Water Reclamation Facility & Outfall
A 40 MGD water reclamation facility and outfall, brought to permitted flow before a consent decree deadline.
- Owner
- Confidential
- Region
- U.S. West
- Market
- Water & Wastewater
- Capital value
- $560M
- Size
- 40 MGD
- Delivery
- Progressive Design-Build
- Duration
- 44 months
- Completed
- 2026
What was at stake.
The utility was under a consent decree with daily penalties after the deadline. Progressive design-build meant the guaranteed price and the schedule were set in stages, and early packages were already behind. The utility needed a defensible forecast for the regulator and a plan to recover the lost months.
How we controlled it.
What our schedulers and cost engineers did on this project.
Staged baselines
Each design-build phase got its own baselined P6 schedule, rolled into one program view against the decree date.
Recovery plan
We resequenced process trains so the first train reached permitted flow while the later trains were still in construction.
Startup in the plan
Process startup, seeding and performance testing were scheduled as real durations, not a single milestone at the end.
Regulator reporting
Quarterly reports to the regulator used the same data as the internal update, so there was only one version of the truth.
The result.
A consent decree turns a schedule into a legal document. Every date we reported had to be one we could prove.
Recovery lead, AdenTurton
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