How the $1.7B Echowater project stayed on time and on budget
Major metropolitan water infrastructure projects are bigger, more complex and more expensive than ever. With these sizes, projects like Echo Water in Sacremento can take a decade before they are completed. So how to engineers, contractors, designers, utilities and their stakeholders keep everything straight?
Strauder Patton, national program leader for program management for Brown and Caldwell, and Graham Calciano, Brown and Caldwell joint venture leader of the Echo Water project, talk about the tools and technologies that have made these large scale projects possible, and the challenges they face that smaller ones do not.
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Bob Crossen
Bob Crossen is the editorial director for the Endeavor Business Media Water Group, which publishes WaterWorld, Wastewater Digest and Stormwater Solutions. Crossen graduated from Illinois State University in Dec. 2011 with a Bachelor of Arts in German and a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism. He worked for Campbell Publications, a weekly newspaper company in rural Illinois outside St. Louis for four years as a reporter and regional editor.