AECOM Secures Nitrogen Removal Project in US

AECOM Technology has won a $40m contract for the construction management of DC Water’s Enhanced Nitrogen Removal Program in Washington DC, US.

Under the five-year contract, AECOM will provide construction management services associated with projects at the nitrogen removal facilities at Washington DC’s Blue Plains Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant, which has a capacity of 370 million gallons per day.

The services will include enhanced nitrogen-removal facilities, a centrate-treatment facilities, Phase II gravity-thickener upgrades and a plant-wide fine-bubble aeration.

The project is scheduled for completion in 2016.