Fourth year of awards success

For the fourth year in succession, May Gurney Utility Services collected trenchless technology awards at the prestigious annual UKSTT dinner on 31 March at the Holiday Inn, Birmingham. This time round May Gurney won two out of the seven categories presented at the Annual Awards Dinner for 2005/06.

Les Metcalfe, Mains Rehabilitation Manager, South West Water said: "This was a superb evening for May Gurney and I congratulate the May Gurney team".

The Small Renovation Project Award was presented to May Gurney for its approach to the rehabilitation of South West Water's distribution network around the Marazion Marshes, a highly sensitive environmental area of Cornwall.

The second award was for the utilisation and trialling of Polymeric High Build (PUHB) on asbestos cement water mains, also for South West Water.

This is the fourth year that May Gurney Utility Services has won awards at the UKSTT Dinner and the second consecutive year that two awards have been collected. Last year Becky Gabriel won the Young Engineer award and the team also won the Small Renovation award for its approach to customer care on a sewer renovation project.

May Gurney Utility Services' Director Ian Edwards said: "It's a credit to the dedication of our planning and construction teams that the company has collected yet another handful of awards at this year's UKSTT dinner.

"At May Gurney we look to improve our levels of services to clients and their stakeholders across the utility markets and believe the use and development of trenchless technology continues to bring the benefits of driving down costs, reducing traffic disruption and offering a sound environmental approach.

"We don't intend to stand still, no doubt you will be seeing us again next year," he concluded.