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July 13, 1-2 p.m.
Construction in Challenging Times: Lessons Learned From the Ongoing Progressive Design Build of Union County's Yadkin Water Supply Project Jonathan Lapsley, CDM Smith Approved for 1.0 credit hour for Water and PE Webinar Description: Union County and the Town of Norwood, NC, are working to ensure a long-term, sustainable water supply for current and future residents in the Yadkin River Basin. The infrastructure of the Yadkin Regional Water Supply project includes a new water intake and pump station on Lake Tillery in Norwood; a raw water supply pipeline to convey the supply to a new greenfield water treatment plant (WTP) in Union County; and a new finished water pipeline to convey treated drinking water to the residents of Union County. Union County selected the design-build delivery method to implement the WTP and finished water pipeline components of the project, working in collaboration with Union County Engineering and Operations staff, CDM Smith, and Program Manager, HDR. The County recognized the unique demands of the Yadkin Regional Water Supply Project and determined early in the project process that an integrated project delivery method would yield distinct advantages over a traditional design-bid-build approach. With the support of the County program manager, multiple delivery methods were evaluated including Construction Manager at Risk (CMAR), fixed price design-build, and progressive design-build. Progressive design-build was selected as the project delivery method as it offered the greatest flexibility and least risk to the County to implement this $303.8M+ program of improvements to deliver sustainable water to the residents of Union County. The design-build project delivery approach has yielded the desired outcomes for the County. Design-build teams were selected based on qualifications, laying the foundation for success by engaging partners with extensive experience in the industry and project delivery method. The project has also realized an accelerated delivery schedule, cost certainty, and an innovative, collaborative, and value driven approach to the design. This presentation will highlight project developments over the last 12 months building on the presentation from the 2021 Annual Conference which concentrated on the design development and initial construction activities. This update will focus on the procurement and construction activities associated with the progressive design-build delivery method for the 12-mgd WTP and approximately 10 miles of finished water pipeline. Topics to be elaborated on during the presentation will include: - Supply chain and escalation management strategies including schedule adjustments
- Construction restrictions and practices during COVID-19Value engineering/cost reduction strategies during construction
- Commissioning planning and coordination
- Overall construction update and progress.
Pricing: - Cost is $30 per attendee.
Webinar Information and Requirements: Webinar Technical Requirements - NC One Water will provide each attendee with the link to access the webinar and call-in audio instructions. NC One Water is not responsible for technical support before, during or after the webinar.
- Attendees must ensure that they have the needed equipment, that it is functioning, that it is compatible with the webinar system and that they know how to use it.
- Refunds will be handled according to NC One Water’s current seminar refund policy and will not be issued for attendees that experience technical or equipment failures during the webinar.
- NC One Water webinars are conducted using Zoom. It is highly recommended that you test your computers compatibility before planning to attend a webinar. How-to videos and additional Zoom resources can be found here: https://learn-zoom.us/show-me.
- To participate in the webinar, you must have access to a computer with an internet connection AND an audio connection (phone line or VOIP connection). It is recommended that you participate from a semi-private, quite location where there will be few distractions.
Webinar Continuing Education Units Requirements - Attendees must be on camera at all times during the presentation. Visibility and participation will be monitored. Failure to participate and be visible will result in no CEUs being given.
- Attendees must pre-register and provide a valid certification numbers issued by the NCWPCSOCC, NCWTFOB or NC Professional Engineers.
- Attendees must be logged in at the beginning and must remain logged in through the end of the session. Attendees must promptly respond to brief quizzes that appear randomly throughout the webinar.
- Each attendee must be logged into a separate computer so that their participation may be accurately tracked.
- No partial credit will be given.
- After the webinar, NC One Water staff will email CEU documentation/certificates to attendees meeting the CEU requirements. Reports will also be sent to the appropriate certification boards.
- NC One Water will report all cases of fraudulent attendance to the appropriate licensing boards.
- Inability to complete CEU requirements due to technical difficulties will result in no CEU’s being issued.
Contact Hours: - Water Treatment Facility Operators, Distribution Operators, Cross Connection/Backflow Operators: This seminar is approved for 1 contact hour for continuing education by the NCWTFOCB. Course ID: 230126.
- Professional Engineers: This course is approved for 1 PDH.
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