Sizewell C has selected three construction companies to build a new nuclear plant in Suffolk, England.
Sizewell C has signed a Program Alliance Agreement with construction companies Balfour Beatty, Laing O’Rourke and Bouygues Travaux Publics to form the Civil Works Alliance, according to its Monday press release.
Within the Civil Works Alliance with Sizewell C, the consortium will be responsible for major parts of the project, including site groundwork, tunneling, main civil works and ancillary projects.
EDF Energy, a minority stakeholder in the Sizewell C plant, proposed the plan of the Sizewell C project to produce 3.2 gigawatts or 3,200 megawatts of electricity, approximately six million homes powered, with two European Pressurized Reactors (EPR) near the Sizewell B nuclear power plant in Suffolk. EPR is a Generation III+ pressurized water reactor.
The Civil Works Alliance is organized to have Sizewell C fixed in the Alliance as “Client Participant”. It will operate a Target Outturn Cost contract model, Sizewell C said in the release. The Target Outturn Cost model is a cost management approach used in construction where the client and contractor agree on a target cost for the project.