Course Outline

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Course Schedule

Week 1: Overview of a Water Treatment Plant Design Project

Learning Outcomes:

• Recognize the steps for the development of a water treatment project.
• Demonstrate knowledge of multi-discipline team roles.
• Recognize different project delivery platforms.
• Identify the major treatment processes that apply to water treatment plant design.
• Recognize support systems associated with water treatment plant design.

Topics:

• Introduction
• Today’s challenges
• Multi-discipline teams
• Project delivery
• Lifecycle of water treatment design projects
• Major treatment processes
• Design needs
• Summary

Week 2: Master Planning, Facilities Planning

Learning Outcomes:

• Identify the differences between master planning and facilities planning.
• Recognize components of a master plan.
• Recognize components of a facilities plan.
• Identify major influences on the planning process.
• Identify water quality goals, and treatment options.
• Evaluating options and selecting preferred alternatives.
• Estimating costs and developing schedules.

Topics:

• Master planning
• Facilities planning
• Planning influences
• Water quality goals and treatment options
• Evaluation treatment options
• Evaluating options
• Facilities implementation
• Summary

Week 3: Project Implementation

Learning Outcomes:

• Identify the steps for preliminary design.
• Recognize the process of final design.
• Demonstrate knowledge of QA/QC processes.
• Identify needs during bidding and construction.
• Start up, commissioning and acceptance of facilities.

Topics:

• Introduction
• Preliminary design
• Final design
• Design reviews and QA/QC
• Bidding
• Construction services and inspections
• Start up and commissioning
• Summary

Week 4: Source Development

Learning Outcomes:

• Identify potential source water alternatives.
• Identify water rights and allocations.
• Identify surface water development needs.
• Identify groundwater development steps.
• Identify the different types of intakes.
• Recognize where each intake type is applicable.
• Identify potential intake locations.
• Recognize the design requirements for each intake type.

Topics:

• Introduction
• Source water alternatives
• Surface water development
• Groundwater development
• Intake types
• Intake applications
• Intake siting
• Well siting
• Intake design
• Screening design
• Summary

Week 5: Process Selection

Learning Outcomes:

• Identify potential treatment processes to meet water quality goals.
• Recognize how processes interact.
• Identify methods to screen alternatives.
• Developing evaluation criteria.
• Recognizing how much information is needed to process selection.
• Ranking and rating methods.
• Cost implications.

Topics:

• Introduction
• Identification of process options
• Recognizing how treatment alternatives will interact
• Screening methods
• Evaluation criteria
• Developing information to support decision making
• Ranking and rating methods
• Summary

Week 6: Permitting and Code Requirements for Planning

Learning Outcomes:

• Assess operational needs of chemical feed systems.
• Evaluate pretreatment approaches.
• Explore how much operational time is needed for different types of plants.
• Investigate facility automation.
• Compare process control strategies.
• Consider ways to incorporate safety in design strategies.

Topics:

• Introduction
• Siting approval
• Working with permitting agencies
• Zoning
• Essential facilities designation
• Site permits and restrictions
• Site selection and plant arrangement
• Summary

Week 7: Sustainability and Reliability

Learning Outcomes:

• Recognize critical reliability strategies for water treatment plant design.
• Identify methods to increase reliability and minimize risks.
• Identify options for supplying water in the event of a critical failure.

Topics:

• Introduction
• Reliability
• Risk assessment
• Sustainability
• Equipment and process failures
• Catastrophic facility failures
• Equipment reliability
• Process reliability
• Facility reliability
• Emergency response planning
• Summary

Week 8: Energy Needs

Learning Outcomes:

• Identify methods to determine power needs.
• Recognize methods to reduce power needs.
• Recognize methods of traditional power supply.
• Identify alternative power ans demand management approaches.

Topics:

• Introduction
• Identifying energy needs
• Traditional approaches to water treatment energy design
• Alternative power supplies and the impacts on water treatment planning and design
• Backup power supply options
• Conservation
• Summary

Week 9: Testing and Preliminary Design

Learning Outcomes:

• Recognize the importance of bench and pilot testing.
• Identify times when pilot testing is not needed, or cannot be done.
• Identify how long bench and pilot testing data is needed, and what data can be collected.
• Recognize process problems that can be identified by testing.

Topics:

• Introduction
• Data collection for water treatment
• Bench testing
• Pilot testing
• Corrosion testing
• Customer acceptance testing
• Eliminating bench and pilot testing
• Preliminary design
• Summary

Week 10: Planning for Water Treatment Plant Design

Learning Outcomes:

• Recognize the needed roles and responsibilities of the owner’s and designer’s staffs.
• Identify factors that affect the design budget.
• Identify factors that affect the design schedule.
• Recognize how to select a designer.

Topics:

• Introduction
• Planning for design
• Budgeting for design
• Scheduling the design
• Record keeping and administration
• Planning for changes during the design
• Selecting a designer
• Negotiating a design contract
• Summary

Week 11: Planning for Bidding and Construction

Learning Outcomes:

• Identify differences in construction approaches.
• Recognize the key contract concerns with each type.
• Compare and contrast different approaches to construction.

Topics:

• Introduction
• Why start early
• Traditional bidding and construction
• Construction manager at risk
• Price based design build
• Progressive design build projects
• Other construction activities that require pre-planning
• Summary

Week 12: Cost Estimating and Financing

Learning Outcomes:

• Identify cost estimating levels.
• Recognize elements included in a cost estimation.
• Cost curves and other methods of estimating costs.
• Identify escalation methods, materials costs, labor costs and locations differences.

Topics:

• Introduction
• Introduction to cost estimating
• How are costs estimated
• Costs factors
• Mitigating cost risks
• Contingency
• What is the value of water?
• Summary

This course outline is subject to change.

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