Grants Pass Water Treatment Project

GRANTS PASS WATER TREATMENT PROJECT
KIEWIT – GHD – AUSLAND GROUP

Grants Pass Survey

Kiewit, together with GHD and Ausland Group, is currently pursuing to serve as prime contractor for the Grants Pass Water Treatment Project. To make this important infrastructure project a success we need the help of local businesses and workers, we can’t do it without you!  If you are interested in an opportunity to be part of this project and join our team, please take a minute to fill out this survey and tell us a little more about your business or your work skills.

The project consists of the design and construction of a new 22 million gallon per day water treatment plant and includes room for future expansion.  The existing water treatment facility has been identified as one of the oldest existing water plants still in operation in the state of Oregon. Well past its projected lifecycle, the ability of the plant to reliably deliver water to the community is becoming increasingly more challenging and expensive. Your new water treatment plant will be based on robust and proven treatment technology. The new plant will use the existing intake at the existing plant to reduce cost. When completed, this project will provide the residents of Grants Pass a new and reliable source of clean, high-quality drinking water for many years to come.  Plant design activities will begin in 2021 and are anticipated to last for about a year. Construction will begin early in 2023.  You can read more on the City’s website here: https://www.grantspassoregon.gov/1171/Water-Treatment-Plant-Replacement-Projec  

About Kiewit

Kiewit is one of North America’s largest and most respected construction and engineering organizations. Kiewit’s roots can be traced back to 1884 when the Kiewit family started its small, local masonry contracting company in Nebraska. Kiewit has since grown to be one of the leading construction and engineering firms across North America; ranking 5th in ENR’s 2020 Top Contractors Rankings and building projects across North America.

We have been building projects in Oregon since 1958.  Kiewit and our affiliates have built over 135 projects in Oregon with an average value of about $36M. Our resume of projects includes major transportation projects in Portland; food process projects in Ontario, OR; railroad projects in Meacham, OR and a project in Grants Pass for the Central Oregon and Pacific Railroad.

It is important that we are good stewards of the public dollars that fund the projects we build.  Our approach to stewardship is founded on transparency.  We make regular use of dashboards, tailored to the unique needs of each project, client and community to maintain transparency on project cost and progress.

We embrace our obligation to be responsible guests in the communities we work in and maintain the highest regard for them. After all, we build in our own backyards as much as we do in yours. We can’t build your projects alone, it takes an entire team of companies to build any project.  That is why it is important that we understand how we can involve local businesses and encourage you to take our brief survey below.

Find out more about Kiewit at www.Kiewit.com  

About GHD

GHD is one of the world’s leading professional services companies operating across the globe in market sectors of water, energy and resources, environment, property and buildings, and transportation. We provide engineering, architecture, environmental and construction services to private and public sector clients. Established in 1928 and owned by our people, GHD operates across five continents and employs more than 10,000 people in 200+ offices to deliver projects with high standards of safety, quality and ethics across the entire asset value chain. Driven by a client-service led culture, we connect the knowledge, skill and experience of our people with innovative practices, technical capabilities and robust systems to create lasting community benefits. 

Committed to sustainable development, GHD improves the physical, natural and social environments of the many communities in which we operate. We are guided by our workplace health, safety, quality and environmental management systems, which are certified to the relevant international standards (ISO and OHSAS).  In alignment with the global demands of water, energy and changing communities, our aim is to exceed the expectations of our clients and contribute to their success. 

Find out more about GHD at www.GHD.com  

About Ausland Group

Ausland Group is a design-build firm founded in Grants Pass, with a 70+ year history of building in Oregon. As a regional firm with award-winning expertise, our vision is to bring world-class development, locally scaled to our communities. This means we believe that technically complex projects of all sizes are more successful when a team of integrated professionals comes together to find the best outcomes for clients. Our team of nearly 80 employees includes construction managers, architects, structural engineers, and civil engineers, as well as construction tradespeople, all under one roof.  

With strong roots in Southern Oregon, we have exceptional relationships in the subcontracting community and with approving agencies to aid in making each project smooth and affordable for our clients. We have an outstanding reputation for delivering quality built projects and are known for our ability to mobilize teams quickly, deliver reliable service, and coordinate proactively to avert potential schedule or budget impacts. 

