THORNTON WTP REPLACEMENT

Progressive Design-Build
Garney Construction and
Burns & McDonnell

 

With a rapid growth in population, the city of Thornton needed to replace its aging drinking water plant and make it resilient and robust enough to meet water demands 365 days a year, flexible enough to treat the multiple source waters, and have a robust taste and odor treatment system to mitigate algae-sourced challenges within Thornton's raw water storage reservoirs.

Thornton 6307 - Flying 70,000lb precast girders over the intake gallery for the upper deck-enhanced Faith

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  • How inovations and flexibility in the design helped operations
  • The drivers behind choosing PDB
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