Projects of Note

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Projects of Note

• Singapore International Water Week22-26 June 2009

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Hyperlinks to Projects of Note

• SINGAPORE
• Changi NEWater Plant
• Lower Seletar Waterworks
• Jurong Membrane Bioreactor Plant
• SingSpring Desalination Plant
• Chestnut Avenue Waterworks
• Upgrading of the Choa Chu Kang Waterworks

• AUSTRALIA
• Bundamba Advanced WTP, Stage 1A
• W2W Alliance
• Eastern Treatment Plant Tertiary Upgrade Project
  Phase 1
• Wanneroo Groundwater Treatment Plant

• HONG KONG
• Tai Po Water Treatment Works and Aqueducts
  Project
• Water Mains Rehabilitation Project Stages 1, 2
• Tai Hang Tung Storm Water Storage Tank
• Kai Tak Storm Water Transfer Tunnel
• Wan Chai East and North Point Sewerage Project
• Drainage Master Plans
• Engineering Strategy on Total Water Management
  for Hong Kong

• USA
• Lake Pleasant Water Treatment Plant
• Columbia Heights Membrane Filtration Plant
• Scottsdale Water Campus

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Changi NEWater Plant Client Sembcorp Utilities

• 228 MLD NEWater plant in Singapore
• Design-Build-Own-Operate
• Singapores fifth and largest recycled plant
• Unique design that reduces land use and minimizes
  construction costs
• Advanced water treatment processes MF/UF-RO-UV
  technologies

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SINGAPORE
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Changi NEWater Plant Client Sembcorp Utilities

• The major design elements are equalization tanks,
  feedwater pump and MF feed pumps
• Water treatment facilities include in-line
  micro-strainers, mircofiltration (MF), two-pass
  reverse osmosis (RO), and UV NEWater storage
  tanks
• NEWater pumping station as part of the PUB
  handover facilities, chemical feed storage
  facilities, and associated electrical and control
  facilities

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SINGAPORE
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Changi NEWater Plant Client Sembcorp Utilities

• BV's roles include
• Detailed engineering design services
• Startup support and commissioning

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SINGAPORE
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Lower Seletar Waterworks Client PUB

• 273 MLD waterworks and ancillary facilities in
  Singapore
• First plant in Singapore to use on-site
  generation of chlorine
• If pressure membranes are selected, it would be
  the largest in the world for drinking water
  application

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SINGAPORE
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Lower Seletar Waterworks Client PUB

• BV's roles include
• Study
• Design
• Construction supervision

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SINGAPORE
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Jurong Membrane Bioreactor (MBR) Plant Client
PUB

• 68 MLD MBR plant in Singapore
• Largest MBR plant in Singapore and one of the
  most significant in the Asia Pacific region

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SINGAPORE
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Jurong Membrane Bioreactor (MBR) Plant Client
PUB

• BV's roles include
• Study
• Design
• Construction supervision

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SINGAPORE
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SingSpring Desalination Plant Client SingSpring

• 136 MLD desalination plant in Singapore
• Build-Own-Operate
• Feedwater TDS 28,000-35,000 mg/l
• First pass seawater RO partial second pass
  brackish water RO
• Brine disposal ocean

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SINGAPORE
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SingSpring Desalination Plant Client SingSpring

• Open seawater intake structure
• Two separate inlet channels equipped with
  mechanical rake coarse screens
• 3D digital rendering of pipe gallery design

AS BUILT
PRELIMINARY DESIGN, 3D RENDERING
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SINGAPORE
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SingSpring Desalination Plant Client SingSpring

• DAF facility removes oil, grease, and suspended
  solids prior to primary gravity sand filters
• Dechlorination chemicals added upstream and
  downstream of the cartridge filters leading to
  the RO plant
• pH adjustments also required downstream of
  cartridge filters

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SINGAPORE
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SingSpring Desalination Plant Client SingSpring

• First pass RO removes dissolved solids from the
  flow
• Second pass RO reduces boron level in treated
  water
• Treated water tanks pump treated water into the
  main transmission line
• Energy recovery system minimizes operating costs
• Pelton wheel system with pressure exchange energy
  recovery

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SINGAPORE
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SingSpring Desalination Plant Client SingSpring

• BV's roles include
• Pilot testing
• Design
• Permitting
• Construction services
• OM assistance

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SINGAPORE
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Chestnut Avenue Waterworks Client PUB

