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Shannon Airport WWTW-Design, Build & Operate
| Value: | €2,500,000 (Civil: €1,100,000) |
| Client: | Shannon Airport Authority, Shannon Airport, Shannon, Co. Clare. |
| Consultant: | Nicholas O’Dwyer Ltd., Nutgrove Office Park, Nutgrove Avenue, Rathfarnham, Dublin 14 |
| Completion Date: | October 2007 |
| Involvement: | Main Contractor / PSCS, 100% participation |
This Contract involved the design and construction of a new wastewater treatment plant at Shannon Airport to cater for a population equivalent of 5000 people. The Project was procured as a 20 year Design, Build and Operate Contract. Ward & Burke Construction were responsible for all civil design and construction. The M&E works were carried out by Response Engineering.
An outlying pumping station (Knockbeg) was constructed to pump the effluent to the Treatment Works, via a 1500m rising main, with treated final effluent pumped and discharged at this site also.
Civil construction on the treatment works site consisted of:
- Aeration tanks
- Clarifiers,
- Inlet works,
- Pump sumps,
- Control Building
- Treatment process:
- Automatic Screening
- Grit Removal
- Forward Feed Pumps
- Biotank
- Clarifier
- Sludge thickening
- Final Effluent pumping to outfall