Bradford University

University of East Anglia

Brunel University 

Imperial College

Burst trial collaboration between Bradford University, UEA and Yorkshire Water in March/ May 2001

Industrial Partners

• Anglian Water
• Pennon PLC (SWW) 
• Thames Water 
• Yorkshire Water
• UKWIR

Project Summary

Papers/ Publications

Related Links

Guestbook

Consortium (Internal)

Introduction
This web site is the home page for the 'LAPS' project - the acronym adopted to represent the WITE research consortium 'Monitoring, modelling and leakage management in water distribution networks'. It brings together information and links for the project and is intended as a means to disseminate information for both the project participants and to a wider interested audience.

Overview
The Water Infrastructure and Treatment Engineering (WITE) programme forms part of the 's flagship "Quality of Life" programme: Engineering for Infrastructure, the Environment and Healthcare. The Programme aims to contribute to a healthy and vibrant research community from which the water industry can draw expertise well beyond the Millennium. Up to £7 million has been made available for high quality research of relevance to the water utilities. The funding phase initially will be for 3 years from 1998-2001, and the first full projects supported under this have recently been awarded. The research will be carried out mainly by multidisciplinary teams in universities working in close collaboration with the water companies and other related industries. 

In response to the EPSRC WITE programme, four university teams have formed a research Consortium which will cover important inter-related aspects of monitoring, modelling and leakage management in the water distribution network. The Consortium’s strength lies in the wide range of expertise which will be brought to bear in the field, as well as the day to day sharing of insight, data, methods, and hardware system. The Consortium has been awarded research grants by the EPSRC, the value of which is £1.2 million over three years (1998-2001). The four teams in the consortium are from: the University of Bradford, the University of East Anglia, Brunel University and  Imperial College. A number of water companies are collaborating with and supporting the teams and the consortium has the backing of the Water Industry Research Organisation (UKWIR). The Project commenced June 1998. The consortium participated in CCWI99. The Second Annual Workshop was held at the Imperial College Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering on Wednesday December 13th 2000. The final workshop was held at at UKWIR premises in London on October 15th 2001 - the minutes of the Panel session, including project conclusions, are available here.