We are planners, designers and builders. The heart of our business lies in understanding the process of building a project—from the planning and design phases through construction—and in anticipating the myriad challenges that can delay or even derail a project.   

Find out more about the Ausland Group at www.AuslandGroup.com  

  • Painting
  • HVAC
  • Survey
  • Quality Control and Testing 
  • SWPPP
  • Temporary Construction Design
  • Support of Excavation
  • Trucking and Transportation
  • Construction Equipment Rentals
  • Grading
  • Rebar Supply and Installation
  • Masonry
  • Structural Steel Erection
  • Site Security
  • Catering
  • Misc. Metals fab and Install
  • Roofing
  • Insulation
  • Plumbing
  • I & C
  • SCADA
  • Electrical
  • Design
  • Office Equipment
  • Printing Services

Firms interested in working collaboratively on the project please complete the following survey:

Grants Pass Survey

OUR LOCATIONS

KIEWIT INFRASTRUCTURE WEST CO.

4650 Business Center Drive
Fairfield, CA 94534

Phone : (707) 439-7300

Fax : (707) 439-7301

KIEWIT INFRASTRUCTURE WEST CO.

2200 Columbia House Blvd
Vancouver, WA 98611

Phone : (360) 693-1478

Fax : (360) 693-5582

Ausland Group – Grants Pass

3935 Highland Avenue
Grants Pass, Oregon 97526

Phone : (541) 476-3788

Fax : (541) 476-2313

GHD – Oregon

4550 Kruse Way, Suite 300
Lake Oswego, OR 97035

Phone : (971) 925-3740

Fax : (971) 925-3768

GHD – California

718 Third Street
Eureka, CA 95501

Phone : (707) 443-8326

Fax : (707) 443-8330

OUR EXPERIENCE

Kiewit – Waterman Water Treatment Plant

Waterman Water Treatment Plant Project was to increase its capacity from 15 million gallons per day to 30 million gallons per day. The project scope involved adding ozone process capacity as well as new clarification process equipment. In an effort to modernize the plant, many of its existing facilities were completely or partially upgraded.

Kiewit – Raw Water Facilities

Willamette Water Supply Program, the Raw Water Facilities project is to increase the pumping capacity to 60 mgd of the pump station, seismically reinforce the Willamette River bank, increase the intake capacity through new fish screens, build a new electrical building and standby power, and build a new pipeline.

Kiewit – Columbia Blvd CM/GC

The project consists of secondary treatment expansion with the addition of two 150-feet diameter secondary clarifiers, which will require other facilities to be demolished and replaced. Includes complete upgrade of the plant’s solids thickening and dewatering facilities and the relocation of the critical medium voltage switchgear, transformers, and motor control centers.

Kiewit – Pinole-Hercules

This project was to increase the Pinole-Hercules water treatment plant’s capacity by 20 mgd. The project included a new solids handling building, head-works, influent pump station, gravity sludge thickener facility, 3 new secondary clarifiers, an extension of the existing aeration basin structure, UV disinfection channels, upgrades to many of the pumping stations.

Kiewit – Santa Monica Water Improvement Project

The project is to build a 1 mgd water treatment plant under a parking lot to treat sewer and stormwater for eventual Indirect Potable Reuse, and upgrade the City’s 0.5 mgd recycled water treatment plant.

Kiewit – Brightwater Solids

The project was to upgrade the solids treatment of the Brightwater Treatment plant in Woodinville, WA. The project included 3 new digesters, an odor control system, upgrades to pumping systems and mechanical processes, new solids handling building, and a new electrical building.

Kiewit – Brightwater Pump Station

The project was to upgrade the influent pumping capacity of the Brightwater Treatment plant in Woodinville, WA. Included a 130 mgd pump station, a new generator building with three 2.8 MW diesel generators, a new influent structure, odor control systems, and upgrades to the associated mechanical and electrical systems.

Ausland Group – City of Grants Pass Influent Pumping & Screening

The influent pumping system was modernized with a new pumping system capable of pumping 41 million gallons of wastewater per day; tripling the plant’s intake capacity. Work also included new slide gates at headworks, new screening structure, and a new auger grit conveyor system.

Ausland Group – Grants Pass Water Reclamation Plant UV Disinfection System

Ausland installed a UV Disinfection System (16 mgd) at the Grants Pass Water Reclamation Plant. The project included the removal and disposal of the existing Trojan 4000 UV disinfection system and built a new concrete influent channel into the treatment system. The entire system had to remain functional during construction.

