Engineering
Designs, studies, projects and engineering for the water cycle
Engineering solutions for the water sector
- Feasibility and pre-feasibility studies
- Hydraulic infrastructure designs and projects
- Solutions for urban and industrial water treatment plants
- Infrastructure and O&M master plans
- Management and technical assistance in hydraulic works
- Study and implementation of automation and remote-control systems
- Installation of sensors and instrumentation
- Construction and calibration of hydraulic models for pressure and sewer networks
- Sectorization of drinking water distribution networks
- Implementation of smart metering and IoT technologies
- For urban, industrial and irrigation water treatment plants, from basic design to detailed engineering.
- Standard and personalized solutions based on extensive knowledge of basic operations.
- Optimal solutions for subsequent operations, considering O&M costs throughout a facility’s life span.
- Management and technical assistance services in the construction of hydraulic infrastructures, undertaking their direct construction, if requested by the client.
- Highly complex hydraulic infrastructure construction projects
- Procurement, quality control (QC), health and safety (H&S) and commissioning.
- Extensive experience in carrying out improvements in operational treatment plants, minimizing the impact on production.
- Comprehensive audit of the water system to evaluate what condition it is in from different perspectives, detecting shortcomings, weaknesses and opportunities for improvement.
- Proposals, preliminary designs and prioritization of the work required to modernize and improve the system, and adapt it to urban and industrial growth plans.
- Systems for hydraulic and industrial infrastructures
- Implementation of Smart SCADA systems, analysis of trends and historical series, and integration with Big Data databases
- Design of communication systems, channel redundancy and station criticality studies
- Selection of sensors, maintenance and calibration plans
- Smart programming and demand forecasting
- Management of events and alarms, integrating them into warning systems
- Generation and prioritization of work orders
- Design and assessment of pilot plants aimed at testing new treatment lines.
- Competitive testing of specific technological solutions for new unit treatments
- In-depth studies of hydraulic facilities, providing greater knowledge of facilities and processes.
- Reduction of consumption and optimization of the facility’s operation, thus extending the life cycle of assets.
- Application of mathematical models to study pressurized networks in steady flow and transient situations.
- Studies on urban flooding, including data on surface runoff, and comprehensive analysis of overflows in sanitation systems for sewerage and drainage networks.
- Water flow studies in tanks and treatment facilities using advanced computational fluid dynamics (CFD).
- Comparative analyses and studies on alternatives based on modeling.
- Application of fluid dynamic modeling techniques for the study and improvement of currents in reaction chambers and tanks, water aging and mixing processes.
- Improvement of pumping unit suction points.
- Introduction of the latest advances in reading and communication technologies in order to recognize meters as value-generating elements.
- Evolution of the way in which meters measuring drinking water at micro-level are read, compared to traditional systems, which are normally read on a quarterly basis.
- Implementation of remote meter readings and deployment of fixed networks for the transmission of hourly data to a centralized service.
- Client monitors and datamines the value of water consumption, as well as the rest of the information associated with the algorithms.
- Study of the distribution network and the proposal of optimal solutions to divide it into pressure and flow control sectors.
- Definition of the appropriate sector size for the network, taking into account the number of customers, surface area, topology and topography.
- Definition and design of the minimum amount of work required for sectorization, selecting the most appropriate equipment and communication systems.
- Control and monitoring tools after sectorization.
