ALLIANCE PROJECT DELIVERY-BEGA VALLEY SEWERAGE PROGRAM BACKGROUND

摘要

The Bega Valley Sewerage Program (BVSP), in rural southeast New South Wales, is a $60 million alliance formed in October 2003 between Tenix Alliance and the Bega Valley Shire Council (BVSC) to upgrade five existing sewage treatment plants and install greenfield sewerage systems for five villages in the region. Tenix Alliance will subsequently operate the ten facilities for BVSC until 2017. The BVSP has developed unique project delivery concepts, which can easily be adopted by local utilities and the water industry at large. These include applying the commercial principles developed by the BVSC, incorporating environmental approvals and community engagement within the scope of works, and pioneering an innovative commercial framework. The technology that the program has adopted is relatively new, and involves updating the existing treatment plants to Biological Nutrient Removal (BNR) facilities and in the villages using pressure sewerage systems in conjunction with Membrane Bio-Reactors (MBR) to replace individual onsite treatment systems. Whilst this is considered innovative from a technological perspective, the true innovation is in the project delivery.