• 273 MLD water treatment plant in Singapore
• Grand Prize 2003 Design Excellence Awards,
  ACES
• Distinction Water Treatment Plant of the Year,
  2003 Global Water Awards
• At the time was the largest potable water
  treatment facility in the world incorporating
  membrane filtration
• Enhanced coagulation using alum followed by
  immersed ultra-filtration membranes

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SINGAPORE
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Chestnut Avenue Waterworks Client PUB

• The plant is a perfect example of the application
  of sound but simple engineering design and
  out-of-the box thinking to meet the site
  challenges of limited footprint and energy costs

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SINGAPORE
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Chestnut Avenue Waterworks Client PUB

• BV's roles include
• Study
• Design
• Construction supervision
• Commissioning

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SINGAPORE
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Upgrading of the Choa Chu Kang Waterworks
Client PUB

• 364 MLD water treatment plant in Singapore
• Maximizes hydraulic profile to reduce energy
  consumption
• One of the largest retrofit of an immersed
  membrane plant in the world whilst the plant was
  still in production
• Cutting-edge application of gravity-driven
  membranes

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SINGAPORE
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Upgrading of the Choa Chu Kang Waterworks
Client PUB

• Undertook feasibility study into upgrading the
  364 MLD works for compliance with WHO drinking
  water standards
• The process options study included combinations
  of membrane filtration, ozonation, BAC,
  chlorination, hydrogen peroxide dosing
• Pilot plant trials were carried out on membranes
  and the lessons applied to inform the detailed
  design
• BV carried out cost estimation for all options

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SINGAPORE
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Upgrading of the Choa Chu Kang Waterworks
Client PUB

• BV's roles include
• Design
• Construction supervision
• Commissioning

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SINGAPORE
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Bundamba Advanced Water Treatment Plant, Stage
1A (BV and Thiess Joint Venture) Client
Western Corridor Recycled Water Pty Ltd.

• 66 MLD AWTP in Queensland, Australia
• BV/Thiess joint venture in alliance with
  Western CorridorRecycled Water
• 2007 Global Water Project of the Year - Global
  Water Intelligence
• Largest recycled water plant in southern
  hemisphere
• First application of 450mm (18) diameter Reverse
  Osmosis membranes on a large scale

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AUSTRALIA
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Bundamba Advanced Water Treatment Plant, Stage 1A
(BV and Thiess Joint Venture) Client Western
Corridor Recycled Water Pty Ltd.

• The team that worked on Bundamba AWTP had to meet
  a very aggressive schedule by any standard
  worldwide

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AUSTRALIA
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Bundamba Advanced Water Treatment Plant, Stage 1A
(BV and Thiess Joint Venture) Client Western
Corridor Recycled Water Pty Ltd.

• By end of July 2007 over 15,600 m3 of concrete
  had been poured, MF/RO commissioning started and
  over 730,000 staff hours had been clocked up on
  site since inception

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AUSTRALIA
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Bundamba Advanced Water Treatment Plant, Stage 1A
(BV and Thiess Joint Venture) Client Western
Corridor Recycled Water Pty Ltd.

• The Bundamba AWTP is the first application of 450
  mm diameter (18-in) RO membranes on a large scale
• It is also the first full scale water reclamation
  facility designed to meet stringent nitrogen
  disinfection and emerging contaminant quality
  parameters

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AUSTRALIA
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Bundamba Advanced Water Treatment Plant, Stage 1A
(BV and Thiess Joint Venture) Client Western
Corridor Recycled Water Pty Ltd.

• The team successfully delivered first water at
  the end of August 2007, faster than many thought
  possible

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AUSTRALIA
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Bundamba Advanced Water Treatment Plant, Stage 1A
(BV and Thiess Joint Venture) Client Western
Corridor Recycled Water Pty Ltd.

• The main treatment steps of ultrafiltration
  (UF) membranes, reverse-osmosis (RO) membranes
  followed by advanced oxidation using UV
  irradiation and hydrogen peroxide make up the
  first large scale Indirect Potable Reuse (IPR)
  Scheme in Australia

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AUSTRALIA
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Bundamba Advanced Water Treatment Plant, Stage 1A
(BV and Thiess Joint Venture) Client Western
Corridor Recycled Water Pty Ltd.

