Houston’s $1.8 Billion Progressive Design Build Project for Sustainable Drinking Water

The Gulf Coast Region of the Society of Construction Law—North America and Rice Global Engineering & Construction Forum are excited to joint together for an exciting presentation by Houston Waterworks Team’s Project Director Paul Vranesic. The Houston Waterworks Team—a joint venture of Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc. and CDM Constructors Inc.—is building the sustainable future of Houston’s drinking water through the progressive design-build $1.8 billion Northeast Water Purification Plant (NEWPP) Expansion project. In the greater Houston area, sustained pumping and withdrawal of groundwater for drinking causes land subsidence. To lesson dependence on groundwater, the area has a mandate to convert to 60% surface water use by 2025 and 80% use by 2035. The NEWPP Expansion project is critical to this conversion and to address the drinking water demands of the Houston area’s fast-growing population. The NEWPP Expansion is the largest progressive design-build drinking water treatment plant project in the nation. For the past three years, nearly 1,400 people have been on site daily at the NEWPP Expansion project building this essential drinking water treatment plant with top attention to safety, quality, and performance. The plant will start delivering drinking water to the local area in early 2023. The NEWPP Project just passed 6 million manhours without a Lost Time Accident, and is on its way to 7 million, then 8 million, and beyond to completion.

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