McLoughlin Point WWTP building wins LEED Gold

Nov. 17, 2021
AECOM recently announced the LEED certification of the McLoughlin Point Wastewater Treatment Plant’s Operations and Maintenance Building. The plant can treat 108 megaliters of wastewater per day to a tertiary level.

AECOM, a global infrastructure consulting firm, announced yesterday that it received LEED Gold certification from the Canada Green Building Council for the Capital Regional District’s (CRD) McLoughlin Point Wastewater Treatment Plant’s Operations and Maintenance (O&M) building in Victoria, British Columbia. The O&M building is one component of a CAD$775 million wastewater program undertaken by CRD.

The wastewater treatment plant and associated O&M facility were delivered by Harbour Resource Partners, a consortium of AECOM, Graham Construction and HDR. AECOM and Graham formed a design-build partnership leveraging AECOM’s wastewater design and environmental experience and Graham’s established construction capability. HDR was the architecture design lead, providing full architectural services, including an initial iterative design and site selection process.

Promoting sustainability and energy efficiency was a critical consideration to the design planning, architecture, building engineering and program construction management of the wastewater treatment program. The team examined CRD’s goals, project site context and sustainability targets at the outset to deliver an integrated plan and building process, leveraging the strength of their technical excellence in designing and constructing many large-scale, multi-phase water projects.

“Achieving LEED Gold certification is a testament to our team’s mission of providing transformative green and resilient infrastructure,” said Marc Devlin, chief executive of AECOM’s Canada region. “We are grateful to CRD and our project partners, including Graham Construction and HDR, in receiving this formal recognition from the Canada Green Building Council.”

Situated at a critically important location in Victoria, the McLoughlin Point Wastewater Treatment Plant was designed to minimize visual impacts from the water using mature landscaping and an observation deck. Unique features of the facility include an education and interpretive area to engage the community with the plant’s water cycle, local natural environment, and importance of stormwater management and a green roof that helps maintain onsite animal habitats and aids stormwater management.

In addition, the building’s relatively small footprint incorporates heat recovery from within the facility, with opportunity to extend these energy resources into the surrounding neighborhood in the future. The facility also includes electric vehicle charging stations, low consumption plumbing and lighting fixtures, and enhanced energy monitoring. Advanced construction and commissioning techniques were employed to reduce pollutions and waste as well as improve indoor air quality.

“Wastewater treatment plant projects always present complex environmental construction challenges. The CRD project was an extreme example of this, with the site being contaminated from its previous use and the location on a rocky headland in Victoria’s outer harbor,” said Ian Dickinson, Graham’s executive vice president, water. “Our team was able to address these challenges because Graham, AECOM and HDR worked as a fully integrated design-build team to create solutions that were cost effective and constructible. We are proud the project is recognized as LEED Gold certified.”

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