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FP McCann Ltd

With sixteen divisions and twelve manufacturing plants, FP McCann is the UK’s largest precast concrete manufacture. They provide an extensive range of precast concrete solutions, including drainage, tanks, tunnels and shafts, rail, power and infrastructure, filter bed systems, walling, fencing, agricultural, architectural and structural building solutions, flooring, dock leveller pits and specialist precast products.

McCann will customise their solutions to ensure they create maximum value for your project, accommodating your site conditions, design requirements and construction needs.

The quality and reliability of McCann’s products and services are the foundation of their success. They are constantly developing and improving their solutions, whilst striving to exceed their customers’ expectations.

McCann’s extensive range of precast drainage products include pipes, wide wall/manhole chambers/soakways, cover slabs, gullies, headwalls, box culverts, fall arrest systems, house inspection chambers, catchpits, flow control and valve chambers, hydrodynamic separators, rain harvesting systems etc. They also provide bespoke multipurpose tank chambers and panel systems.

The geographical spread of their twelve modern precast manufacturing plants, coupled with their ability to deliver to their clients’ specifications on major projects across the UK and Ireland, has established McCann as a valuable and reliable partner.

At McCann, they promise to build strong, sustainable relationships with their stakeholders. By implementing their corporate values, they aim to deliver on this guarantee through their products, services, communications and, above all, the behaviour of their people. They recognise the importance of operating with integrity and apply high standards of corporate governance in the conduct of their business.

Longwood Treated Water Storage Tank (2025)

Ensuring security of a safe, sustainable supply of water to the Longwood Water Supply Zone

Ballyronan WwTW (2024)

A modern, sustainable wastewater treatment facility designed to meet increasingly stringent consents for discharging into Lough Neagh

Burnley WwTW Catchment Strategy (2024)

Case study 4: Delivering river water quality improvements to Pendle Water and River Calder through an integrated catchment solution

Campbeltown Flood Protection Scheme (2024)

Combining storm separation, attenuation and flood storage reservoir solutions to alleviate flooding in the town

Derrycrin WwTW (2024)

A challenging upgrade on a confined site providing sustainable treatment & environmental improvements to water quality in the Ballinderry River & Lough Neagh

Galmpton Catchment (2024)

WINEP bathing waters project in North Devon to reduce the risk of stormwater overwhelming outlying pumping stations

Project Pipeline - County Durham & Tees Valley (2024)

Update on construction of a large diameter strategic water main including a challenging crossing of the River Tees

Sluvad WTW (2024)

Removing manganese and iron through the first UK water industry application of jet mixing for coagulant mixing at a water treatment works

Stiles Way Trunk Main (2024)

Installation of new 315mm trunk main to provide an effective and sustainable alternative water supply to Randalstown and Antrim

The Woodlands Water Recycling Centre (2024)

The UK’s first treatment plant built for a housing developer specifically to meet Nutrient Neutrality requirements

Ards North Wastewater Improvement Scheme (2023)

The Ards Peninsula is a scenic area in County Down, situated on the north-east coast of Northern Ireland. It separates Strangford Lough from the north channel of the Irish Sea and its coastal towns and villages are popular with day trippers and caravanners alike. By 2020, the wastewater treatment works serving the villages of Carrowdore […]

Burnley WwTW Catchment Strategy (2023)

The Burnley integrated catchment scheme is one of United Utilities’ (UU) largest AMP7 projects with a value of £77m. The project is being delivered by UU’s construction delivery partner (CDP) framework by Advance-plus, a joint venture between MWH Treatment, J Murphy & Sons (JMS) and Stantec UK. The project commenced in 2020 and through two […]

Stroud Sewerage Strategy Project: Part 2 (2023)

The Stroud Sewerage Strategy is a major investment by Severn Trent which is required to overhaul of the existing sewer network by installing almost 3.5km of enlarged sewer pipe, separating surface water from the sewage network, creating additional storage with smart controls to hold stormwater back during large storm events before returning it to the […]

Derg WTW (2023)

NI Water’s Derg Water Treatment Works (WTW) is located in the north-west of Northern Ireland and produces on average 20 Ml/day, supplying water to approximately 10,000 homes to a wide area including Castlederg, Strabane, Omagh and their associated rural areas. In recent years there have been multiple exceedances of the pesticide, MCPA [(4-Chloro-2-methylphenoxy) acetic acid], […]

Tees & Central Strategic Pipeline: Phases 1 & 2 (2023)

