Water engineering firm Black & Veatch has completed the first phase of consultancy services for Singapore’s national water agency for the development of the country’s second large-scale seawater desalination plant.
B&V is preparing the tender documents for the plant, under a design-build-own-operate (DBOO) arrangement. The tender was called on June 30.
At 70 million imperial gallons per day, the new plant will be PUB’s fourth and largest Public Private Partnership (PPP) venture to date and one of the largest seawater reverse osmosis desalination plants in Asia.
The plant will be a key element in PUB’s holistic approach to water management and will help realise the country’s goal of achieving water self-sufficiency by 2061. The plant will be constructed in Tuas, Singapore.
Black & Veatch will continue to provide consultancy services to PUB during the delivery of the new plant.
Singapore’s first large-scale desalination plant, the SingSpring Desalination Plant, began commercial operation in 2005 and was the country’s first PPP. Owned and operated by SingSpring, a Hyflux Group company, the plant has a capacity of 30 million imperial gallons (136,000 m3/d).
Black & Veatch has been involved in the development of Singapore water supply systems since 1922.
