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Metropolitan Treatment Plant (MTP)

Project Outline

  • Year: 2018
  • Location: Australia - Brisbane
  • Overall Cost: AUD $8B over 10 years
  • Client: Queensland Urban Utilities (QUU)
  • Positions Held: Principal Electrical and Control Systems Enigneer

Main Project Features

  • Multiple Water Treatment Plant (WTP)
  • Waste Water Treatment Plant (WWTP)
  • Life extension works
Metropolitan Treatment Plant (MTP)

Activities Performed

    • Daily client interaction and meetings with QUU over 5 separate works packages,
    • Site auditing and scope refinement, working with greenfield and brown field WTP and WWTP to incorporate power and control system upgrades to expand plant processing capabilities, higher efficiency, fault resilience and reliability improvements.
    • General plant inspections, safety audits, equipment replacement and defects rectification scoping and planning works.
    • Low and High Voltage electrical design and drafting including detailed design of switchboards, motor control centers, backup power systems (generator and UPS), earthing systems, circuit protection and coordination, cable sizing and installation, equipme
    • Fiber optics (Single Mode and Multimode) and Packet Radio (Microwave Band) Design Specialist
    • Control system detailed design engineer for Distributed Control Systems (DCS) Yokogowa, ABB, Struthers Dunn and Honeywell; SCADA, Programable Automation Controllers (PAC), Programmable Logic Controller (PLC), Remote Telemetry Units (RTU’s) Internet of
    • Detailed design of termination diagrams, loop diagrams, single line diagrams, plant layouts, plant lighting, inter disciplinary clash detection and negotiations, site construction supervision and auditing, creation of defects punch listing and remediati
    • Technical specialist and owners engineer for design and construction works, evaluation of payment milestone claims by the contractor, supervision and witnessing of installation testing (Earth Grids, Lightning Protection, I/O Checks, Bus Resistance)
    • Commissioning lead of power and control system (Transformers, HV protection relays, communications systems, plant instrumentation, SCADA graphics, sequence controls, interlocks, safety shutdowns),
    • PAC/PLC/RTU remote node panel design, backup power supplies, SCADA design, I/O allocation, general communication and IT network design.
    • Telemetry system design, IoT Design, development of control system philosophy and plant functional descriptions.
    • Equipment specification and production of data sheets.
    • Member of safety in design and risk management workshops, client and stakeholder expectation management, contractor liaison and negotiator, general project management oversite,
    • Project feasibility studies, risk assessments, capital planning and cash flow analysis..
    • Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT), Site Acceptance Testing (SAT) and commissioning.
    • Overall plant compliance signoff for electrical and instrumentation to relevant standards.
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