Farrer engineers complete environmental asset solutions.

Farrer's specialist capabilities combine asset knowledge and engineering services, to deliver maximum efficiency and benefit to clients. Part of Biwater Services Ltd, Farrer serves the water and wastewater, rail, airport, highway and local authority sectors. Farrer employs around 300 staff and operates from a nationwide and international network of offices.

Farrer's knowledge and experience helps organisations with the process of identifying and managing a wide variety of environmental assets. Whether an individual concern or across an institution, efficient asset management is the key to maximising financial return. A strategy to optimise asset performance is key to efficient investment planning, following the location and identification of assets, and full and detailed analysis of the current performance.

With growing environmental influences on all market sectors, Farrer knows that the thorough understanding of an asset base, combined with legislative and performance drivers, ensures the delivery of cost-effective management solutions.

Asset Identification

Farrer understands that the basis for successful asset management is an accurate and robust inventory. To achieve this, existing asset data must be qualified together with new asset data. Farrer uses market leading automated technologies to collect new asset data efficiently – GSM, handheld electronic collection. This data forms an inventory in the shape of a Geographic Information System (GIS) and allows assets to be spatially referenced. Farrer delivers a wide range of asset identification services including:

• Underground Utility Surveys

• Topographical Surveys including GPS

• Condition Surveys

• Data Inventory Design & Population

Asset Analysis

Farrer has developed in depth knowledge of the asset analysis and reporting environment, across multiple stakeholders. The key benefits of our analysis experience are:

• Standardisation of asset identification, information and processes involved in collection sustainability of data.

• Improved ability to meet regulatory requirements.

• Improved service delivery through regulatory compliance.

• Accurate revenue recovery, financial reporting and analysis.

• Better design and control over the capital programme.

• Reduced cost of service delivery. Improve service efficiency and productivity.

• Improved investment planning.

• Optimised resource planning and scheduling.

Asset Optimisation

Following analysis of asset condition and life, Farrer can develop investment profiles from initial solutions from modelling and optioneering. Farrer's skills allow these options to be developed through the design process, management and delivery of infrastructure and non-infrastructure projects, in-house.

Facility management is important to ensure that longevity of the asset life is realised from the point of commission. Farrer has market leading experience in the delivery of industrial and domestic wastewater treatment facilities which includes the delivery of single-site multi-stream waste treatment plants, representing a cost-effective solution in terms of construction, maintenance and ongoing management.