INSPIRING PROJECT


MWH/Webcor Team Raises the Bar for Local Hiring on Major San Francisco Infrastructure Project


BY CAROL EATON


Aerial of the BDFP project courtesy SFPUC F


or most of the people who live or work in San Francisco, the construction of an upgraded


facility to treat 80% of the City’s sewage and stormwater is a necessary invest- ment to keep their plumbing sys- tems running smoothly – but hardly a project that inspires a high degree of interest or excitement. Ask the residents and businesses


located in the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood what they think of the $2.7 billion Biosolids Digester Facilities Project (BDFP), however, and you may elicit a more enthusiastic response. Many of them have welcomed the opportunity for well-paying union jobs and contracts to help build this important infrastructure project, thanks to an impressive 30% local


hiring goal that is creating plenty of work in a historically marginalized Southeast corner of the City by the Bay. Te project’s Local Business Enter-


prise (LBE) goal, along with a similarly high Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) goal, were established by MWH Constructors and Webcor Builders, a joint venture (MWH/Webcor), the construction manager/general contractor hired by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) to build the new facility.


New Reliable, Efficient, Modern Facility Te new BDFP facility at the city’s South- east Treatment Plant (SEP) will replace and relocate the outdated existing solids treatment facility, originally built in 1952,


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with more reliable, efficient, and modern technologies. Engineering firms Brown & Caldwell, Jacobs, and Black & Veatch collaborated on the design of the project, with the goal to transform the existing SEP into a modern resource recovery


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