Award: Wastewater treatment project
Value: $200 million
Location: San Jose, California
Client: Cities of San Jose and Santa Clara
The second largest advanced wastewater treatment facility in the western U.S. is preparing for a major infrastructure upgrade.
The cities of San Jose and Santa Clara, California, which are joint owners of the San Jose-Santa Clara Regional Wastewater Facility, selected Jacobs as the progressive design-build contractor for a $200 million modernization of the plant, according to a news release. The work targets aging treatment systems and aims to improve reliability and meet future growth through 2077.
The Dallas-based contractor will deliver the upgrades under a design-build contract. Chicago-based Walsh Construction and Columbia, Maryland-based Structural Technologies will support the work as lead contracting partners, according to the release.
Jacobs will upgrade and replace mesophilic digesters at the plant. These improvements will reduce the amount of solids that need to be hauled offsite for disposal while also enhancing biogas production. That directly fuels the facility’s cogeneration system, which Jacobs also designed and built.
The scope also includes the construction of a new fats, oils and grease receiving station, which will accept high-strength waste from local businesses and convert it to clean energy. The addition will reduce natural gas consumption and lower greenhouse gas emissions at the facility, according to the release.
Jacobs expects the design approach to increase biogas output by up to 36% and reduce biosolids production by as much as 74 wet tons per day, equivalent to about the weight of 50 mid-size cars, per the release.
Additional water wins in Virginia
The award follows two other water wins for Jacobs for engineering and program management contracts with the City of Suffolk, Virginia, the company said in a separate release.
Those contracts aim to expand and modernize water and wastewater infrastructure. Scope of work includes the reduction of sanitary sewer overflows and the expansion of surface water treatment capacity.
Large contractors, including Jacobs, have touted the increased demand and availability of funding for municipal water construction as an ongoing, national trend on recent earnings calls.
