AGC of America is proud to announce Sundt Construction, Inc. won the 2015 Alliant Build America environmental enhancement award for the Ocotillo Brine Reduction Facility project in Chandler, Ariz. In addition, several green building projects won awards or merit recognition under separate categories such as buildings, renovations, design-build highway and transportation, and international work.
The Alliant Build America Awards offers a category that focuses solely on the environmental aspects of a project such as wetland mitigation, ground water clean-up or reclaiming and/or remediating an environmentally contaminated site (e.g., brownfields, superfund, illegal dumping site, and abandoned mine). The request for entry submissions usually begins in the early fall, and AGC announces the opportunity in the Observer.
2015 Environmental Enhancement Award
Ocotillo Brine Reduction Facility
Chandler, AZ
Sundt Construction, Inc.
Lead Architect: Sundt Construction, Inc.
Lead Engineer: Gregory K. Ayres
With additional waste streaming to the City of Chandler’s Reserve Osmosis (RO) Facility for treatment and reclamation after the expansion of the Ocotillo campus of a global semiconductor manufacturer, Sundt was enlisted to make significant upgrades to the current facility, including increasing the treatment capacity and other upgrades to the brine treatment and management processes. Working together with the manufacturer, the City of Chandler, Maricopa County, the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ), and various utility companies, the Sundt team was highly successful in meeting the goal held by all stakeholders involved. The volume of brine leaving the RO facility has been reduced to less than 60 gallons per minute. It also allows for the recovery of a high quality water product for use at the manufacturing campus, offsetting its potable water demands.
Additional Environmentally-Friendly Winning Projects
Many former and current winners of the Alliant Build America awards, outside of the environmental enhancement category, also include environmental elements into their submissions, for example, achieving a green building certification. In fact, four of the 2015 award winners in other categories included green building projects.
- Kalamazoo College Arcus Center– Building under $10M New
- Hall of Justice – Repair & Reuse Project – Building Renovation $11M to $199M
- Denver Union Station Transit Improvements – Design-Build Highway & Transportation; Marvin M. Black Partnering Excellence Merit Award Winner
- U.S. Embassy in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea – International
You can read about these projects and other award winners in the 2015 Alliant Build America Awards Program. More information on AGC Awards opportunities is online at www.agc.org/awards.
If you have questions, please contact Joanna Goldfarb at goldfarbj@agc.org or Elisa Brewer Pratt at brewere@agc.org.