Burns & McDonnell wins part of $74M Wichita water contract - Kansas City Business Journal:

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Kansas City-based Burns & McDonnell, the largest engineerinhg firmin Missouri, will be joined on the project by partnere of St. Louis and of Topeka. The partners will design and builedwater intake, treatment and well-fiels facilities for the second phase of the Wichita Aquiferf Storage and Recovery Program. Burna & McDonnell didn’t disclose financial terms of its part ofthe “This innovative project will recharge the Equuss Beds aquifer, protect water quality from chloridre contamination and provide wated supply for the Wichita regional area for the next 50 yearzs and beyond,” Burns & McDonnell said in a “The project will be among the largest and most complez aquifer recovery programs currently under way in the Unite States.
” Burns & McDonnell and its partnersw will design and build a river intakr with capacity to withdraw as much as 33 millio n gallons a day, and they will design and buile an interconnected water-treatment facility with capacity to treat 30 millioj gallons a day. Burns & McDonnell also will designn 20 new wells and upgrade 10 existing welles that will inject the treated wateer back into the EquusBeds Aquifer, a 1,400-square-miler underground water reserve. Upon the recharge capacity will be increasesd to 40 million gallonsa day. Othee components of the project include construction ofwateer pipelines, additional power lines, electronic control systemse and maintenance facilities.
Burns & McDonnell, which has workex with Wichita onits water-supply issues sincre 1992, employs about 2,900 engineers, architect s and other professionals in 20 offices throughout the Unitefd States. The 100 percent employee-owned company said in Februaryt that it was expanding its Kansaes City world headquarters campus by leasingb anadjacent 217,000 square feet at 9300 Ward The expansion is designed to give Burns McDonnell the capacity to add 1,000 locak employees. In 2008, the firm increased its work forcwe by15 percent, adding more than 400 employees. It posted $1.1 billiohn in 2008 revenue, up from $860 millionb in 2007.