manager - Severn Trent Water

“Heroes don’t wear capes, they wear Sentridge hi-vis jackets”

Senior Team Manager Ground Water Reservoirs and Boosters -

Excellent response

“Thanks again for the excellent response and getting our line back up and running in quick time with replacement 55kW ABB Drive.”

Simon Henshaw, Engineering Manager - RPC-BPI

6% reduction in energy

“The biggest benefit from working with Sentridge Control, is the 6 percent reduction in energy. While being one of the most efficient companies in the industry, our electricity bill is more than £9 million per year and rising through increases in wholesale energy prices. Pumping water accounts for some 90 percent of this spend as we have the highest pumping head of any UK water utility because of the hilly terrain within our catchment area. So a 6 percent reduction on one pump in a system that was already very efficient is massive news for us. Electric motors are used to provide the power to turn the pumps that provide water to our homes and when 90% of your energy costs down to this one simple device it is clearly and area for potential improvement. Including the UK government’s Enhanced Capital Allowances (ECAs), we estimate the return on investment to be between five to six years. Given that the existing drive and motor were already fairly efficient and therefore squeezing more savings was always going to be difficult, then this is a very acceptable return.”

Keith Marshall, Supply Director - South Staffs Water

Faultless support

Alan Bolton, proprietor of Adford CNC - Adford CNC

Reliable local support

“ABB and Sentridge Control have given us the back up that we required. There are many pan-European suppliers out there. But what we really need is local support; we need engineers within our area; we need accessible spares within our area; and we need these 7 days a week, 24 hours a day. This is the most critical and deciding factor for us – without the ability to support us locally then we really are not interested.”

Ian Conway - Midland Quarry Products