• Black Veatch/Thiess Joint Venture executed the
  project outside of historical and regional
  boundaries using a truly Integrated Global
  Workforce to enable detailed design to be
  completed to support the ambitious schedule

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AUSTRALIA
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Bundamba Advanced Water Treatment Plant, Stage 1A
(BV and Thiess Joint Venture) Client Western
Corridor Recycled Water Pty Ltd.

• Safety record on Stage 1A of the Bundamba AWTP
  was exemplary. In September 2007 the project
  exceeded 1 million person hours of work with not
  one lost time injury

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AUSTRALIA
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W2W Alliance Client Water Corporation of
Western Australia

• A 352M to upgrade the three largest wastewater
  treatment plants in Perth, Australia
• EPC contract
• Process expertise, integrated global workforce
  for engineering delivery, global procurement,
  planning and scheduling construction and
  commissioning in operational plants

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AUSTRALIA
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W2W Alliance Client Water Corporation of
Western Australia

• The odour control facilities will be the first
  in WA to implement bio-scrubber technology to
  reduce the chemical requirements in the odour
  scrubbing process

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AUSTRALIA
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W2W Alliance Client Water Corporation of
Western Australia

• BV's roles include
• Engineering, Procurement, Construction
• Commissioning services

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AUSTRALIA
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Eastern Treatment Plant Tertiary Upgrade Project
Phase 1 Option Design, Costing and Assessment
Client Melbourne Water

• ETP is one of the largest wastewater treatment
  plants in Australia
• Currently an activated sludge plant producing
  Class C effluent
• The Tertiary Upgrade will up to 700 MLD of
  secondary effluent to Class A standard
• Upgrade will use tertiary filtration and enhanced
  disinfection treatment processes
• Aesthetic parameters will also be addressed

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AUSTRALIA
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Eastern Treatment Plant Tertiary Upgrade Project
Phase 1 Option Design, Costing and Assessment
Client Melbourne Water

• BV's roles include
• Trials plant evaluation and process design
• Preliminary engineering design
• Cost-estimation - Capex and Opex
• Options evaluation and assessment

AUSTRALIA
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Wanneroo Groundwater Treatment Plant Client
Water Corporation of Western Australia

• 225 MLD facility in Australia
• Engineer-Procure-Construct
• Employs conventional aeration, coagulation,
  sedimentation and dual media filtration processes
  to treat source water

Photo credit http//water-technology.net
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AUSTRALIA
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Wanneroo Groundwater Treatment Plant Client
Water Corporation of Western Australia

• The Project Cost at completion was within 1 of
  the budgeted EPC Cost
• Clear program milestones and careful advance
  planning of plant shutdowns and tie-ins to the
  existing operating plant resulted in completion
  of the construction phase in early November 2001,
  the target date
• BVs roles include
• Design
• Construction
• Commissioning management

AUSTRALIA
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Tai Po Water Treatment Works and Aqueducts
Project Client Water Supplies Department

• Ultimate capacity of 1200 MLD in Hong Kong, SAR
• Global Grand Prize in the Design Category IWA
  Project Innovation Awards in 2006
• Installation of aerated biological filtration,
  one of the largest in the world
• First major use of dissolved air flotation (DAF)
  in Hong Kong

HONG KONG
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Tai Po Water Treatment Works and Aqueducts
Project Client Water Supplies Department

• Major water treatment works, pumping stations,
  reservoirs and associated aqueducts study to
  maximise treatment capacity within the available
  site, leading to detailed design, preparation of
  tender documents and construction supervision

HONG KONG
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Tai Po Water Treatment Works and Aqueducts
Project Client Water Supplies Department

• Pilot plant work to verify use of biological
  filtration for ammonia removal
• Primary service reservoir 40 000 m3, ultimate
  capacity 200 000 m3
• Design criteria include for seismic conditions,
  design takes account of steeply sloping ground
  and congested site

HONG KONG
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Tai Po Water Treatment Works and Aqueducts
Project Client Water Supplies Department

• Contract management including supervision of
  works on site, programme and progress control,
  control of interim and final payments, design
  amendments for unforeseen conditions, claims
  review and assessment, forecast of final
  contract price
• Project management, including procurement,
  programme control, continuous review of
  contractors progress, Critical Path analysis,
  document control

HONG KONG
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Tai Po Water Treatment Works and Aqueducts
Project Client Water Supplies Department

• BV's roles include
• Investigation
• Design
• Construction supervision

HONG KONG
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Water Mains Rehabilitation Project Stages 1 and 2
Client Water Supplies Department

