MILESTONES

Water/Wastewater

Earth Tech has designed, built and/or operates sewer, water and wastewater treatment infrastructure that serves more than 40 million worldwide .
The joint venture between Earth Tech and Changli, China, represents the first time the Chinese government and a U.S. company have made a direct investment in a water supply project in China and the first involving any foreigner directly servicing customers.
Earth Tech recycles 10 percent of the wastewater in Australia—by far the most by any company doing so in the country.
Earth Tech provided design, construction, finance and operations services for the largest membrane wastewater treatment facility that will produce Class A recycled water in Australia. (Eastern Irrigation Scheme, Melbourne Water, Australia)
Earth Tech’s water treatment plants in Beverly Hills, California, and wastewater treatment facilities in Quincy, Washington, were the first water infrastructure facilities in the two states to be designed, built, financed and operated by a private company.
Earth Tech provided engineering and construction management services for the $3.6 billion Boston Harbor Wastewater project, the largest of its type undertaken in the United States.
Earth Tech provides capital program management services for the largest water treatment plant in the world, the Jardine Water Treatment Plant in Chicago.
Earth Tech has worked on more wastewater treatment plants than any other firm in Canada, including the Ashbridges Bay Treatment Plant in Toronto, the largest in the nation.
Earth Tech managed the construction of a new water treatment facility in Boston, MA. Brought online in 2005, this plant is the largest water treatment facility in New England. (John J. Carroll Water Treatment Plant, Massachusetts Water Resources Authority).
Earth Tech’s Aquatrine Project, in collaboration with the Ministry of Defence, is one of the largest public/private water infrastructure partnership in the United Kingdom covering over 1,000 military installations
Earth Tech expanded and upgraded the wastewater facilities at the largest oil refinery in Hungary.
Earth Tech provides about two-thirds (more than 66 percent) of the water needed for Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX), Mexico’s national petroleum company. Earth Tech processes and cleans the water used in the refinery process so it can be reused as part of a “zero discharge” system.

Transportation

Earth Tech designed and built the longest spanning light rail transit bridge in the world in British Columbia, Canada. ( Skytrain Bridge, Vancouver, British Columbia)
Earth Tech designed the first modern roundabout interchange in Canada to solve traffic problems. ( Alberta Transportation, Fort McMurray, Alberta).
Earth Tech is leading the design of the first Aircraft Group VI runway at Chicago O’Hare International Airport for the new “next generation” aircraft.
Earth Tech led the design of the Miami Intermodal Center, a 1.2 million-square-foot transportation hub located adjacent to the Miami International Airport that has been designated a “Project of National Significance” by the U.S. Department of Transportation.

Environmental and Remediation

Earth Tech provided emergency response services to remove debris at the World Trade Center after 9-11 and after the Columbia space shuttle crash and Hurricane Katrina; and after the ricin and anthrax contaminations in Washington, D.C.
Earth Tech operates the largest municipal biosolids composting facility in North America for the City of Edmonton in Alberta, Canada.
Earth Tech treated more than 1.3 million cubic yards of soil as part of one of the largest soil bioremediation projects in the United States at a former refinery site in Carson, California, making the land suitable for commercial use.
Earth Tech provided emergency response cleanup services for the Avtex Fibers site in Virginia, the largest U.S. EPA Superfund site in the eastern U.S.
Earth Tech assisted the National Imagery and Mapping Agency in the development of a geographic information system that encompasses the world.

Facilities

Earth Tech rebuilt the barracks, maintenance and administrative facilities and provided power generation, electrical distribution systems and constructed temporary water and wastewater systems for a military base outside of Baghdad as part of the first wave of a major U.S. government effort toward reconstruction of Iraq.
Earth Tech has modernized and upgraded more than 100 schools for the New York City School Construction Authority.
Earth Tech served as executive architect for the $150 million renovation of the Whitehall Ferry Terminal in lower Manhattan, which was constructed half over water and half over land straddling three subway line tunnels and the Battery Park underpass. Work on the project was completed under a full operating schedule accommodating 65,000 people per day.
Earth Tech provided civil, structural and environmental engineering and construction services for the National World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C., the first national memorial dedicated to all who served during World War II.
Earth Tech, along with Vancouver-based Patkau Architects, designed the Gleneagles Community Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia – the first building in North America to incorporate a BATISO system that combines thermoactive slabs, for radiant heating and cooling, with displacement ventilation. The project was one of just three in the United States and Canada recognized by the Integrated Design/Integrated Development Conference in 2004 for incorporating the surrounding environment and green building techniques into the design.