Overview

We help water infrastructure industry clients across the country provide the highest water quality service.

Clean drinking water is essential to healthy communities and a healthy nation. Today’s water and wastewater utilities face complex challenges in meeting the needs of rapidly growing populations, responding to new regulatory mandates, and overhauling aging infrastructures. This environment requires both utilities and the organizations that support them to meet and maintain a high standard of excellence.

PMA understands the challenges and provides solutions to successfully navigate a program to completion. By applying our technical expertise and extensive experience in overcoming unique project issues, we help clients across the country with building water infrastructure. Our oversight services improve project efficiency by controlling costs, schedules, risk, and work scope without compromising quality.

We have completed more than 500 water infrastructure construction projects, representing $32 billion in project value, on new, stressed, and aging water systems and infrastructure to meet the demands of growing communities and keep potable water viable in the populations these agencies serve.

Key Benefits

More than 500 completed water infrastructure projects, representing $32 billion in value, give owners a team that already understands the regulatory and technical demands of treatment and conveyance work.

Project teams coordinate directly with utility operators, design engineers, and regulatory agencies to keep treatment and conveyance systems online throughout construction.

Disciplined cost, schedule, and risk management keeps aging-infrastructure and expansion programs on track, protecting service continuity and compliance from award through closeout.

Water & Wastewater Treatment Facilities Markets

Water Treatment Plants

PMA supports new construction, expansion, and rehabilitation of water treatment plants—from planning and permitting through startup. Our project controls keep multi-phase upgrades on budget and on schedule while the plant continues producing potable water for the community it serves.

Wastewater Treatment Plants

Wastewater and water resource recovery facilities have to keep treating flow through construction, not just around it. PMA manages phasing, contractor coordination, and schedule risk so demolition, rebuilds, and process upgrades proceed without interrupting treatment or violating discharge permits.

Pump Stations & Conveyance Systems

Pump stations, outfalls, and combined sewer overflow facilities connect treatment to the communities they protect. PMA oversees cost, schedule, and contractor performance on conveyance and overflow-control projects that reduce risk to public health and the environment.

Featured Project

Ann Arbor Wastewater Treatment Plant Rehabilitation

The $115 million project completely demolished and rebuilt a third of the Ann Arbor Wastewater Treatment Plant and renovated the balance of the plant treatment trains. This 30-mgd plant project is the largest capital project in the city’s history. During construction, the plant remained operational at all times to treat wastewater while demolitions and renovations were taking place. The City of Ann Arbor Wastewater Treatment Plant project won the 2017 American Society of Civil Engineers Michigan section Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement Award. PMA provided owner’s representative service throughout design and construction. PMA created a preliminary construction schedule and supplemental cash flow analyses. Project controls services included schedule review, schedule analysis, and change order management; PMA also managed the contractor payment process. Other services included facilitating workshops to develop and review the baseline schedule requirement before contractor submittal and reviewing the contractor’s schedule submittal for compliance with the contract documents. PMA’s proactive approach helped deliver a high-quality end product under budget and on schedule.

Water & Wastewater Treatment Facilities