• A total of 1,030 km of watermains in Stage 1, 2
  and 4 respectively from 2000 to 2015
• 540 km of watermains for rehabilitation in Hong
  Kong, SAR
• Pipe sizes ranging from DN20 up to DN2300
• Use of innovative techniques, including the
  largest swagelining operation ever undertaken in
  Asia, BV is replacing and rehabilitating Hong
  Kong watermains and saving time and costs
• Use of trenchless technology (on-line rehab) for
  over 7km of large trunk watermains installed
  under an existing live road tunnel
• Condition assessment of watermains using
  intrusive techniques

HONG KONG
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Water Mains Rehabilitation Project Stages 1 and
2 Client Water Supplies Department

• For Stage 1 77 km of watermains in New
  Territories North
• For Stage 2
• 130 km of watermains on Hong Kong Island, Lantau
  Island and Cheung Chau
• 160 km of watermains in the New Territories East
• 250 km of watermains in the New Territories West
• For Stage 4 413 km of watermains in New
  Territories

HONG KONG
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Water Mains Rehabilitation Project Stages 1 and 2
Client Water Supplies Department

• BV's roles include
• Investigation
• Design
• Construction supervision

HONG KONG
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Tai Hang Tung Storm Water Storage Tank Client
Drainage Services Department

• Underground reinforced concrete storage tank in
  Hong Kong, SAR
• Pumping station
• Connections to the existing upstream and
  downstream drainage systems
• A unique triple weir inlet
• A vehicular access tunnel for maintenance
  purposes and landscaping works
• Awarded the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers
  Innovation Award for the Construction Industry
  2001 2002

HONG KONG
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Tai Hang Tung Storm Water Storage Tank Client
Drainage Services Department

• BVs roles include
• Design
• Construction supervision

HONG KONG
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Kai Tak Storm Water Transfer Tunnel Client
Drainage Services Department

• 5 m diameter 1.5 km long mixed ground tunnel and
  450 m long culverts in Hong Kong, SAR
• Stormwater transfer for up to 40 m3/s

HONG KONG
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Kai Tak Storm Water Transfer Tunnel Client
Drainage Services Department

• BV's roles include
• Design
• Construction supervision

HONG KONG
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Wan Chai East and North Point Sewerage Project
Client Drainage Services Department

• Upgrade of existing trunk sewerage system in a
  very dense urban area in Hong Kong, SAR
• 225 mm to 1.2 m diameter 14 km long gravity sewer
  depths ranging from 1.5 m to 6 m, approximately 1
  km by tunneling method and 2.5 km by trenchless
  rehabilitation method

HONG KONG
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Wan Chai East and North Point Sewerage Project
Client Drainage Services Department

• Use of innovative trenchless technology reduced
  the size of construction site areas
• Major infrastructure improvements with minimal
  disruption to the public while significantly
  decreasing some existing environmental pollution
  problems

HONG KONG
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Wan Chai East and North Point Sewerage Project
Client Drainage Services Department

• BV's roles include
• Preliminary and detailed design
• Construction supervision

HONG KONG
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Drainage Master Plans Client Drainage Services
Department

• Yuen Long, Kam Tin, Ngau Tai Mei and Tin Shui Wai
  DMP Study
• Upgrade options to prevent flooding from the
  secondary and local drainage systems feeding the
  large main drainage nullahs
• Database / GIS system development to form part of
  an Asset Management System for the Drainage
  Services Department
• Implementation of a pilot Real Time Flow
  Monitoring System that measures river flow and
  depth at twelve locations
• Velocity was measured using Time of Flight
  technology

HONG KONG
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Drainage Master Plans Client Drainage Services
Department

• DMP Study in Sha Tin Tai Po
• Large WSD facilities such as Jubilee Reservoir,
  Lower Shing Mun Reservoir and the Plover Cove and
  High Island water transfer tunnel systems
• Investigations of river and open channel systems
  as well as the urban piped stormwater drainage
  systems in the new towns
• Data collection included flow, topographical and
  CCTV systems, while the analysis was carried out
  using MIKE 11 and HydroWorks computer models
• Improvement options to remove hydraulic
  weaknesses in the system were tested on the
  models, and the preferred option was taken to the
  preliminary design stage
• Development of an Asset Management System (AMS)
  which began in the Yuen Long and Kam Tin DMP

HONG KONG
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Drainage Master Plans Client Drainage Services
Department

