The Canada Green Building Council has awarded LEED Gold certification to the Capital Regional District’s (CRD) McLoughlin Point Wastewater Treatment Plant’s Operations and Maintenance (O&M) building in Victoria, British Columbia. The O&M building is just one component of the CAD$775 million wastewater program undertaken by the CRD.

The wastewater treatment plant and associated O&M facility was built by Harbour Resource Partners, a consortium of Graham, AECOM and HDR. Graham and AECOM formed a design-build partnership leveraging Graham’s well-established construction capability and AECOM’s wastewater design expertise and environmental specialist abilities. HDR was the architecture design lead, providing full architectural services, including an initial iterative design and site selection process. 

Promoting sustainability and energy efficiency was a critical consideration to the design planning, architecture, building engineering, and program construction management of the wastewater treatment program. The team examined CRD’s goals, project site context, and sustainability targets at the outset to deliver an integrated plan and building process, leveraging the strength of the team’s technical excellence in designing and constructing many large-scale, multi-phase water projects.

“Wastewater treatment plant projects always present complex environmental construction challenges. The CRD project was an extreme example of this with the site being contaminated from its previous use and the location prominent on a rocky headland in Victoria’s outer harbour.” said Ian Dickinson, Graham’s Executive Vice President, Water. “Our team was able to address these challenges because Graham, AECOM and HDR worked as a fully integrated design-build team to create solutions that were cost effective and constructible. We are proud the project is recognized a LEED Gold certified.”

“AECOM is committed to making a positive impact to the communities we serve. Achieving LEED Gold certification is a testament to our team’s mission of providing transformative green and resilient infrastructure,” said Marc Devlin, AECOM Canada’s Executive Vice President. “We are grateful to the CRD and our project partners, including Graham Construction and HDR, in receiving this formal recognition from the Canada Green Building Council.”

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