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While GHD officially established a permanent presence in the US in 2004, several of our offices have been serving US markets for almost 60 years. Today, GHD employs over 350 people across 16 offices across the country.

We provide a comprehensive range of multi-disciplinary services across the wastewater, water, management consulting, civil engineering, energy and resources, and environmental sectors.

In everything we do, we look at projects from a total life-cycle perspective. Our services encompass all phases of a project or asset’s life including:

Feasibility studies and due diligence
Project planning and economic assessment
Energy and environmental assessment
Design and documentation
Project and program management
Construction management
Training, operations and maintenance
Facility/asset audits and management
Quality management and training

Alaskan Way Viaduct & Seawall

GHD has provided utility coordination and relocation design services throughout the two-mile long Alaskan Way Viaduct corridor in Seattle, Washington. GHD is responsible for data quality review for all utility mapping throughout the corridor, performing research of the City of Seattle’s GIS and other utility records dating back to 1900, resolving discrepancies, performing field checks, and integrating survey data.

We have completed conceptual utility relocation designs for the entire corridor, interfacing a full spectrum of public and private infrastructure in tightly constrained areas. GHD is preparing detailed designs of water utility and drainage improvements for phased construction packages along the Alaskan Way corridor.

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Desalination for California

GHD in collaboration with Butier Engineering Inc. (Butier) has been selected by Poseidon Resources to provide Owner’s Engineering services for the development, construction, and commissioning of the USD300 million Carlsbad Seawater Desalination Project.

The Carlsbad Desalination Project consists of a 50 million gallon (approximately 200 megalitres) per day seawater desalination plant and associated water delivery pipelines. The facility will be a model for other desalination projects needed by the State of California in its search to diversify drinking water supplies.

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Integrated Solid Waste Management Planning

Delaware County, New York

As part of Delaware County’s goal to continue to utilize their existing landfill site, they embarked on extensive efforts to redefine their solid waste management goals and objectives. In order to do so, the County assembled a team of planning specialists who focused on centralized and integrated solid waste management and watershed planning issues.

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Wagon Trail Elementary School

Tsinaabaas Ha’bitiin (Wagon Trail) Elementary School is a rural education facility master planned for approximately 125 students and 25 faculty/staff. The school is located at The Gap, Arizona, approximately 70 miles north of Flagstaff in a remote area of the Navajo Nation. Planning for the new school began more than 30 years ago but land acquisition and funding issues meant the design phase of the project did not begin until 2002. GHD’s scope of work included water development, storage and distribution, wastewater treatment and disposal, site development, and construction administration.

GHD’s Terry Worcester, formerly of SSPW Architects, was the architect responsible for making the project a reality for the tribe and district. Construction of Wagon Trail Elementary School was completed in 2006.

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City of Charlotte asset management program – Charlotte, NC

The City of Charlotte, the largest municipality in the State of North Carolina, is a major hub of manufacturing, health care, education, transportation, culture and entertainment, and finance for a metropolitan area of approximately 1.35 million people. Charlotte manages over USD10 billion in citizens' assets amongst its fourteen business units.

The City is facing extensive population growth, system overuse, and persistent under-funding of repair, rehabilitation, and replacement of its infrastructure. To solve this situation, in October 2006 the City contracted a project team led by GHD to develop a framework for managing assets for the City and to develop the business case for implementing a cross-business work/asset management solution for all City departments.

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Airports	Asset Management	Aviation	Bridges
Climate Change	Dams	EIA	EMS & Audits
Intelligent Transport Solutions	Pavement Engineering	Rail	Railways
Roads & Highways	Roads Systems	Sustainability	Water Quality and Treatment
Water Sciences	Wastewater Systems	Wastewater Treatment	Water Efficiency
Waterways & Coastal	Water

Don Graf

Don leads our North American business, which includes our fledgling Canadian operation and our US operations, which have greatly expanded in the past 12 months. Most of his efforts are now spent on integrating the five firms in the USA into a single GHD, and in guiding our organic growth in Canada. His passion is providing for the professional and personal growth of our staff through client assignments.

Positon: Operating Centre Manager, North America
Tel: 1 949 250 0501

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Jerry Hook

Mr Hook has 32 years experience in the field of water resources engineering and has been responsible for the design and construction of over 30 major wastewater treatment plants for both public and private organizations. He has also been a consultant to The Coca Cola Company in the development of water efficiency toolkits and in providing training for wastewater facility operations around the world. He is an active member of the Water Environment Federation (WEF), the American Water Works Association and the National Society of Professional Engineers. He has served on the WEF House of Delegates and chaired several committees. He has a Master of Science from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Northeastern University in Boston and is registered as a Professional Engineer in seven states.

Position: President, GHD USA Inc.
Tel: 1 315 655 8161

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