Want to learn more about how the water sector is embracing additive manufacturing to overcome challenges in readiness for AMP8, and how United Utilities plan to provide a roadmap to overcoming them with the Water Industry Printfrastructure (WIP) project?

As technology for concrete and polymer printing has developed, so too have the opportunities for adoption within the water industry, particularly with regard to bespoke infrastructure designs. Over the last 5 years, United Utilities have been exploring the viability of additive manufacturing benefits with some success and now are building on this learning, to be more ambitious and scale up across the sector.

United Utilities has led a collaborative water sector project – called the Water Industry Printrastructure Project (WIP) with the support of Ofwat’s Water Breakthrough Challenge, and in partnership with ChangeMaker3D Manchester Metropolitan University (PrintCity) and Scottish Water, which completes early 2025.

Join Spring and Untied Utilities on Thursday, 28th November to hear how this project takes experience from current working practices and learnings from other sectors such as the rail industry and academia.

With the ever-increasing requirement to provide more detailed, unique and often resource intensive solutions, the WIP project provides a breakthrough toolbox of options that will help the water industry, and its customers plan and realise a more sustainable future for the implementation and maintenance of infrastructure assets.

“The water industry requires unprecedented levels of construction to deliver environmental improvements and maintain existing aging assets. We must address these challenges sustainably, efficiently and at the lowest cost for our customers. Our WIP project will move 3D printing from a good idea into a valuable tool for our business.” – Lisa Mansell, Chief Engineer (Innovation), United Utilities.

As the project approaches completion stages, this is a great chance to gain insight whilst the project has successfully matured, with plenty of learnings but also potential further opportunities being developed.

Sign up to this Spring showcase to hear directly from the project team on the learnings and challenges involved in this project, and how it will ultimately benefit the whole industry when it comes to reducing carbon outputs and providing resilient infrastructure.

If you or a colleague are interested in learning more about how this exciting project will make the construction process more efficient and environmentally friendly, sign up today!