McCarthy Building Companies Inc., through the Houston Waterworks Team, has been awarded three separate contracts on Houston's Northeast Water Purification Plant (NEWPP) project. To meet the needs of a growing population and shift from reliance on groundwater to surface water for its drinking water, the City of Houston and four regional water authority partners are undertaking a 320-million- gallons-per-day (MGD), $1.765 billion design-build expansion of NEWPP. It is currently the largest progressive design-build water treatment plant project underway in the U.S. The NEWPP project's first 80-MGD phase will be in operation in early 2023; the balance of McCarthy's construction work will be complete in 2024; and the overall plant will be in full operation in early 2025.
"Water projects have been and will continue to be a big part of what we do at McCarthy," said Kurt Knebel, executive vice president of McCarthy. "We are proud to be selected by a prominent team for one of its largest and most complex projects in years; it is a true testament to the quality of work our heavy civil/marine/industrial team produces."
The first package is the early works Central Plant foundations, which consists of furnishing and installing all rebar and structural concrete, embeds, pipe penetrations and under-slab process mechanical piping on the west filter module and transfer pump station facilities. The second package is for the construction of a 30,000-square-foot raw water intake pump station.
The third package includes the balance of construction of the Central Plant, which will consist of a full buildout of the two facilities already underway to complete Phase 1, as well as the rest of the filters, the second transfer pump station and post-chemical facilities for Phase 2.
Throughout the project, McCarthy's team will self-perform several aspects of the job, including process piping, process equipment installation, pile driving, concrete work, metal installation and earthwork.
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