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Water Design-Build News
September 15, 2021
Issue Highlights
New Notice Posted - The Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati - Notice of Upcoming Request for Qualifications
Four Education Sessions Left - Still Time to Register
Blog Feature - Addressing the Wish List
Legislative Corner - House Dems Seek to Top Up Water Infrastructure Funding
WDBC Notices Page
Did you know that owners can post notices of RFQs and RFPs on our website? Whether you're an owner looking to post an upcoming project or an industry member looking to bid on a project, check back regularly to our Notices page here.
The Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati Notice of Upcoming Request for Qualifications Little Miami Wastewater Treatment Plant Solids Disposal with Odor Control Progressive Design-Build Project
Join the WDBC for the remaining four lessons in our six-session package of online education sessions designed for owners and practitioners in the water industry. Officials, managers, and engineering and O&M staff of public water/wastewater facilities who are looking to gain essential knowledge needed to procure and deliver design-build and CMAR projects should attend these
classes.
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Each morning session will include a review of the principles and best practices of collaborative delivery followed by the topic of the day in the afternoon:
September 23: Contracts
October 28: Conducting the Procurement Process
November 18: Managing and Implementing Collaborative-Delivery Projects
December 16: Getting to Project Completion & Transition
Time: 10:00 - 1:30 p.m. MST (break 11:30 - 12:00 MST) All sessions will be conducted on Microsoft Teams
Package includes a hard copy and PDF of the 5th edition Water and Wastewater Design-Build Handbook. See registration page for single-session options.
What happens when your project has a fixed budget and an open-ended project scope? Or what if there is a desire to deal with not only a specific need, but also address a “wish list” of additional improvements?
One benefit of progressive design-build project delivery is the collaborative approach to working through the design, evaluating value engineering options, and assessing constructability of a given project. This type of approach results in the opportunity to improve project costs and provide better cost certainty.
House Dems Seek to Top Up Water Infrastructure Funding House Democrats on Friday unveiled plans to add $3.7 billion in spending to upgrade the nation's aging and failing wastewater infrastructure as part of their sweeping $3.5 trillion budget package that is the centerpiece of President Joe Biden's domestic agenda. The figures were included in the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee's draft text and summaries of its $60 billion slice of the budget package. The bipartisan infrastructure bill hashed out earlier this year was the venue for major water infrastructure investments, including $11.7 billion for the Clean Water State Revolving Fund. The vast majority of T&I's relatively modest slice of the broader budget bill is focused on rail, highways and aviation infrastructure. Still, the T&I bill seeks to top off the bipartisan bill's spending on aging and failing sewer infrastructure with an additional $2 billion for projects to address sewer overflows and stormwater reuse. It would also provide $500 million in wastewater grants to tribal communities. And the measure includes $495 million in grants for technical assistance to communities that are rural, small, tribal or financially strapped. The committee was slated to mark up its portion of the budget bill Tuesday, Sept. 14 at 10 a.m.
EPA to Regulate Certain PFAS Discharges The Biden EPA announced plans last Wednesday to issue first-ever regulations for industrial discharges of toxic PFAS chemicals. Public health advocates say such regulations are crucial to preventing the ongoing contamination of drinking water supplies, and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have sought to mandate the rules legislatively (S. 1907). EPA said it will update discharge limits and pretreatment standards governing facilities that manufacture organic chemicals, plastics and synthetic fibers, as well as for those covering metal finishing facilities. Both rulemakings will be aimed at addressing discharges of PFAS. The Biden administration has already committed to issuing first-ever federal drinking water limits for the best-understood PFAS contaminating water supplies, although they're not due to be finalized until 2024.
*Article provided by WDBC advocacy consulting firm, Venn Strategies
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