The Southern Water Supply Network project is an illustrative PHC project record based on Southern Water’s publicly stated AMP8 investment programme for 2025–2030. The programme represents a major step-up in water and wastewater infrastructure delivery, with investment directed toward improving service resilience, protecting rivers and seas, reducing storm overflow impact, upgrading treatment assets, developing new water resources and strengthening long-term environmental performance.
This PHC project is not an official Southern Water project record. It is a structured example showing how the PHC Service could support a large regulated infrastructure programme by improving visibility of risks, concerns, actions, evidence, decisions and delivery status across multiple projects, contractors, disciplines and stakeholder groups.
This proposal introduces the Project Health Control (PHC) Service as an independent governance and delivery-control tool for the illustrative Southern Water AMP8 Major Projects Risk Governance project. The model is based on public-domain understanding of Southern Water’s AMP8 delivery environment and is intended to explore how stronger project control could support a major regulated water and wastewater infrastructure programme. While not based on confidential information or any single live scheme, it reflects the real pressures of AMP8 delivery: high regulatory and environmental scrutiny, major engineering and construction interfaces, external partner dependency, significant schedule and cost exposure, customer and community impact, and the constant need for disciplined control of risks, actions, assumptions, opportunities and decisions.
The PHC Service is offered as a practical means of strengthening visibility, accountability and control across this kind of high-consequence infrastructure environment. Its purpose is not to replace Southern Water’s formal PMO, project controls, assurance, risk software, NEC contract processes or regulatory arrangements, but to reinforce them by ensuring that concerns are surfaced early, ownership is clear, mitigation actions are followed through, evidence is visible, and overall project health is reviewed in a structured and disciplined way.
The proposed PHC support would operate across three phases:
Southern Water AMP8 Major Projects Risk Governance is an illustrative project created within PHC Port to provide a realistic governance model for a major regulated water and wastewater infrastructure programme. It does not represent an official Southern Water project record and contains no confidential or proprietary information. Its purpose is to act as a structured reference point for exploring how the PHC Service could be applied to a complex, high-scrutiny, multi-stakeholder AMP8 delivery environment.
The model reflects the kinds of challenges typically associated with a major water-sector capital programme: regulatory and environmental obligations, construction and engineering uncertainty, multiple delivery partners, NEC contract interfaces, customer and community impact, significant schedule and cost exposure, and the need for disciplined control of risks, actions, assumptions, issues, opportunities and deliverables. Through this project, PHC tools such as concerns lists, 90-day plans, reports, gap plans, questions and risk maturity records can be developed in a way that mirrors the governance needs of a large, high-consequence infrastructure programme.
The aim is not to simulate engineering detail or claim inside knowledge of Southern Water’s live project portfolio, but to create a practical governance and assurance framework that helps test visibility, accountability, escalation, mitigation follow-up and monitoring routines. In that sense, the project serves as a shadow model for thinking through how robust project health control could support successful delivery in an AMP8 major-projects context.
The Southern Water AMP8 Major Projects Risk Governance project would involve a wide and demanding mix of parties typical of a major regulated water and wastewater infrastructure programme. These would include Southern Water’s client and sponsor leadership, major projects and PMO teams, project managers, engineering and design teams, environmental specialists, construction and commissioning teams, project controls personnel, planners, cost and change managers, commercial and procurement specialists, NEC contract administrators, operational teams, assurance functions, and a broad supply chain of contractors, consultants and specialist technical providers.
Depending on the project stage and delivery model, other important participants could include regulators, local authorities, environmental bodies, customer and community representatives, landowners, highways and utilities stakeholders, and organisations involved in nationally significant infrastructure, water resources, wastewater treatment, network resilience, planning, consenting or environmental compliance. Each of these parties would bring its own priorities, obligations and information flows, making clear governance, visibility and accountability essential.
The PHC Service would not replace the authority of those involved, or Southern Water’s existing PMO, risk, assurance, commercial or regulatory arrangements. Instead, it would provide a structured means of helping participants see concerns more clearly, track risks and mitigation actions more reliably, integrate partner inputs more consistently, and maintain stronger overall control across a complex, high-scrutiny and high-consequence AMP8 delivery environment.
The expected outcomes of applying the PHC Service to the Southern Water AMP8 Major Projects Risk Governance project would include:
| Category | Description | Total Cost |
|---|---|---|
| IT Services and Tooling | Filemaker, Mindmanager, Conferencing, Development Apps (one off contribution) | £1,900 |
| PHC Start Pack - Hardware (*1) | A set of 5 Single Board Computers, Monitor and UPS | £1,442 |
| PHC 7-Day Review (*2) | PHC Service for Pre-start Review (7 days) | £1,421 |
| PHC Setup (*2) | PHC Service during 2-month Setup Phase | £21,684 |
| PHC Continuation (*2) | PHC Service during 3-month Continuation Phase | £76,230 |
| Miscellaneous | Travel, training, insurance, and other variable costs | £1,000 |
| £103,677 |
| Category | Description | Total Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Single Board Computer Set x5 | Raspberry Pi 500, Mouse, hdmi cable, power cable) | £722 |
| Monitor x5 | Mini-Monitor (for RP500) | £480 |
| Site UPS | Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) for site computers. | £240 |
| £1,442 |
| Role | People | Hourly Rate | M1 | M2 | M3 | M4 | M5 | M6 | Total (GBP) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PHC Strategist | David Winter | £69.30 | 8 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | £14,414 |
| PHC Analyst | Abubakr Harakat | £46.20 | 10 | 80 | 80 | 120 | 120 | 120 | £24,486 |
| PHC Admin | Victor Williams [name2] | £26.95 | 15 | 80 | 80 | 360 | 360 | 360 | £33,822 |
| PHC Trainee | [name1] [name2] [name3] | £9.24 | 0 | 240 | 240 | 800 | 800 | 800 | £26,611 |
| Project People | [name1] [name2] [name3] | £46,20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | £0 |
| £1,421 | £10,842 | £10,842 | £25'410 | £25,410 | £25,410 | £99,333 | |||
Footnote - People Costs and PICS Eligibility: The people-related costs shown above relate to funded governance, delivery, leadership, and trainee roles agreed at the outset of the project. These paid hours are not eligible for PICS (Pro Bono Social Impact Credits). PICS applies only to unpaid or underpaid service contributed outside funded roles. PHC Service maintains a clear, auditable separation between funded work and any pro-bono contribution, preventing double recognition while ensuring transparency to funders.
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| Category | Month 1 | Month 2 | Month 3 | Month 4 | Month 5 | Month 6 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Tooling | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1,900 | 0 | 0 | 1,900 |
| PHC Start Pack | 0 | 0 | 1,442 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1,442 |
| People - Review | 1,421 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1,421 |
| People - Setup | 0 | 10,842 | 10,842 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21,684 |
| People - Continuation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25,410 | 25,410 | 25,410 | 76,230 |
| Miscellaneous | 0 | 1,000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1,000 |
| TOTAL | 1,421 | 11,842 | 12,284 | 27,310 | 25,410 | 25,410 | 103,677 |