Post Tagged with: "Black & Veatch"

Rate Structuring & Steering the Conversation from Skepticism to Acceptance

Rate Structuring & Steering the Conversation from Skepticism to Acceptance

By Prabha Kumar The ethos and expectations of the utility management, the administration, the rate-approving body and the ratepayers intersect during every utility’s rate setting and approval process. Municipal utilities, municipal authorities and investor-owned utilities that head down the rate setting path all need to effectivelyRead More

How Not to Get Caught with Your Valves – Or Any Other Part of Your System – Down

How Not to Get Caught with Your Valves – Or Any Other Part of Your System – Down

Asset management can be a gradual process, but condition assessment requires more than a superficial scan of system components. News media report the big infrastructure failures. Whether we manage water systems or tap into them, we hear about major water main breaks, tunnel collapses andRead More

Safety by Design

Safety by Design

Water Management April 12, 2018 at 9:45 am

Making Safety a Focus in the Design of Water Facilities Can Eliminate an Array of Issues By Elizabeth A. Rodgers, Michael Etheridge & Chase Hartz Imagine that an engineer offers to design your water facility or facility upgrade in such a way that it is safe toRead More

Black & Veatch project wins Desalination Plant of the Year honors

Black & Veatch project wins Desalination Plant of the Year honors

Water Management May 15, 2017 at 7:00 am

Recognizing its size and technical complexity, the Escondida Water Supply (EWS) project in Chile was selected Industrial Desalination Plant of the Year at the 2017 Global Water Summit. The plant increases water supply by creating purified water from seawater and delivering it to the largestRead More

Triple Vision: Collaboration, Innovation, Communication

Triple Vision: Collaboration, Innovation, Communication

Commentary, Guest Columns, Water Management April 18, 2017 at 3:40 pm

 By Cindy Wallis-Lage   Water is both a resource and a challenge. As an optimist — a trait I think I share with many water leaders — I see opportunities and potential solutions when I look at challenges facing the water industry. Leaders in anyRead More

San Diego water project wins prestigious ASCE award

San Diego water project wins prestigious ASCE award

Water Management April 17, 2017 at 8:55 am

A project to increase water system resilience for San Diego County residents has won the prestigious 2017 Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). Black & Veatch delivered construction project management and design service on two of the fourRead More

Shaw joins Black & Veatch’s Houston office

Shaw joins Black & Veatch’s Houston office

Water Management April 3, 2017 at 9:59 am

Dr. Andrew Shaw, a Black & Veatch water and wastewater expert, is relocating to the firm’s Houston Regional Office and will focus on leading efforts in nutrient removal, sustainability and wastewater reuse. Shaw, a global practice and technology leader and associate vice president, will helpRead More

An opportunity to reduce operating costs that may not be readily apparent is the implementation of Biological Nutrient Removal (BNR) to reduce aeration costs while improving effluent quality (Photo credit: Black & Veatch).

Performance Contracting Delivers Maximum Flexibility, Upgrades

Water Management February 23, 2017 at 2:00 pm

How to Have Your Cake and Eat It, Too Energy Savings Performance Contracting Delivers Maximum Flexibility Along with Upgrades By Pete Thomson & Mike Hanna People who judge sports, video gaming and baking competitions often consider “degree of difficulty” in evaluating performance. That consideration shouldRead More

Missouri treatment plant increases output, quality

Missouri treatment plant increases output, quality

Water Management January 9, 2017 at 11:26 am

Missouri American Water and Black & Veatch are working on a new water treatment plant near Parkville, Mo., that will increase needed supplies while improving water quality. The new plant is designed to meet ongoing population growth in the Parkville region, near the Kansas CityRead More

Black & Veatch Adds Six Water Experts to Its Houston Office

Black & Veatch Adds Six Water Experts to Its Houston Office

Water Management August 15, 2016 at 11:32 am

Black & Veatch has hired or relocated an additional six engineers for its water and wastewater business at the company’s Houston Regional Office to support project growth in Texas and globally. The company’s continued expansion in Houston builds on its office presence in the cityRead More