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Doosan Enpure wins £50mn Jersey STW replacement project
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irmingham, UK-based Doosan Enpure will be the main contractor for the £50 million project to replace the Bellozanne sewage treatment works (STW) in St Helier, Jersey, which is operated by States of Jersey Transport and Technical Services (T&TS). The existing STW has been operating for more than 50 years. The framework agreement covers a period of early contractor involvement to develop the concept design followed by a second package to design and build the new replacement STW.
BluMetric partners with Aquarion
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anadian cleantech company BluMetric Environmental Inc has signed a technology, business and project development agreement with Switzerland’s Aquarion AG. Ottawa-headquartered BluMetric is an engineered solutions and professional services company serving the mining, food and beverage, and municipal sectors, while Aquarion offers advanced treatment solutions to clients in the oil and gas, food and beverage, energy, and micro-electronics industries from operating units in Germany, Italy, the UK and Southeast Asia.
Fibracast breaks ground on new Canadian manufacturing plant
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ibracast Inc has held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new manufacturing facility in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada that will produce its patented FibrePlate hybrid membrane for water treatment and reuse. “The feedback from our lead customers in the US, in Europe and in Asia is that FibrePlate membranes have achieved a critical breakthrough,” said Steve Watzeck, chairman 4
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of the board and chief commercialisation officer of Fibracast. “Therefore, we see significant opportunities for our product in markets around the world and we are now ready to expand our production capacity.”
Irish Water makes its largest single investment in WWTP
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rish Water is investing E31 million in a major upgrade of one of Ireland’s largest wastewater treatment plants at Osberstown in Co Kildare. This is the largest single investment to date in the upgrade of a wastewater treatment plant by Irish Water. The project, which is currently under construction, will increase the treatment capacity from the current 80 000 PE (population equivalent) to 130 000 PE. The upgrade work at the plant is expected to be completed by the end of 2017. Irish Water will spend more than E410 million improving water services in Ireland during 2015.
Mott MacDonald works on sewage treatment plant upgrade in Papua New Guinea
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ott MacDonald has started preparing the detailed design of the solids management component of a new sewage treatment plant in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. The project, undertaken on behalf of the Independent Public Business Corp, forms part of the wider Port Moresby Sewerage System Upgrade Project (POMSSUP). Stage 1 of the POMSSUP scheme will involve the construction of a A$80 million sewage treatment plant in Kila Kila, capable of treating flows of 18 400 m3 per day. Thirteen pumping stations, a 13km trunk sewer and 15km branch sewer will also be constructed or rehabilitated as part of the project. For Stage 2 of the project, Mott MacDonald has developed technical solutions to expand the treatment plant capacity to 25 700 m3 per day, as well as reducing solids
produced at the site and generating biogas for power generation. The consultancy will design the process, mechanical, hydraulic, civil and building services for the primary sedimentation tanks, dissolved air flotation pre-thickening units, gravity belt thickeners, anaerobic digesters and gas engines, including all associated equipment and pumps. Construction of the sewage treatment plant upgrade is due to be completed in the summer of 2018.
Koch Membrane Systems to supply MBR technology for UK WWTW project
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och Membrane Systems (KMS) is to provide its PURON MBR modules for the upgrade and expansion of the Woolston Wastewater Treatment Works near Southampton, Hampshire, UK. The plant, which is owned and operated by Southern Water, needs to be upgraded to ensure that treated wastewater meets new, higher environmental standards, and to increase the capacity of the current asset to accommodate higher demand resulting from the redevelopment of the area. When it starts up in summer 2017, the plant will treat wastewater at an average flow of 19 000 m3 per day, with the ability to process a maximum daily capacity of 39 000 m3. This will make the Woolston MBR plant the largest MBR facility in the UK.
Amey wins Yorkshire Water wastewater contract
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egulated services provider Amey has been awarded a £113 million contract to deliver wastewater services across the whole of Yorkshire Water’s region in the UK to 2020. Under the new contract, Amey will repair and maintain around 20 000 miles of sewer pipe which transports wastewater from nearly two million homes to over 600 wastewater treatment works in the area. The contract, which runs until April 2020, has the option to be extended for a further five years.
July 2015