West Midlands Mayor visits McAuliffe site

15 Feb 2024

McAuliffe has welcomed Mayor of the West Midlands, Andy Street, to its latest enabling project on the site of a new Energy from Waste (EfW) facility in Walsall.

The team is carrying out a full package of enabling works, having already spent 12 months working with client, Encyclis, and its advisors, to support the design and development of enabling groundworks.

Joined by Deputy Leader of Walsall Council, Adrian Andrew, the Mayor was shown how the brownfield site is being transformed ready for Hitachi Zosen Inova (HZI) to begin construction later this year.

The state-of-the-art facility is set to process up to 436,000 tonnes of the region’s residual waste every year and generate 49MW of baseload electricity – enough to power the equivalent of around 90,000 homes.

John McAuliffe, Group Managing Director at McAuliffe Group, said:

“It was a pleasure to welcome Andy to another of our West Midlands sites. The Mayor and West Midlands Combined Authority’s ‘brownfield first’ approach is doing great things to drive investment and set the region apart.”

As well as seeing the regeneration of disused industrial land, the project will create skilled jobs and enhance the West Midlands’ reputation as an emerging hub of green innovation.