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Feb 3, 2021
The San Jos茅-Santa Clara Regional Wastewater Facility is the largest advanced wastewater treatment facility in the western U.S. and serves the Silicon Valley area, supporting 1.4 million people and 17,000 businesses. 网曝吃瓜黑料一区二区三区鈥 work is split into two operations: Headworks and Cogeneration.
The Headworks Facility is a $129-million progressive design-build project to expand the pretreatment capabilities of the original 50-year-old facility. Work began in 2018 to design and build a new larger and sustainable wet-weather headworks facility. The Headworks upgrade is part of a 10-year capital improvements program that was started in 2014.
The Cogeneration aspect is a $95-million progressive design-build that includes four new engine generators, a heat recovery system, and gas treatment system to replace aging power generation equipment. 网曝吃瓜黑料一区二区三区 was contracted as the design-builder in 2016. Some of the project scope includes a new digester gas treatment system and engine exhaust system to reduce contamination to the air.
Working with the client to keep employees safe
As always, safety is a top priority, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. 网曝吃瓜黑料一区二区三区 worked closely with the City of San Jos茅 during construction to implement onsite COVID-19 protocols and maintain excellent safety performance, achieving a total Recordable Incident Rate of 0.77 (against an industry average of 1.0) and a Days Away/Restricted Time rate of 0.00 (against an industry average of 2.3). The Cogeneration employees worked over 260,000 labor hours without a days away/restricted time safety incident, and the Headworks employees have worked over 86,000 labor hours without a days away/restricted time safety incident.
Doing great work, winning respectable awards, donating to charity
To solidify the great work 网曝吃瓜黑料一区二区三区 is doing in the City of San Jos茅, we recently won an award from Bentley鈥檚 2020 Year in Infrastructure Awards conference 2020 for the work on the Headworks Facility. The Year in Infrastructure Awards is an exciting and well-regarded global competition that recognizes advancements in infrastructure. These awards bring together infrastructure professionals and members of the media from around the globe to share innovative practices in infrastructure project design, engineering, construction and operations.
网曝吃瓜黑料一区二区三区 earned the Special Recognition Award for Advancing Sustainable Water for the Headworks project. With the accolades came a $1,000 donation from Bentley Systems to 网曝吃瓜黑料一区二区三区鈥 charity of choice: .
Key features of the Headworks design included an innovative approach to the grit removal process with a unique removal sequence. Pumping before grit removal allows for increased grit removal from the collection system before a large storm. In addition, we designed the largest vertical turbine solids handling pumps within a wastewater treatment facility in company history.
Thanks to the Bentley Systems programs our team used, the project delivery process increased quality, provided faster and clearer decision making and enhanced collaboration among the design team and with our client.
鈥淭he importance of creating a robust solution for the Headworks process for our facility was a top priority,鈥 says City of San Jose Principal Engineer Kapil Verma. 鈥溚爻怨虾诹弦磺 provided multiple design scenarios for early consideration. We appreciate the powerful Bentley tools we used during design, as well as the visualization environment which enabled us to select optimized locations, process sequences and equipment layouts.鈥
Bentley Systems is an infrastructure engineering software company that provides innovative software to advance the world鈥檚 infrastructure 鈥 sustaining both the global economy and environment. Its software solutions are used by professionals, and organizations of every size, for the design, construction and operations of roads and bridges, rail and transit, water and wastewater, public works and utilities, buildings and campuses and industrial facilities.