World-class
engineering for the utility and energy industry

Industry-leading utilities and energy design, planning, project management and installation across the United Kingdom.

Proudly working alongside

The industry’s leading national utility and energy resource

from design and feasibility, through to commission

We specialise in complete turnkey utility and energy services managed by industry experts. With nearly 30 years of experience operating major framework contracts and projects of all sizes and complexities, our teams utilise leading processes and innovation to provide first class solutions from feasibility and design, construction and installation, through to commissioning and handover.

As well as operating for over a quarter of a century in the regulated water, telecoms and power markets, our Energy Services division provides high quality engineered power system network solutions to support the UK Government’s ambition of achieving Net Zero by 2050.

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FULL TURNKEY OPERATION

Our capabilities

From project conception to completion, our expert support comes as a fully managed turnkey service.

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Design and Feasibility

Collaborative creation of feasibility plans and design concepts for projects and work programmes in all sectors and size ranges.

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Planning and Scheduling

Planning, scheduling, coordinating and monitoring work activities, milestones and actions across a wide range of projects and task delivery workbanks utilising industry standard planning and programming tools and our own bespoke work management system, 'Brabus'.

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Stakeholder Communication

Through our Stakeholder Management approach and our ‘Brabus’ work management system, our project and contract teams are able to liaise with customers, clients and third party stakeholders to achieve efficient, timely and effective communication.

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Operational Delivery

Planning, building and efficiently delivering a huge variety of project, connections and network outputs and milestones to maintain our industry leading reputation of safe delivery.

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Commissioning and Handover

Full testing, commissioning, and handover of projects as necessary to ensure a smooth transition from construction to project in use by the end customer.

Our sectors

We work in a wide range of sectors from Power and Energy Transition, through to the Water and Telecoms industries. We operate above and below ground in infrastructure and non-infrastructure environments.

Our vastly experienced Horizontal Directional Drilling division operates across all of our sectors, ensuring that we can deal with the most difficult of engineering challenges. Our work within each sector has one thing in common; a continuous commitment to a high-quality, robust, client and customer focussed solution.

Water and Wastewater

Power

Rail

Telecoms

Trenchless

Energy Transition

About

OCU was formed in 1994 as a utility contractor based in Manchester. We have since developed into a leading national and international utility and civil engineering delivery partner of choice across the Power, Water, HDD and Telecoms sectors.

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Careers

As a national company specialising in a full range of utility and engineering services we have a whole host of career opportunities available. We are always looking for the most talented and motivated people to join our organisation in a wide range of roles.

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News

Keep up to date with the latest company news covering a range of topics including key acquisitions, trading updates, senior appointments and articles about what our people have been up to on major projects and community activities.

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