Scottsdale Booster Station

Scottsdale Booster Station

The City of Scottsdale commissioned GHD to design Booster Pump Station Number 179 (BPS179) to provide water pressure to the downtown Scottsdale area. The station serves as a dual purpose facility. It supplies potable water at a higher pressure to serve new high rise commercial and residential condominium projects.  It also serves as a link to the downtown arts district. The project’s architecture complements the atmosphere of downtown Scottsdale.

The booster station received the prestigious 2009 Grand Award for Engineering Excellence from American Council of Engineering Companies of Arizona.  It has also be honored by the Arizona Masonry Build, the American Public Works Association (Arizona), the American Academy of Environmental Engineers, the American Society of Civil Engineers and Southwest Contractor magazine.

BPS179 features 3 main vertical turbine pumps. Each pump operates at 1800 RPM and is also equipped with variable frequency drives to maintain water pressure in the system. The pumping system includes an additional standby pump for full redundancy in case of maintenance or unexpected equipment failure. A 30” diameter suction pipe and 24” diameter discharge pipe were designed and installed for this project. The pump station site is equipped with a 5,000 gallon hydropneumatic tank system to maintain line pressure, minimize pumping start/stop cycles and dampen hydraulic surges in the system. The project was also designed to accommodate a gaseous chlorine disinfection system.

The pump station is strategically located along Indian School Road to draw water from a lower pressure zone and discharge into a new transmission main on Goldwater Blvd.  This project is part of the Downtown Scottsdale Revitalization program.  The objectives of the project were met by assimilating an aesthetically and functional pump station within the Downtown arts district. 

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GHD continues to build on its highly regarded reputation for delivering award winning public buildings and civic spaces covering:

  • Exhibiting buildings and convention centres
  • Concert halls and theatres
  • Churches, mosques and temples
  • Town halls and council chambers
  • Libraries
  • Civil defence and emergency services facilities
  • Police stations, court houses and justice facilities
  • Prisons and detention centres

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  • Master Planning
  • Community consultation
  • Urban Design & Architecture
  • Landscape Architecture
  • Infrastructure planning and design
  • Transport planning and traffic engineering
  • Coastal planning
  • Environmental services
  • Sustainability consulting
  • Asset and facilities management
  • Project and construction management

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Tel: 86 1059301688 or 86 13810238366
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Water

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As the world’s population grows and our standards of living improve so does our need to manage the water in our environment. We need to maximise its application for human well-being and minimise impact on the environment. GHD engineers, scientists and planners can provide sustainable, cost-effective and innovative water solutions.  We assist water utilities and others who provide water services to optimise infrastructure and adapt to environmental changes in ways that balance the needs of our communities. And we enable clients to meet compliance, improve profitability and maintain their commitment to sustainability.

GHD continually expands the boundaries by engaging in research, enhancing existing systems and strategies, evaluating new procedures and transferring technology from other industries into the water industry. We work with our clients through all project stages planning, investigation, design, delivery, operation and renewal.

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Managing water quality requires careful investigation, water sampling (often over several seasons), and an understanding of the water resource and distributuion system.

GHD has designed, project managed and fine-tuned the operations of more than 300 water treatment plants - from 0.1Ml a day to over 2500Ml a day. Our technical solutions protect public health; improve water taste, colour and odour; reduce corrosiveness; and optimise treatment plant efficiencies.

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Water Transmission & Distr

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GHD has a strong commitment to working in partnership with clients. That way, clients can fully understand how their water systems work. Our engineers, scientists and ecologists address sustainability, water loss reduction and water efficiency improvements. GHD services cover:

  • Sustainable water resource management and integrated urban water management
  • Drought response planning for the crucial planning, management and sustainable use of water
  • Water pipelines, using an impressive set of analytical and design tools to deliver over 5000km of pipelines (100mm to over 3000mm in diameter) in myriad terrains and pressure conditions
  • Pumping stations, including delivery of over 500 pump stations designed with flows from 1 to over 40,000 litres per second and lifts of more than 1000m and challenging complexity through advanced electrical and mechanical technology
  • Balance storages in varying sizes, shapes and construction materials (concrete, steel, membranes), including ground level storage, elevated towers, standpipe storage and turkey's nest storage
  • Network planning for the implementation and expansion of reticulation networks
  • Water hammer analysis
  • Water intakes, including design of still-water dam intakes, run-of-river intakes in mountain streams and river-bed intakes
  • Groundwater, including solutions to all groundwater abstraction problems, yield assessments, bore development and borehole pumping and treatment
  • Leaks, utilising capability in leak detection and control strategies, latest detection equipment and total life cycle solutions
  • Rehabilitation, through specialist trenchless technology group solutions for rehabilitation/replacement of existing water mains

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