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| Multiplex-Degremont JV delivers Perth Seawater Desalination Plant Multiplex Group announced that its joint venture with French-based international water treatment specialist, Degremont, has successfully started delivering drinking water into Perth's Integrated Water Supply Scheme via the $387 million Perth Seawater Desalination Plant, located in Kwinana. Developed for the Water Corporation of Western Australia, the Plant - which is the largest of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere and the third largest of its kind in the world - will provide 17 per cent of Perth's water requirements. The scope for the joint venture's $300 million design and construct contract included the seawater intake facility, pre-treatment, reverse osmosis desalination, drinking water potabilisation, pumping station and waste water treatment. Construction highlights of the plant, which is the first major seawater reverse osmosis plant to be delivered in Australia, include the incorporation of a state-of-the-art energy recovery system which substantially improves the plant's energy efficiency, and significant Australian industry participation, increasing from a targeted 60 per cent to 75 per cent. The plant will produce 45 gigalitres of water per year or 130 million litres per day, making it the largest single water source feeding into Perth's Integrated Water Supply Scheme. Electricity for the Plant will be sourced by the Water Corporation from the recently commissioned Emu Downs Wind Farm. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Construction News :: home page |