Council briefed on Inner Harbor desalination project; staff outlines phases, costs and schedule

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City staff updated the council on the Inner Harbor Water Treatment Campus (desalination) project, including procurement, permitting, schedule and preliminary cost-model timing; staff said Kiwi Infrastructure South is the progressive design-builder and that a draft cost model is due at month-end with a GMP targeted later this year.

City staff told the City Council that work on the Inner Harbor Water Treatment Campus — the city’s seawater desalination project for the Inner Harbor — is progressing through design and early procurement phases, and that staff expect higher cost certainty over the next several months.

Brett Van Hazel, director of the city program management office for the project, presented a status update. He reviewed recent council authorizations that started the current procurement track (amendments to engineering contracts and bond issuance authorization) and summarized the procurement outcome: a progressive design-build contract with Kiwi Infrastructure South (referred to in the presentation as the design-builder that will move the project from planning into guaranteed maximum price stages). Van Hazel said the project team has delivered a draft basis-of-design report and is reviewing a draft cost model. “We’re…

Council briefed on Inner Harbor desalination project; staff outlines phases, costs and schedule

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