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Our projects: making a positive impact in the UK
Through our projects, we are making a positive impact in the UK - learn more about some of our completed and ongoing projects.
Brabazon
We are transforming the former Filton Airfield in north Bristol into a new town, Brabazon - an exciting new fully integrated place to live, work and play.
The airfield was the birthplace of Concorde and supersonic travel and home to more than 100 years of aviation history.
Brabazon is a place for enjoyment and entertainment, a centre of learning and a launchpad for business, a hub for industry and invention, with a beating social heart.
With a new live entertainment complex being built as part of the development, Brabazon will be a centre for the arts and culture, inspiring and entertaining in equal measure.
It will be home to thousands of people of every generation, while its green parks and shaded public squares will bind the community together.
Every aspect of the development will be at the forefront of low carbon, sustainable development.
YTL Live
Former home to all UK Concordes, the historic Brabazon Hangars are being transformed into a new live entertainment complex.
It will feature:
- the 20,000 capacity Aviva Arena
- 10,000 m² of conference and exhibition space
- an innovative digital entertainment hub.
The complex will host 140 live music events, conferences and exhibitions annually.
Sustainability will be centre stage, creating one of the most sustainable arenas in Europe, carbon neutral from day one.
Avonmouth water recycling centre
YTL Construction, on behalf of Wessex Water, is extending Avonmouth water recycling centre as part of a £100 million investment to meet the demands of a rapidly expanding city.
Bristol's water recycling centre treats sewage and wastewater from the city and the surrounding area, but with the local population projected to increase significantly in the next 20 years, further capacity is needed to meet these demands.
The expansion will allow a greater volume of sewage to be treated to the highest standard, while also protecting the environment by improving the quality of treated wastewater released into the Severn Estuary.
This increased treatment capacity will also play a role in reducing the automatic operation of storm overflows when rapidly increasing flows caused by sudden heavy storms can overwhelm the sewer system.
Started in January 2024, the project is expected to take five years to complete.
Holdenhurst water recycling centre
As the town of Bournemouth continues to grow, so too does the need to protect its popular beaches by increasing the capacity in its sewer system to reduce the number of discharges from storm overflows.
YTL Construction UK is providing an extra nine million litres of additional storage at Wessex Water's water recycling centre at Holdenhurst, by building a new 65 metre-long storm tank.
The extra storage will help reduce overflow operations to further enhance water quality, and the project also includes processes to remove nutrients to further protect rivers and coasts from excessive growths of algae that can damage ecology and wildlife.
The project is part of Wessex Water's commitment to progressively reducing storm overflow operation across its region - including investing £30 million on the south coast in Dorset.
Somerset Levels and Moors wetland
Creating new wetland habitats as an Integrated Constructed Wetland within the Somerset Levels and Moors - an internationally protected site renowned for its wetlands, birds and wildlife - is one of the projects YTL Construction will be working on next year on behalf of Wessex Water.
This £5 million investment just north of the village of Shapwick between Bridgwater and Glastonbury will use natural methods to help protect one of England's most important wildlife landscapes from the impact of nutrients.
Sited on more than 25 hectares of land owned by Wessex Water - and adjacent to the Hawk and Owl Trust's existing nature reserve - the two-part site would see the creation of an Integrated Constructed Wetland and a new grassland site.
The ambition is for this land to become a haven for wildlife under the stewardship of the Hawk and Owl Trust within the Somerset Wetlands National Nature Reserve.
Proposals have been submitted to Somerset Council for consideration and, if successful, the six-month construction project would begin in summer of 2026.
Lacock water supply enhancements
We've helped to protect the water supply network to rural communities in the centre of Wiltshire. Our £2.5 million scheme near the historic village of Lacock saw us replace more than two kilometres of water main to improve the reliability of Wessex Water's network and reduce the risk of further leaks.
The innovation and problem-solving skills of our project team meant the new plastic pipes were installed offline - causing minimal disruption to customers' supply - and helped the work overcome some unusual obstacles and challenges.
As well as directionally drilling underneath the River Avon and a sensitive woodland area to minimise environmental impact, we used pipe insertion to protect a nearby historic Iron Age hill fort along the route of the main during the nine-month project.
Our priority to try and ensure a minimal impact on the environment was achieved by reusing the 3,300 cubic metres of earth that was shifted during the main-laying within our own site.
We also reinstated hedgerows and carried out tree planting, while installing more than a kilometre of special fencing to protect Great Crested Newts during the work. Employing a full-time archaeologist to ensure the installation proceeded sensitively also helped us recover and preserve medieval-era tiles and pottery used in churches, monasteries and manor houses.