Utility infrastructure projects require integrating design-build, equipment, technologies, and operations, and financing to meet specific process operations and business goals and objectives.
The Utility Services Group works within a project team environment to first identify necessary process and business needs. O’Brien & Gere then selects technologies, creates customized solutions to fill any technology gaps, and delivers an integrated product that meets your process and business goals. These Integrated Process Systems & Technology services are incorporated into our 360° Delivery Process™ to ensure a turnkey solution, including fabrication and shop testing at O’Brien & Gere’s 60,000 square foot R&D and Fabrication Facility. The system is integrated into the overall engineering and project delivery solution and delivered, commissioned along with continued operation and financing options.
Key capabilities related to each of our 360° Delivery Options™ include all aspects of the design, build, operations, financing, and ownership and management of all components of water and wastewater infrastructure.
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The Utility Services Group understands the potential risk and impact that facilities, industrial process and waste remediation issues can have on a financial structure and the ability to operate. O’Brien & Gere’s 360° Delivery Process™ addresses these concerns by offering integrated engineering and construction services, via a design-build project approach.
The design-build construction alternative is a method of reducing costs while enhancing construction quality. In a design-build contractual arrangement, the contractor and the engineer work together from project conception to ensure economy and constructability. In addition to increased cost efficiencies resulting from the design-build arrangement, the owner is assured that construction phase services are performed by a contractor with a thorough understanding of the project’s design criteria.
The Utility Services Group has completed over $250 million of design-build projects within the past 2 years. Projects include core competencies in the following areas:
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O'Brien & Gere maintains strong alliances with academic institutions, technology firms, and sources of capital to:
- Identify and evaluate emerging technologies in the marketplace
- Oversee research, development, and technology demonstrations
- Commercialize and integrate new technologies in client projects
- Publish results to the engineering and scientific community
- Mentor junior staff development along a technical track
- Water, wastewater treatment processes
- Advanced Treatment Technology
- Online, Remote Sensing, Process / System Controls
- Continuous Upgrades
- Construction
- Operation / Maintenance
- Sustainability
ARROW™ Advanced Water Treatment
Utilized for the recycle and recovery of wastewater, ARROW™ purifies water and wastewater using reverse osmosis membranes, ultimately reducing reject volume up to 100%.
ARROW™, Advanced Water Treatment.
Source Sentinel, LLC, Water Security Detection Source Sentinel, LLC provides near-instantaneous situational awareness for the decision-makers responsible for the safety and monitoring of drinking water.
www.SourceSentinel.com
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The Utility Services Group utilizes expertise in Control Systems Integration to provide specialized design, fabrication, and installation of instrumentation and control systems to automate your utility infrastructure. O’Brien & Gere goes beyond systems integration to include process engineers, electrical engineers, mechanical engineers, and IT professionals. This enables the firm to provide real value engineering in areas beyond the traditional systems integration boundaries.
- Control Systems Design
- Assembly and Fabrication
- Field Installation
- PLC Programming & HMI Systems
- Startup and Commissioning
- Enterprise Information Management
Financing solutions for either upgrades of existing facilities or construction on new facilities are a continuation of O’Brien & Gere’s commitment to providing a total water solution. Financial resources for both project financing and asset acquisition is provided by O’Brien & Gere through a financial structure that the firm has established with private equity and debt financing partners for a total capacity of $300 million.
Over the past two years, O’Brien & Gere has designed and constructed over $250 million of water and wastewater utility infrastructure projects. Target markets include water and wastewater projects for the food & beverage, pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. These industries use a significant amount of high quality water. They are also under competitive pressures to reduce utility costs and show a greater return on their operating assets.
Our financial management results in the following:
- Increase return on assets
- Reduce cost of ownership
- Stabilize future operating costs
- Level capital improvements expenditures
- Allows financing of core operation
In today’s economy, it has become increasingly important to keep systems operating at peak performance. O’Brien & Gere has over 60 years of experience providing clients with emergency and preventative operations and maintenance services. O'Brien & Gere's operating services can be applied to many types of systems and equipment, including heat processing, water treatment, wastewater treatment, and cooling towers. The firm also offers a variety of comprehensive solutions designed to support the clients’ best interests while protecting valuable investments and assets.
O’Brien & Gere’s operations and maintenance services result in the following:
- Increase Utility Efficiency
- Maintain Quality, Reliability, and Safety
- Optimize Unit Processes
- Transfer Regulatory Responsibility
- Leverage O’Brien & Gere’s best Management Practices
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