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Process, hydraulic and structural design for treatment plants, intakes, tanks, pipelines, dams and buildings — through to BOQ and estimates.

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Our technical scope

Process, hydraulic and structural design produced in-house, asset by asset.

Design is where a project is either made buildable or quietly made expensive. Our drawings are prepared by engineers who have supervised construction, so a general arrangement reflects how the structure will actually be built and a bill of quantities reflects what the site will actually consume.

The scope below covers the assets we design most often. Each package runs from concept arrangement through to construction drawings, with BOQ and estimates where the engagement calls for them.

Water and sewerage

Treatment plants

General arrangement drawing of a water treatment plant

Water and Sewerage Treatment Plants

Water treatment plants from 1 MLD to 20 MLD, and sewage treatment plants on SBR, MBR and MBBR technology.

  • Process and hydraulic design
  • Hydraulic flow diagram
  • Process flow layout
  • General arrangement drawing (GAD)
  • Structural design and drawings
  • P&ID
Structural steel intake design drawing

Intake Well and Pump House

Intake structures including balancing structural steel designs and high intake wells on major rivers, with the approach bridges and allied structures that serve them.

  • Hydraulic design
  • General arrangement drawing
  • Structural design and drawing
  • Approach bridge and allied structures

Storage and distribution

Tanks and pipeline networks

Overhead tank structural design drawing

Overhead Tank

Overhead tanks and sumps from 50 KL to 2,500 KL, in RCC and in pre-fabricated zinc-alum panel construction on steel staging.

  • General arrangement drawing
  • Structural design and drawing
  • Staging and foundation design
Hydraulic flow diagram for a water treatment plant

Pipelines — RWRM, CWPM, CWFM, CWDN

Raw water rising mains, clear water pumping and gravity mains and distribution networks, in MS, DI and HDPE.

  • Hydraulic design and drawings
  • L-section development
  • BOQ and estimates

Water resources and structures

Dams, river works and buildings

Dam plan and typical section drawing

Dam, Stop Dam and River Diversion

Dams, barrages, weirs and river diversion structures, with the hydraulic and stability assessments required before approval.

  • Hydraulic design and assessment
  • Structural design and drawings
  • Dam stability analysis
  • Dam break analysis, slope protection and flood management planning
  • River front and bank development
  • BOQ and estimates
Pre-engineered building structure under erection

Buildings and Industrial Structures

Structural design and detailing for buildings, plants and warehouses, including pre-engineered and structural steel work.

  • Hospital buildings
  • Residential and commercial buildings
  • Plants and warehouses
  • Pre-engineered and structural steel buildings

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Track record in numbers

Design output to date

  • 20+WTP designs, 1 to 20 MLD
  • 10Sewage treatment plants
  • 10+Intake structure designs
  • 150Overhead tanks, 50 to 2,500 KL
  • 5,000 kmWater supply pipeline hydraulics
  • 1,000 kmSewer pipeline hydraulic design
  • 100 kmRoad design
  • 2Catchment area treatment plans

Have a design package to place?

Send the asset type, capacity and current stage, and we will tell you what we would need to start.

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