With approximately 60km of new 800/900mm pipeline required to replace the existing potable water mains, some of which are over 150 years old, the Tees and Central Strategic Pipeline will directly improve water quality, network resilience and operability within the Tees Network. The pipeline will serve approximately 50,000 properties and link a number of strategic […]

Marhamchurch SPS (2023)

Marhamchurch is a small village around 2.4km south of Bude and has a population of just over 800. Sewage from this village is pumped to a nearby large sewage treatment works which processes the waste from Bude and the surrounding area. The existing Marhamchurch Sewage Pumping Station (SPS) was built around 50 years ago and […]

Meadow Road Stormwater Tank (2023)

Budleigh Salterton is a seaside town on the coast in east Devon, at the start of the World Heritage Jurassic Coast, with a population of just over 5,000 people. It has been described as a picturesque town with a two-mile pebble beach for the hardy swimmers braving the seas for a dip in the beautiful […]

Faringdon to Blunsdon Trunk Main Phase 2 (2023)

The water network in the western end of the Thames Valley Supply Area is dominated by local borehole water sources. Over time, population growth coupled with general environmental drivers to reduce reliance on groundwater sources in sensitive chalk stream areas, Thames Water has sought to improve supply resilience and deployable output by linking local sources […]

Northern Resilience Phase 3 (2022)

There is currently limited ability within the existing Northern Resource Zone to transfer water between WTW demand zones during onerous operating conditions or during a major incident at any one of the WTWs. At Carmoney WTW recent flooding at the River Faughan disabled the abstraction plant and raised the pollution risks associated with the nearby […]

North London Heat & Power Sewer Diversion (2022)

The North London Heat & Power Project is a ten-year, £1.2 billion programme to replace the current Edmonton energy from waste facility. It is being constructed on behalf of North London Waste Authority at the Edmonton EcoPark and includes a world-class Energy Recovery Facility (ERF), to generate energy from waste in the form of heat […]

High Frequency Risk Reduction: Rock View (2022)

In the PR19 agreement, water companies were encouraged to provide resolution to long-standing flooding problems being experienced by customers – but allowed a less prescriptive approach on the actual projects defined in the Water Company’s Price Review submission. This new process allowed the water companies a degree of discretion on the number and frequency of […]

High Frequency Risk Reduction: Moor Road (2022)

In the PR19 agreement, water companies were encouraged to provide resolution to long-standing flooding problems being experienced by customers – but allowed a less prescriptive approach on the actual projects defined in the Water Company’s Price Review submission. This new process allowed the water companies a degree of discretion on the number and frequency of […]

Rothbury STW (2022)

Rothbury Sewage Treatment Works is an unmanned Northumbrian Water site located 13 miles north-west of Morpeth, Northumberland. It is on the western valley slope of the River Coquet, a designated Site of Special Scientific Interest. The area is a popular year-round holiday destination with several caravan sites within the catchment. The original works dates from […]

Stroud Sewerage Strategy Project: Part 1 (2022)

Stroud is located in Gloucestershire near the southern boundary of the Severn Trent region between Gloucester and Bristol. The catchment is a mix of urban and rural areas and has a population of circa 67,000. The sewerage network is primarily a combined network with Wallbridge Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) being a key asset close to […]

Potters Way Sewer Rehabilitation (2023)

Potters Way, located in the Fengate area of Peterborough, is a recent housing development next to the A1139. The development was built on the grounds of the former Fengate Water Recycling Centre (WRC) which closed in 1988 following the construction of the Flag Fen WRC. In early December 2018, Anglian Water became aware of the […]

Queen Elizabeth II Reservoir (2022)

The Queen Elizabeth II (QEII) Reservoir is a raw water reservoir in South West London that is owned and operated by Thames Water. The reservoir holds over 19 million litres of water, equating to 10% of the raw water storage for London. Once treated, this provides clean potable drinking water for millions of people across […]

Burnley WwTW Catchment Strategy (2022)

The Burnley Integrated Catchment Scheme is one of United Utilities largest AMP7 projects with a value of over £60m which commenced in 2020. The project is being delivered by Advance-plus, a joint venture between MWH Treatment, J Murphy & Sons and Stantec UK; United Utilities’ framework construction delivery partner (CDP). In UK Water Projects 2021 […]

Drumaroad Clear Water Basin (2022)

Drumaroad Water Treatment Works (WTW) supplies water to many households throughout Northern Ireland. A 2013 report commissioned by NI Water identified the need for increased potable water storage facilities within the Drumaroad Supply Zone to reduce the risk of water shortages under certain network situations. As part of a £13m investment to modernise the existing water infrastructure […]