• DMP Study in Tuen Mun Sham Tseng
• Upgrade of the secondary and local drainage
  systems to the required standard
• The DMP was supported by an AMS, specially
  adapted for use in the Tuen Mun and Sham Tseng
  area

HONG KONG
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Drainage Master Plans Client Drainage Services
Department

• DMP Study in Sai Kung, East Kowloon and Southern
  Lantau
• Study areas ranged from the typical rural Country
  Park areas of Sai Kung and Southern Lantau to the
  dense commercial, industrial and residential
  areas of East Kowloon
• The rivers in the study were modelled by MIKE 11
  and the urban networks were modelled by
  HydroWorks
• Introduction of Flood Hazard Assessment, Benefit
  Cost Analyses, Flood Risk Mappings and Overland
  Flow
• Modelling for any proposed major drainage
  improvement schemes

HONG KONG
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Engineering Strategy on Total Water Management
(TWM) for Hong Kong Client Water Supplies
Department

• To formulate a long-term strategy for balanced
  supply and demand of raw water to support the
  sustainable development in Hong Kong
• All major options of water demand and supply
  management measures were considered and evaluated
  in terms of (a) quantity (b) cost (c)
  environmental impact and (d) public acceptance

Photo credit Hong Kong Water Supplies Department
HONG KONG
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Engineering Strategy on Total Water Management
(TWM) for Hong Kong Client Water Supplies
Department

• Recommendation of an integrated strategy for TWM
  programme Water Demand Management Side
• Enhancing public education on water conservation
• Promotion of use of water saving device
• Active water asset management and leakage control
  by the Government
• Extension of seawater for toilet flushing
• Water Supply Management Side
• Protection of water resources
• Water reclamation such as non-potable use of
  reclaimed water, grey-water reuse and rainwater
  harvesting
• Development of seawater desalination

Photo credit Hong Kong Water Supplies Department
HONG KONG
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Engineering Strategy on Total Water Management
(TWM) for Hong Kong Client Water Supplies
Department

• BV's roles include
• Study
• Public consultation
• Develop preliminary implementation plans and
  programmes for proposed TWM measures

Photo credit Hong Kong Water Supplies Department
HONG KONG
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Lake Pleasant Water Treatment Plant Client City
of Phoenix

• Innovative solutions for North Americas largest
  design-build-operate project
• 80 mgd of quality, reliable drinking water for
  400,00 households
• State-of-the-art process system flocculation,
  ozonation, post-filtration granular activated
  carbon contractors and ultra-violet
  disinfection
• 3D object oriented engineering program

USA
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Lake Pleasant Water Treatment Plant Client City
of Phoenix

• BV's roles include
• Design Build Operate (DBO)

USA
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Columbia Heights Membrane Filtration Plant
Client Minneapolis Water Works

• Largest ultrafiltration plant in the Western
  hemisphere
• 260 MLD ultrafiltration (UF) membrane water
  treatment system
• Membrane facility includes new pumping systems,
  chemical dosing systems and all ancillaries
  within the same building and integrated with
  existing coagulation/ flocculation, settling
  systems

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Columbia Heights Membrane Filtration Plant
Client Minneapolis Water Works

• Architecturally attractive building that blends
  into surroundings
• 3D technology enables virtual-reality client
  reviews and interactions
• Training of utility staff on membrane process
• Won the prestigious Water Project of the Year
  award at the 2006 Global Water Awards for this
  project

PRELIMINARY DESIGN, 3D RENDERING
AS BUILT
USA
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Columbia Heights Membrane Filtration Plant
Client Minneapolis Water Works

• BV's roles include
• Design-Bid-Build

USA
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Scottsdale Water Campus Client City of
Scottsdale

• WPP for discharge to water supply systems
• 71 MLD AWTP for irrigation and used for
  irrigation with excess injected into on-site dry
  wells for aquifer recharge
• MF/UF and RO membrane plants
• Pilot program led to signification improvements
  in energy usage and performance

USA
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Scottsdale Water Campus Client City of
Scottsdale

• Membrane micro and ultrafiltration, thin film
  reverse osmosis and advanced disinfection
• Process design for zero discharge 45 MLD
  nitrification / denitrification reclamation
  facility
• Grand Prize for Excellence in Environmental
  Engineering with the American Academy of
  Environmental Engineers (AAEE)

USA
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Scottsdale Water Campus Client City of
Scottsdale

• BV's roles include
• Detailed design, inclusive of pilot plant trials

USA
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