Wood Buffalo Water Treatment Expansion

Bird, in partnership with EPCOR and Ontario Power Generation (OPG), successfully delivered the new Darlington Water Treatment Plant—a critical infrastructure project ensuring a reliable supply of pharmaceutical-quality demineralized water to OPG’s nuclear steam systems for the next 30 years. This 2,800 sq. m. facility, located at the secure Darlington Nuclear Generating Station, was strategically designed and built outside the protected area, allowing operations to continue uninterrupted at the existing plant.

Bird led the design and construction of the Toronto Western Hospital wastewater energy transfer (“WET”), which uses thermal energy from wastewater flowing through the sewer to supply up to 90 percent of the campus' heating and cooling needs. Currently the world's largest raw wastewater energy transfer project, the system will provide over 19MW of low-carbon thermal energy to the hospital facility.

Due to the increase of construction activities in the area, there was a growing demand for potable water consumption in construction camps.

The new MacKenzie pump house and reservoir facility has increased the storage capacity of the MacKenzie reservoir to 14,750 cubic metres and the pumping capacity to 500 litres per second.

The Shell Jackpine project was constructed under a design-build contract and provides potable water treatment and wastewater treatment facilities for the Albian Sand's mine expansion.

The plant is able to produce 18 million litres of fresh water per day — more than doubling the previous capacity.