High Frequency Risk Reduction: Garstang Road (2021)

In the PR19 agreement, water companies were encouraged to provide resolution to long-standing flooding problems being experienced by customers – but allowed a less prescriptive approach on the actual projects defined in the Water Company’s (WCo’s) Price Review submission. This new process allowed WCo’s a degree of discretion on the number and frequency of flooding […]

Lowdham, Gunthorpe Road, Flood Alleviation (2021)

Lowdham is a village in Nottinghamshire that had a history of external and internal sewer flooding to properties, caused by hydraulic incapacity of the combined sewer network. A new 1400m3 offline storage tank was required along with catchment resilience work, which included working in partnership with the local authority to resolve surface water flooding, by […]

Counters Creek Flood Alleviation Scheme (2020)

The Counters Creek Flood Alleviation Scheme was developed by Thames Water in response to the widespread basement flooding caused by intense rainfall in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. The scheme aims to reduce flood risk for relevant basement properties through a series of interventions that […]

Maghaberry WwTW (2020)

Maghaberry Wastewater Treatment Works (WwTW) serves the Maghaberry area and the local prison in the Lisburn and Castlereagh District Council area, in Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland. The Works is under the control of NI Water and provides primary and secondary treatment. The Works was insufficiently sized to suit the growing local population and the expansion […]

Northumberland & Halfway SPS (2020)

Llanelli Wastewater Treatment Works (WwTW) in Llanelli, South Wales, serves the catchment’s 60,000 inhabitants and discharges treated effluent into the Loughor Estuary. The estuary is not only ecologically sensitive, but also a critical natural asset to the local community and to the wider South Wales region. It is a natural capital asset, home to commercial […]

Newark Waste and Water Improvement Project (2020)

Severn Trent have made a £60m investment in Newark-on-Trent upgrading the sewers and water supply network throughout the town. The project provided relief to some 400 homes and businesses from sewer flooding, and provided a robust water supply system which will serve the town for many years to come. The project included a 2.8km segmental […]

BRP - Raw Water Project - Birmingham Resilience Project (2020)

The Birmingham Resilience Project (BRP) is designed to provide a backup source of raw water from the River Severn to the water treatment works that serves Birmingham. During planned or unplanned outages of the primary water source, the raw water system will abstract water from the River Severn between October and March and supply 117 […]

BRP - Treated Water Project - Birmingham Resilience Project (2020)

Raw water has been collected in reservoirs in the Elan Valley in Wales and transferred 118km under gravity through an aqueduct to the water treatment works (WTW) in Birmingham for treatment and distribution to the city’s residents and industries since the beginning of the 20th century. The original infrastructure was constructed over 100 years ago, […]

Oldham & Royton Integrated Strategy (ORIS) (2020)

United Utilities is the regional water company for the North West of England, delivering water and wastewater services to 7m people from Cheshire to the Scottish border. Oldham WwTW and Royton WwTW are two major wastewater treatment works located in Oldham, to the north east of Manchester. The Oldham and Royton Integrated Strategy (ORIS) project […]

BRP - Treated Water Project - Birmingham Resilience Project (2019)

Since the beginning of the 20th century, raw water has been conveyed 118km from the Elan Valley in Wales, under gravity by aqueduct, to the water treatment works (WTW) in Birmingham for treatment and supply to the population of the city. The aqueduct has been in continuous service for over 100 years and requires some […]

Cropwell Bishop STW (2019)

Located to the south-east of Nottingham, Severn Trent Water’s Cropwell Bishop Sewage Treatment Works (STW) serves 700 residential premises in the village and a number of local businesses, including the Cropwell Bishop creamery, which contributes a significant phosphorous loading to the catchment. It also receives pumped sewage flows from the adjacent village of Cropwell Butler. […]

Killingworth & Longbenton Water Management Ph 3 (2019)

Since 2010 the Risk Management Authorities (RMAs) for the Tyneside Drainage Catchment have developed and implemented an area-based prioritisation process to identify and investigate those drainage areas at greatest risk of performance failure. The Killingworth, Longbenton and Forest Hall area was one of those areas identified, something supported by the published 2010 Strategic Flood Risk […]

Paisley Tunnel Project (2019)