Ausland Group – Grants Pass Hilltop Pump Station

Ausland Group installed a new booster pump station for the City of Grants Pass within an established residential neighborhood on Hillcrest Drive. Two 100 hp pumps were installed inside a new booster station with a related tank and generator. MWC Conrad and Rossanley Pump Stations – The project consisted of improvements at two separate facilities located in Medford, Conrad and Rossanley Control Stations. The two stations provide the dual functions of pumping water during the summer season and reducing the pressure of water between service zones during the winter season. A 125 hp vertical and 500 hp horizontal centrifugal pumps were installed.

Ausland Group – Medford Waster Water Reclamation Plant Aeration Basins

Work included doubling the diffuser capacity of the aeration basin, modifications to primary sedimentation basins, new slide gates, new downward opening weir gates, air header upgrades, a new submersible mixer, and new sluice gates to facilitate bypass capabilities. The project also included a temporary bypass with a pumping capacity of over 25 million gallons per day.

Ausland Group – AllCare Health Headquarters

Ausland designed and built this $13M landmark for the medical community in Southern Oregon. The headquarters serves the local independent physician community and is complete with offices, a training center, and community rooms. AllCare established a goal for over 75% local labor on the project which Ausland exceeded with our vast knowledge of the subcontracting market.

GHD – Lenain Water Treatment Plant Rehabilitation and Expansion

This project was to increase the plant’s capacity to treat water from 15 MGD to 20 MGD. The project also consisted of the construction of new pipelines, the rehabilitation of the boat ramp; a backup power generator, as well as electrical, structural, and seismic improvements to the treatment plant facilities.

GHD – Otay Water Treatment Plant Disinfection Conversion

This project replaced chlorine gas storage and feed equipment with an on-site sodium hypochlorite generation system and a separate utility supply for the hypochlorite generator was provided.

GHD – Albert Robles Center Advanced Water Treatment Plant

The Water Replenishment District of Southern California’s Albert Robles Center Advanced Water Treatment Facility (formerly GRIP) Design-Build project is increasing the facility’s capacity from 13 mgd to an ultimate capacity of 25 mgd, treating tertiary effluent from the Los Angeles County Sanitation District using ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis followed by advanced oxidation. Onondaga County Water Authority – The upgrade project included the design and construction of tertiary biological aerated filters (BAF) for year-round ammonia removal; a high-rate flocculated settling system (HRFS) for achieving Stage II phosphorus removal and an ultraviolet system for disinfection. Prior to design, pilot testing was performed to determine design criteria and demonstrate performance capabilities for BAF and HRFS systems.

GHD – West Chester County

This project developed a pilot wastewater treatment plant asset management plan to integrate asset life cycle analysis, data collection, work processes, condition assessment, business case development investment prioritization schemes, decision analysis, project planning, and performance measurement. At the completion of the pilot program, the County was in a strong position to implement asset management practices across its portfolio of wastewater treatment facilities.

Kiewit Infrastructure West Co.

  • Waterman Water Treatment Plant
  • Raw Water 2.0
  • Columbia Blvd CM/GC
  • Pinole-Hercules
  • Santa Monica Water Improvement Project
  • Brightwater Solids
  • Brightwater Pump Station

Ausland Group

  • City of Grants Pass Influent Pumping & Screening
  • Grants Pass Water Reclamation Plant UV Disinfection System
  • Grants Pass Hilltop Pump Station
  • MWC Conrad and Rossanley Pump Stations
  • Medford Waster Water Reclamation Plant Aeration Basins
  • USDA Herbert Stone Nursery Pump Station

GHD

  • Lenain Water Treatment Plant Rehabilitation and Expansion
  • Waterman Water Treatment Plant
  • Otay Water Treatment Plant Disinfection Conversion
  • Albert Robles Center Advance Water Treatment Plant
  • Onondaga County Water Authority
  • West Chester County

If you’re an individual looking to be hired directly by Kiewit in one of the onsite construction trades, please take the survey below so that we can understand your desired position and abilities. As the actual construction work won’t begin until early 2023, we are not currently hiring for these positions but we’ll use this survey information to document your interest for future follow-up.

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