Commitment to working in partnership and a flexible approach to service development are fundamental to productive and enduring relationships.
These give us the opportunity to deliver multiple and/or significant changes to service provision. SUEZ has a strong track record of enhancing and expanding the services we provide over time.
This collaborative environment is also conducive to innovation, so we can more easily apply new lessons learned in other local authority areas, as well as the applications arising from our ongoing research projects and partnerships with external specialists.
There is also scope to achieve further incremental improvements through the application of Lean principles.
This is especially true of our public private partnership (PPP) contracts, which typically run for 25 years. These comprehensive arrangements cover the funding, design, construction and long-term operation of large-scale municipal recycling and waste treatment facilities. We now have a dozen public private partnerships in place.