Scottish Water’s £17m Paisley Environmental Project, which started in October 2016, is the largest of its kind that Scottish Water has ever made in Renfrewshire. The project is part of the company’s £250m, six-year programme of work, launched in 2013, to improve river water quality and the natural environment and tackle flooding across the Greater […]

Queens Bridge Siphons (2019)

During 2018, NI Water commenced refurbishment work to one of its critical assets, twin sewerage siphons, known as the Queens Bridge Siphons, in Belfast. The siphons transfer wastewater from a substantial proportion (circa 40,000 population) of the east of the City under the River Lagan to the Oxford Street Trunk Sewer for onward transfer to […]

Walsall Wood STW (2019)

Walsall Wood Sewage Treatment Works was a trickling filter site discharging into the Ford Brook, part of the River Tame catchment. Under the new Water Framework Directive, the site was required to comply with stringent new standards for phosphorus and ammonia levels in wastewater (BOD: 10 mg/l, NH3: 1.9 mg/l, Total P: 0.5 mg/l). The […]

Ballycastle Wastewater Project (2018)

The picturesque coastal town of Ballycastle is located on Northern Ireland’s scenic North Antrim Coast. This popular tourist spot attracts many visitors, who come to take in the beautiful scenery, as well as passing through on their trip along the famous Wild Atlantic Way. Visitors come from all over the world to see the nearby […]

Killingworth & Longbenton Water Management (2018)

Since 2010, the Risk Management Authorities (RMAs) for the Tyneside drainage catchment have developed and implemented an area-based prioritisation process to identify and investigate those drainage areas at greatest risk of performance failure. The Killingworth, Longbenton and Forest Hall area was one of those areas identified, something supported by the published 2010 Strategic Flood Risk […]

Llanfaethlu WwTW (2018)

Llanfaethlu Wastewater Treatment Works (WwTW) is situated to the north east of the village in Anglesey, North Wales and is owned and operated by Welsh Water. Constructed in the 1960s as a conventional gravitational treatment works, the process utilises primary settlement, stone media trickling filter and humus settlement discharging to a grass plot, together with […]

Nine Elms, Battersea Growth & SuDS (2018)

The Nine Elms redevelopment area within Battersea includes 21,000 new dwellings, office, leisure and retail space creating 8000 new jobs including the new US Embassy, a relocated New Covent Garden Market site and the Northern Line extension. An integrated water management study completed by Thames Water (TW) in partnership with the Greater London Authority, ARUP […]

Flamborough Head Sewage Pumping Station (2017)

The Flamborough Head Sewage Pumping Station (SPS) is located close to a scheduled monument, a Site of Special Scientific Interest, within a local nature reserve, adjacent to a Special Area of Conservation and Special Protection Area and is home to guillemots, puffins, dolphins and porpoises. The area is also a major tourist attraction, enticing thousands […]

Irvine Bypass Trunk Main (2017)

An existing, but ageing, 33”-36” diameter potable water main supplying over 40,000 customers in Ayrshire was identified by Scottish Water as requiring replacement. The existing pipeline was to be replaced with a new pipeline constructed of polyethylene (PE) pipe sections butt-fusion welded into 200m long pipe strings. Caledonia Water Alliance (CWA), a joint venture between […]

Netheridge STW (2017)

Netheridge Sewage Treatment Works (STW) is one of Severn Trent Water’s key sites in the south west of the region serving the city of Gloucester, discharging final effluent to the River Severn. The works currently serves a population equivalent of 197,940 which is predicted to increase to 218,815 by the 2034-35 design horizon. The site […]

Anchorsholme Park Storage (2016)

Anchorsholme Park is located on the coast 4 miles north of Blackpool Tower. The storage project is the first of two phases contributing to improving bathing waters on the Fylde coast. The objective of the initial phase is to complete the AMP5 obligations on the Fylde Coast of the “moving towards three spills per bathing […]

Gloves Lane (Blackwell) Terminal Pumping Station (2016)

Blackwell is a large village in the northeast of Derbyshire, close to the town of Alfreton, with a population of approximately 3,000 people. Within the village, at the bottom of the narrow Gloves Lane, Severn Trent Water’s terminal sewage pumping station (TPS) receives significant incoming flow from not only the village itself but also the […]

Fleetwood WwTW Stormwater Storage (2015)

In order to help reduce the spill frequency of untreated stormwater on the Fylde Coast in Lancashire, a new storage tank was required to provide an additional storage capacity of 15,000m3. The new tank was to be located at the existing Fleetwood WwTW and was completed within AMP5, delivered on programme and within budget. This […]