Aviva Investors has provided £200 million ($269 million) of financing toward the design, build and maintenance of the Haweswater Aqueduct Resilience Programme (HARP) in Northwest England.
HARP is a significant project to undertake essential maintenance across the 110-kilometer (68-mile) Haweswater Aqueduct pipeline, which has supplied water from the Lake District to 2.5 million people across Cumbria, Lancashire and Greater Manchester for the past 60 years.
A consortium involving Equitix was awarded a £3 billion ($4 billion) contract for HARP. Equitix will work in partnership with STRABAG and GLIL Infrastructure for the duration of the project through the newly formed Cascade Infrastructure.
The project will involve replacing six sections of the Aqueduct’s underground tunnels spanning 52 kilometers (32 miles), which have been identified f
