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Florida-Based
Engineering Firm
CH2M HILL Acquires Gee
& Jenson
DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 24,
2002--CH2M HILL, Inc. has acquired Gee & Jenson
Engineers-Architects-Planners, Inc., a 50-year-old, 200-person
planning and design firm based in West Palm Beach, Fla. The
acquisition represents a strategic move by both firms to increase
their spectrum of services to port and intermodal clients.
"This is a major step in our
strategy to become the industry leader in port facilities planning,
design and construction services," said Ralph Peterson, CH2M
HILL chairman and CEO. "Together we offer an even more powerful
array of services, and people who deliver solutions to help clients
remain competitive in a dynamic marketplace."
Gee & Jenson is ranked by
Engineering News-Record (ENR) as the eighth-largest port facilities
design firm in the United States. The firm provides planning,
architecture, engineering and construction administration services
for port structures and facilities, land development, and other
facilities projects, including transportation, water resources and
water/wastewater.
CH2M HILL is a diversified, global
firm providing a full range of services for infrastructure,
industrial, environmental and energy projects. With $2.6 billion in
2001 revenues, CH2M HILL is an environmental and infrastructure
industry leader and the fourth-largest port facilities design firm,
according to ENR's ranking.
Two key appointments were announced
in the combined organization within CH2M HILL's Transportation
Business Group. Gee & Jenson's chairman, Philip A. Crannell Jr.,
AIA, was appointed director of the Ports practice, and Donald L.
Goddeau, P.E., Gee & Jenson's president, was appointed
operations and project delivery leader for the Ports practice.
"We're excited about joining the
CH2M HILL family of companies," Crannell said. "With CH2M
HILL's full-service project delivery capability and wider
geographical scope, we can serve a greater number of clients in a
broader range of projects across the U.S. and around the
globe."
With offices in West Palm Beach, Cape
Canaveral, Coral Springs, Jacksonville, Orlando, Sarasota and Tampa,
Fla., Gee & Jenson executes projects primarily in the U.S.
Southeast Atlantic and Gulf Coast areas, Mexico and the Caribbean.
CH2M HILL is an employee-owned
company headquartered in Denver, Colo., with 12,000 personnel in
more than 165 offices worldwide. CH2M HILL helps clients plan,
design, manage, build, and operate facilities and systems that
improve quality of life, increase efficiency, safeguard public
health, and protect the environment.
Duluth, MN - Apprise Technologies,
Inc. continues to meet the needs of the growing commercial market
using ultraviolet light with the introduction of the UV Clean
Radiometer. This rugged, low cost handheld UV C radiometer is
designed to monitor UV light sources used in a wide range of UV C
applications from de-activating bacteria, viruses and other
primitive organisms in air and water, to the cleaning of sensitive
surfaces in the semiconductor industry. Critical to these
applications is the need to monitor the instantaneous irradiance of
UV C lamps inexpensively, quickly and with reproducible results.
The
UV Clean, the latest UV radiometer product released to the market by
Apprise, was designed to be an inexpensive measurement devise, which
delivers precise instantaneous irradiance readings. The Apprise UV
Clean uses a solid-state photodiode detector, which is extremely
stable with a low temperature coefficient to isolate the UV-C
radiation, and does not allow any out-of-band signal to contaminate
the reading.
The UV C probe comes standard with a
10 ft. cable and is hermetically enclosed for submersion to 6 ft.
The compact, size of the UV Clean is ideal for bench-top and field
use. The simple and reliable operation is well suited for even
novice users.
The UV Clean calibration is directly
traceable to a National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
NIST calibrated photodiode serves as the primary standard for UV
Clean calibration. The accuracy of the UV Clean is ±5% typical,
±10% maximum. Apprise Technologies offers calibration services at
their facility.
Apprise develops and sells sensor
delivery and management system to the industrial, regulatory,
scientific, and environmental monitoring and process control
markets. Their cutting edge technology is packaged in practical,
rugged, low cost equipment solutions that allow decision-makers to
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Class A Biosolids
Carmel Upgrades WWTP with BioPasteur
Process
CARY, N.C., Jan. 28, 2002 – The
city of Carmel, Ind., has selected the BioPasteur process by
USFilter’s Kruger Products to upgrade its wastewater treatment
plant. The patented BioPasteur process, the first of its kind in the
United States, will produce Class A biosolids allowing the city to
use the plant’s biosolids for beneficial reuse.
Dan
Miller, of Jones & Henry Engineers, says, “The City of Carmel
selected the BioPasteur process based upon the benefits the system
provided and compatibility with existing facilities. The major
benefits included: the production of a Class A biosolids desired by
local farmers and soil blenders without increasing solid volumes,
maximizing use of existing digester facilities, utilization of
generated methane gas, and a simple process which fits well into the
plant’s existing footprint and operational scheme.”
The BioPasteur process heats sludge
to 158°F (70°C) for a minimum of one hour to provide pathogen
destruction. The BioPasteur process consists of two main unit
operations—a heat exchanger system and holding vessels. The
process utilizes a traditional concentric pipe sludge heat exchanger
unit which has been modified to permit the controlled heating of
incoming unconditioned sludge and cooling of pasteurized sludge to
the digester target temperature after it exits the pathogen
reduction vessels. This recapturing of latent heat from hot sludge
makes this process an energy-efficient way to achieve pathogen
reduction.
The BioPasteur process is an
extremely small-footprint process that can easily be placed ahead of
an anaerobic digester system for the benefit of reducing pathogens
to Class A levels. The BioPasteur process also alleviates any risk
of pathogen short-circuiting.
As part of the WWTP’s system
upgrade, USFilter will work closely with the city of Carmel and
Jones & Henry Engineers, Ltd. to customize the BioPasteur
process to the plant’s specifications. Jones & Henry has been
working with the city of Carmel for over ten years and have been
evaluating biosolids treatment systems for the last three years.
Before deciding on the BioPasteur process, Jones & Henry and the
city evaluated numerous Class A technologies that would allow for
the beneficial reuse of the plant’s biosolids. The project will be
completed in the spring of 2003.
USFilter has developed a number of
innovative technologies to help municipalities manage their
biosolids. Technologies from digestion to pasteurization to
composting turn wastewater residuals into high-quality Class A
biosolids that are safe for land application. USFilter’s
cutting-edge Class A biosolids technologies and research, like the
BioPasteur process, help communities across the country recycle
material for return to the environment.
For more information visit the
company’s web sites at www.usfilter.com
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earlier this year of four of Weir's
largest submersible pump sets at Atlantic Pond pumping station,
which forms part of the Cork main drainage scheme in Ireland.
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CH2M HILL an employee owned global
engineering, design and construction firm, consistently ranking in
the TOP 10 E&C firms has a strategic International opening for a
seasoned PROJECT DEVELOPER for our Europe Middle East operations.
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