On 18 February, Best Companies hosted their online live event unveiling their league table for regional, sector and national winners. The results follow an employee engagement survey carried out with Best Companies in 2021. Best Companies big quarterly reveal showed that Murphy improved in all categories, with the company recognised as: UK’s 3rd Best Big Company to work London’s 2nd Best Big Company to work for, and Construction and Engineering’s 2nd Best Company to work A fantastic result and a step forward to achieving Murphy’s People strategic objective in their Murphy at 75 strategy. This is real testament to the passion and commitment of Murphy’s multi-skilled, direct-delivery teams.
Murphy has been awarded one of three multi-billion-pound contracts by Network Rail for the South of England, worth up to £7bn for Control Period 6 (2019-2024). The framework to deliver renewals and enhancements in Anglia, South East and Wessex has been awarded to Murphy (Anglia), BAM Nuttall Limited (South East) and Geoffrey Osborne Limited (Wessex) who will act as strategic delivery partners throughout CP6. The multi-discipline framework will deliver projects of varying value, including stations, buildings and civils, electrifications, power, signalling, telecommunications and track. This is initially in place for a five-year period but has the option of three one-year extensions if required. Cameron Burns, Commercial Director Southern region, said: “Over the last few years we have made a shift towards working more collaboratively and closer to fewer key contractors, which has allowed us to deliver major improvements for passengers successfully and safely. Given that we are delivering in some of Britain’s busiest stations and on some of the most used routes into the capital, our ability to upgrade the railway with minimal impact on passengers is increasingly important. We want to build on this success for CP6 and the relationships we have with our suppliers, and we look forward to working with them all going forward.” John Dowsett, Managing Director for Infrastructure at Osborne, said: “Winning this CP6 framework is highly significant for us – it sees us further strengthening our rail portfolio and continuing to work with Network Rail, who recognise and value the collaborative approach we bring.” John Murphy, CEO of J Murphy and Sons said: “We are excited to be part of Network Rail’s strategic partnership to deliver CP6. This award continues our long partnership with them in renewing and enhancing infrastructure throughout the UK and will give us the chance to work together and drive innovation and improvements. It was a real team effort across Murphy, and the framework will leverage our engineering and rail capabilities across our whole business. We are looking forward to getting started and delivering safely and efficiently to benefit rail passengers across the Anglia route.” Huw Jones, BAM’s Rail Director said: “We’re proud of the contribution we’ve made and are excited to be continuing our collaboration with Network Rail, and our supply chain, for the safe delivery of exceptional rail infrastructure. This confirmation of our continued involvement allows us to invest with confidence in developing skills, our innovation pipeline and technology. We look forward to playing our part, demonstrating BAM’s commitment to creating sustainable solutions that enhance lives – including rail passengers and the communities where we work.” Notes to editors: The multidiscipline framework is set up to deliver both renewals and enhancements. The estimated renewals spend on each contract is outlined below: Route CP6 renewals estimated value Anglia £340m – £460m Southeast £640m – £860m Wessex £280m – £370m Total £1.26bn – £1.69bn The estimated enhancements spend on each contract is outlined below: Route CP6 Enhancements Anglia Up to £810m Southeast Up to £1.06bn Wessex Up to £850m Total Up to £2.72bn Network Rail’s delivery arm for renewals and projects, Infrastructure Projects (IP) organises itself into four regional areas – Scotland North East, Central, Southern and Western and Wales, and national programmes for Signalling, Track and the pan regional Northern Programme. The tender and procurement process for CP6 was intentionally phased to help improve efficiency for both Network Rail and the supply chain. Southern is the second region to announce its contract awards. Last month, Scotland and North East awarded two lots within their framework to Story Contracting and AmcoGiffen. The framework award is one of the most substantial of Network Rail’s CP6 contracts to be let following the Office of Rail and Road’s final determination, which confirmed £35bn of funding for rail maintenance and renewals.
J. Murphy & Sons Ltd (“Murphy” or “the Group”) is pleased to announce that we have been selected to design and deliver the HVDC Export Cable Onshore Civil works in relation to both the Sofia and Dogger Bank C offshore wind projects.Sofia Offshore Wind Farm and Dogger Bank C, the third phase of Dogger Bank Wind Farm are both located on Dogger Bank, more than 195 kilometres from the North East coast of England, with their export cables coming to shore in Teesside, between Redcar and Marske-by-the-Sea.Sofia is 100% owned by RWE, and Dogger Bank Wind Farm is a joint venture between SSE Renewables, Equinor and Eni. Although they are owned by different companies, the developers are working jointly at the site of their adjacent converter stations and along the shared onshore cable route. The projects’ offshore HVDC export cables will connect to onshore cables that will run 7 kilometres to a new converter station – one for each project – now under construction to the North East of Lazenby. Each project will have a further 2 kilometres of HVAC cables to transport power to the existing National Grid substation at Lackenby, where it will enter the national grid. Under the terms of this award, Murphy will work to install the onshore cable ducts which connect the landfall site in Redcar to the HVDC Onshore Converter station. The Group will also work with local colleges and suppliers to recruit local resources and talent.The main scope of works for Murphy include:• Detailed engineering and design for the works• Ecological Management• Civil infrastructure installation• Engineering and installation of crossings The main civils works will commence in March 2022 and run through until the end of 2024. Once operational these two offshore wind projects will generate enough green power to supply all of the North East’s electricity needs every year. The work builds on Murphy’s proven track record in providing vital cabling to key infrastructure assets, working across traditional power, new nuclear and renewable energy areas. In recent years, the Group has amassed significant experience in the fields of onshore cable civils work and cable installation, working on civils and cable install on projects such as the Triton Knoll, Hornsea Project One and Beatrice wind farms.Jon Downs, Managing Director of Murphy’s Energy division said: “We are delighted to be appointed as the High Voltage Cable Civils delivery partner for two of the country’s most important strategic renewable energy projects. As Murphy Energy, we are committed to helping our customers accelerate the clean energy transition on our journey towards Net Zero and to deliver 40GW by 2030. These projects are a key element of this journey and we are excited to be playing such a pivotal role in their delivery.” Sofia Project Director Matthew Swanwick said: “The appointment of Murphy marks another significant milestone for the project and the start of the cable route civils works will signal a new and visible phase of onshore construction. We will build on RWE’s positive working relationship with Murphy and look forward to our ongoing cooperation with Dogger Bank C and to continued good relationships with our stakeholders and the local community.”Dogger Bank Wind Farm Onshore Work Package Manager for the third phase of the project, Stephen Reynolds, said: “We welcome Murphy and look forward to working with them, alongside Sofia Offshore Wind Farm, as we develop the onshore infrastructure for these significant renewable energy projects.”
