Degremont and Besix win Jumeirah Golf Estates contract

A joint venture between Degremont of France and Besix of Belgium has won the 10-year design, build and operate contract for a 220,000 cubic-metre-a-day sewage system being built for Dubai's Palm Water under its utilities concession for Jumeirah Golf Estates, a division of Nakheel also of Dubai.

United Arab Emirates: Tuesday, December 11 - 2007 at 15:35
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The project calls for the sewage treatment plant to use membrane biological reactor (MBR) technology, making it the largest unit of its type announced so far in the world. It will also have 13km of sewer pipes.

Ghassan Ejjeh, director of Besix, the told MEED's Wastewater Treatment & Reuse 2007 conference in Abu Dhabi that the project including the operations would be worth about Dhs3bn ($800m).

Degremont is leading the construction. Besix will be responsible for the sewerage network construction.
Jumeirah Golf Estates will have 900,000 inhabitants and four golf courses. The water plan calls for the complete reuse of all treated effluent in the project.

The sewage treatment plant will be covered and deodorized. Sludge will be dried for potential further use. Degremont will provide the sludge drying equipment.

By Edmund O'Sullivan


Staff Staff
Tuesday, December 11 - 2007 at 15:35 UAE local time (GMT+4)

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