Water schemes worth at least $7.5bn are in the procurement and planning stages in Abu Dhabi. Besides, $1.1bn worth of projects within the sector are under construction.
WD News: Abu Dhabi Sewerage Services Company (ADSSC) is undertaking the bid evaluation process for the contract to design, build and operate a planned treated sewage effluent (TSE) polishing plant in Al-Wathba, Abu Dhabi.
Among those who had submitted a proposal for the contract are Spain’s Acciona, UAE-based Tecton Engineering, and a team comprising Spanish contractor Abengoa and local contracting company Emarat Aloula.
The plant is expected to have a design capacity of 700,000 cubic metres a day (cm/d), with the potential to expand this capacity to 950,000 cm/d in a subsequent phase.
The TSE facility will produce water for higher-end applications compared to TSE produced in a standard sewage treatment plant. It is one of the first major water treatment projects to be tendered by ADSSC in recent years. Canada’s Stantec is the project’s technical consultant.
Abu Dhabi has completed its complex $5.7bn strategic tunnel enhancement programme (Step), the Middle East’s first deep-tunnel sewer network. Developed to upgrade Abu Dhabi’s strained sewerage network, the majority of which was installed in the 1970s, Step consists of a 41-kilometre tunnel, starting on Abu Dhabi island and running south to the mainland, descending from 24 metres below ground level to a depth of 80 metres in some places.
Last year, ADSSC invited bids for contracts to rehabilitate Abu Dhabi’s and Al-Ain’s wastewater network infrastructure.
Source: MEED
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