John Taylor & Sons - Hyder Consulting

John Taylor & sons: water engineering and sanitation, 1869 to 1987
project. The scope of works included four dams,
six wellfields and several major river intakes as
well as treatment plants, pipelines and reservoirs.
With their local consultants, the Malaysian Public
Works Department requested assistance from the
firm to oversee implementation of the project.
The two firms again secured a major appointment
in 1985 for the design and supervision of Kluang
water supply, involving a large treatment plant,
a 20km long 1.4m diameter transmission main,
a distribution system and storage reservoirs.
After their success in Egypt, Taylor Binnie &
Partners continued to work together for ISKI, the
Istanbul Water & Sewerage Authority in Turkey.
Together with local consultants UBM, they
undertook for the part-World Bank funded
project the design and construction supervision
of a new sewerage disposal system that had
already been part-designed by other consultants.
This was followed by another joint venture
project on Istanbul’s Asian side. It involved the
Rural Water Supply Project, treated
water pumphouse, Malaysia.
Rural Water Supply Project,
permaglass storage tank, Malaysia.
master plan and design for upgrading various
proposed and existing pre-treatment works to
comply with the recently adopted EU policy to
ensure that all marine discharges should receive
“full treatment”. The scheme was designed to
serve a population of 4.7 million and included
construction of a 29km long, 4.5m diameter
tunnel and other sewers flowing to Riva on the
south-east coast of the Black Sea. Here a 40m
deep pumping station raised the sewage to a
tertiary activated sludge treatment plant prior to
a discharge to the Black Sea via a 5km long sea
outfall.
Due recognition of the outstanding
contribution that John Taylor & Sons had made
around the world to development of water
supply services and sanitation for diverse
populations came when the firm was awarded
the Queen’s Award to Industry for Export
Achievement in 1978.
John Taylor & Sons’ sphere of influence had
spread east to Thailand in the 1970s, to Malaysia
in the 1980s and to Hong Kong in 1982, where
they worked with Freeman Fox & Partners who
had an established local presence. After working
together successfully for some years, the two
firms merged to become Acer Consultants.
Istanbul Wastewater project, Turkey.
Tunnel sewer,
Turkey.
Rural Water Supply Project, Upper Maur Dam, Malaysia.
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