When a global manufacturer of carbon fiber products announced plans to invest $1 billion in building a manufacturing plant on a 400-acre greenfield site in Moore, South Carolina, it quickly became apparent that PDB was the best model to achieve the “must haves” for project delivery.
How Progressive Design-Build (PDB) Offered New Solutions to a Global Manufacturer and Saved Millions
Topics: Brown and Caldwell, Haskell, progressive design-build, wastewater
Design-Build Project Delivery Gains Momentum as More Water Utilities Make the Switch
The federal government estimates that more than $384 billion in capital investment is needed by 2030 to maintain the nation’s drinking water infrastructure. Publicly owned wastewater utilities need about $270 billion during the same period.
Topics: Brown and Caldwell, design-build, water design-build project
Risk and Reward in Cincinnati
When uncertainties abound, design-build delivers to overcome project challenges.
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Using Design-Build to Improve the Water System in Goodyear, Arizona
The Technical Challenge
The City of Goodyear, Arizona, is one of the fastest growing communities in the U.S. with an average annual growth rate of 15 to 20 percent. With growth exceeding the existing infrastructure capabilities, the City developed a program to quickly grow their potable water delivery capacity. The brackish groundwater from local perched aquifers also required treatment for potable use in most cases.
Topics: Brown and Caldwell, Water Infrastructure
Project Spotlight: Quincy, Washington Industrial Water Reuse Utility
Third-Party Contracting and Public/Private Collaboration Open the Door to Design-Build in the City of Quincy, Washington
To maintain operability, data centers demand abundant amounts of low-cost power, reliable infrastructure, mild weather, low-risk seismic zoning, buried power lines and reasonably priced Greenfield land. Since 2006, these criteria have made the city of Quincy, Washington an ideal location for farming, food processing and data centers. Located in Grant County, the largest potato producing county in the United States, the city of Quincy is home to over 60 megawatts (MW) of server farms for Microsoft, Dell, Yahoo!, Intuit and others.
Topics: Brown and Caldwell
Brown & Caldwell Wins Award for Seattle Water Project
Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) and WDBC member Brown and Caldwell recenty received the Award for Excellence in Innovation from the Water Environment Research Foundation. The award recognizes the team’s work to improve the flood grouting process that has allowed Seattle Public Utilities to cope with frequent wet weather sanitary sewer backups and overflows in the city’s Broadview neighborhood. This project adds a new tool to the infiltration reduction toolbox.
Topics: Brown and Caldwell
Congratulations to Jeff Theerman, Vice President and Senior Utility Consultant for WDBC Member and leading nationwide environmental engineering firm Brown and Caldwell. Earlier this month, Jeff was honored with the Distinguished Service Award by the National Association of Clean Water Agencies at the association's meeting in Washington, D.C.
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