Brown and Caldwell wins awards for design-build water and wastewater projects
The Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA) announced the winners of its 2018 National Design-Build Project/Team Awards competition. Within the water/wastewater category, two Brown and Caldwell-involved projects received accolades: National Excellence Award — RM Clayton Water Reclamation Center Headworks (City of Atlanta Department of Watershed Management) and National Merit Award — Bush Beans Process Water Reclamation Facility (Bush Brothers & Company).
Bush Brothers & Company’s (Bush’s Best Baked Beans) new $55 million process water reclamation facility (PWRF), located rurally in the Great Smoky Mountains approximately 40 miles from Knoxville, Tennessee, was led by a design-build joint venture of Brown and Caldwell and Haskell. The new 2.1 million gallons per day (MGD) facility treats production process water to a high effluent quality for agricultural irrigation along with reuse within the PWRF and nonfood contact production applications at the Bush Brothers & Company main production plant. The design-build team collaborated with the company to deliver a cost-effective, aesthetically pleasing solution that complements the landscape surrounding the Great Smoky Mountains.
For the second winning project — a headworks facility at the RM Clayton Water Reclamation Center, Atlanta’s largest wastewater facility — the city selected a design-build team of Western Summit/Anatek Inc./Brown and Caldwell to mitigate the harmful effects of grit accumulation and facility wear. The $53.5 million project included headworks upgrades, replacement of coarse screening and grit removal systems with a 12-cell, multi-tray HeadCell grit extraction structure and installation of new influent monitoring equipment to integrate with the digital control system at the 240 MGD facility.
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Modern Water expands in Africa with brine technology
To promote its proprietary All-Membrane Brine Concentration (AMBC) technology throughout Africa, Modern Water entered into a new collaboration agreement with WEC Projects of Johannesburg, a South African engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor in the water and wastewater treatment sector.
"Host to numerous industry sectors, Southern Africa in particular is a potentially large market for AMBC since the region is increasingly subject to strict water treatment regulations brought on by a severe water shortage," said WEC Projects CEO Wayne Taljaard. "Modern Water’s proprietary brine concentrator is an innovative solution capable of reducing wastewater treatment requirements and maximizing clean-water reuse in a wide range of industrial applications, including mining, power, oil and gas and desalination plants."
