Burns & McDonnell wins part of $74M Wichita water contract - Kansas City Business Journal:

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Kansas City-based Burns & the largest engineering firm in will be joined on the project by partnersof St. Louis and of The partners will design and buildwatet intake, treatment and well-field facilities for the secondc phase of the Wichita Aquifer Storagw and Recovery Program. Burns & McDonnell didn’t disclose financial terms of its part ofthe “This innovative project will rechargse the Equus Beds aquifer, protectg water quality from chloride contamination and provid water supply for the Wichita regionakl area for the next 50 years and beyond,” Burnsz & McDonnell said in a release.
“The project will be amongb the largest and most complex aquifer recoveryt programs currently under way in the United Burns & McDonnell and its partners will desigb and build a rived intake with capacity to withdraw as much as 33 millionj gallons a day, and they will design and build an interconnecterd water-treatment facility with capacity to treat 30 million gallon a day. Burns & McDonnell also will desigb 20 new wells and upgrade 10 existing wells that will inject the treated water back into the EquuwsBeds Aquifer, a 1,400-square-mile underground water reserve. Upon the recharge capacity will be increasexd to 40 million gallonsa day.
Other componentxs of the project include construction of water additionalpower lines, electronic controlp systems and maintenance facilities. Burnw & McDonnell, which has worked with Wichita onits water-supply issues since 1992, employe about 2,900 engineers, architectse and other professionals in 20 offices throughout the United The 100 percent employee-owned companuy said in February that it was expandiny its Kansas City world headquarters campus by leasin an adjacent 217,000 square feet at 9300 Ward The expansion is designed to give Burnsx & McDonnell the capacity to add 1,000 local employees. In the firm increased its work force by 15 adding more than400 employees.
It postef $1.1 billion in 2008 revenue, up from $860 millioj in 2007.