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Gulf Coast Desalination Consultant Team Tampa Bay Water has assembled a team of the nation’s top scientific, environmental and engineering professionals to assist in the planning and development of an environmentally friendly, economically feasible seawater desalination plant. The Gulf Coast Desalination plant is expected to come online in early 2008. This plant will be the second large-scale desalination facility in the Tampa Bay region. The team, which includes experts in marine, environmental science and engineering, is working hard to develop this water resource in the best interest of the community and Florida’s unique environment. P B Water Founded in 1885, Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade & Douglas is one of the oldest continually operating engineering consulting firms in the United States. PB Water, its water project division, serves as primary consultant to Tampa Bay Water for the Gulf Coast Desalination project, responsible for project management and overseeing all aspects of the plant’s development and procurement. PB Water’s staff includes a combination of desalination and water resource specialists with experience in more than 50 desalination-related projects, consisting of design and procurement, environmental permitting and compliance, intakes and outfalls, hydraulic structures, industrial waste control, brine disposal wells, water supply planning, water distribution systems, and construction services. Staff working on the Gulf Coast Desalination project has extensive experience in public/private partnership procurements for seawater desalination and water transmission projects, including the Tampa Bay seawater desalination facility in southern Hillsborough County and the Seawater Desalination II Feasibility Study conducted for this project. Post Buckley Schuh & Jernigan, Inc. Post, Buckley, Schuh & Jernigan is Florida’s largest engineering consulting firm with 2400 professional employees in 60 offices around the world. For this project, PBS&J is responsible for selecting the finished water delivery pipeline corridor, pipeline design and procurement services and environmental permitting support for intake and discharge systems. PBS&J has in-depth knowledge of federal, state, and local environmental regulations and a strong track record in site development, feasibility studies, utilities assessment, land acquisition studies and site/civil engineering design and permitting. A subsidiary, PBS&J Construction Services, Inc., will work hand-in-hand with the pipeline design team to provide “constructability” reviews to ensure that designs are feasible in the field. R. W. Beck R.W. Beck, an international engineering and management-consulting firm, has specialized expertise in procurement through public/private partnerships and in quality assurance. The firm has proven expertise in Design-Build-Operate (DBO) procurements, in which a private developer designs, builds and operates a facility for the project owner and in Design-Build-Operate-Transfer (DBOOT). A DBOOT is an arrangement in which the facility is designed, built and operated by a developer, which can later transfer ownership to the public agency. These public/private partnerships (DBO and DBOOT) allow public agencies cost-effective access to state-of-the-art technology and depth of expertise possessed by large private developers. R.W. Beck has successfully served as procurement advisor for the development of Tampa Bay Water’s new Regional Water Treatment Plant, a DBO project that is now under construction. Nationally, Beck has served as owner’s engineer for the economic and technical feasibility evaluations for more than a dozen water and wastewater alternative procurement projects. The firm applies to this project lessons learned from its work on some of the largest technical and economic feasibility evaluations of infrastructure project deliveries worldwide. As the foremost consultant for economic analysis and modeling capital and operating costs for technology-based projects in the United States, R.W. Beck is responsible for the project procurement and for evaluating the life-cycle and delivered water costs for the project as proposed by the developer teams. Janicki Environmental, Inc. Based in St. Petersburg, Janicki Environmental, Inc., is responsible for ecological and environmental analysis and assessment, as well as providing permitting assistance for the Gulf Coast Desalination project. Under the direction of estuarine ecologist and marine biologist Tony Janicki, PhD, the firm specializes in aquatic ecology, water quality monitoring and assessments, hydrodynamic modeling, monitoring program design, limnology, estuarine ecology and data management and analysis. Principals of Janicki Environmental have in-depth experience in numerous environmental projects in west-central and south Florida, including modeling the effect of saltwater concentrate on water quality at the Big Bend Power Station and in the Anclote region. The firm also has been involved in a number of critical environmental programs, including Tampa Bay Water’s Master Water Plan, the Tampa Bay and Charlotte Harbor Estuary Programs, the Southwest Florida and South Florida Water Management District’s SWIM programs, and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection’s Integrated Water Resources Monitoring Network. Professional Service Industries, Inc. Professional Service Industries, Inc. (PSI) is a nationally recognized leader in consulting engineering, environmental, geotechnical facilities, materials testing and inspection services. With more than 3,000 employees in 175 offices, PSI is the nation’s largest independent testing organization. PSI is responsible for geotechnical and materials testing on the Gulf Coast Desalination project. For more information on the project team of consultants, contact: Primary Consultant: Donna E. Hoke, PE |
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