A $ 105 million design building contract to build a 72-mile water transmission pipeline to bring Missouri river water to southeastern South Dakota has been awarded to a joint company of the Construction of Hausmann and digging general in collaboration with engineer Short Short Elliott Hendrickson Inc. (Seh).
The project, which is expected to begin this spring and will be completed by 2027, will include updates and increase water storage at the Platte to Platte water treatment plant, SD
The water system is owned by the Water District of the Randall Community, which says that a proactive approach to the improvements of the water system in the state is needed that faces the demand for increasing water.
“Numerous studies have identified that existing water supply and infrastructure will not be able to meet demands in the future,” the district said in a statement.
The pipeline will serve two other water systems, an industrial area with an ethanol plant and will be a secondary water source for the city of Mitchell, which uses another water system, but regularly exceeds its capacity. daily of 2.6 million gallons.
Clinton Powell, main engineer of Pinpoint Corp., who represents the Water District in contract management, the recruitment processes of RFQ/RFP and the administration of the construction, says that this is the first time. Design building contract for a water infrastructure project in the State.
Use design design instead of design-bid-construction will reduce construction time between four and five years to two years, while reducing costs from 20% to 25%, according to Powell.
“There are not many states that use design creation for water infrastructure,” says Powell. “But it saves time in the supply process and in being able to design and build the pipeline simultaneously.”
“Because the need is urgent, the project required innovative collaboration between the engineering firm, the contractor and the state to speed up the time line,” added Steve Thiele, Hausmann’s executive vice president.
Scott Pick, General Director of the Water District, says that five companies submitted offers for the project. He liked the design creation process during the design design process, because it required companies “to tell us how they were going to do the project before they even did so. Do not look for a low offer but a qualified offer. “”
The offers were reviewed by the Water District and scored and classified for various reference points. The joint company of Hausmann Construction and General Excavation, both based in Nebraska, had the highest score, according to Pick.
Seh, based in St. Paul, Minn., Has a specialized experience in water distribution engineering and provides professional design and hydraulic design engineering services as part of the design design team.
Thiele says that a project challenge will be coordinated with various stakeholders and collaborators, such as the Water District, the Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources of South Dakota and the affected owners.
“We understand the critical nature of maintaining everyone on the same page, so coordination between these parties will be the most difficult aspect. Our goal is a positive experience throughout the spectrum,” he says.
