About the author:
Bob Crossen is senior managing editor for WWD. Crossen can be reached at [email protected]. Cristina Tuser is associate editor for WWD. Tuser can be reached at [email protected].
Bob Crossen & Cristina Tuser
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The 2021 WWD Top Projects highlight a set of projects that all had one major commonality: the coronavirus pandemic. While 2020 had some projects with this as an added challenge, every project submitted for 2021 listed this as a primary challenge.
Despite that common challenge, each of these projects rose above all other nominations as the best of the best. Some of the projects seem quite simple at the outlook, but the complexity of the work necessary, challenges overcome to complete it on time and on budget, and significance to their communities gave them an edge over other nominations.
The James E. Quarles Plant 1 Replacement, for example, was a nearly decade-long project with more than 300,000 billable man-hours. The Clinton River Water Resource Recovery Facility is on the bleeding edge of technology by adopting and using thermal hydrolysis as a primary tool for its wastewater treatment functions. And the Collins Park Water Treatment Plant Basin 7 and 8 Improvements struggled in construction due to incorrect drawings of the existing structures.
No matter the challenge, the teams and utilities listed conducted exceptional work. To learn more about these projects and to put faces and names to the work that got them done, visit bit.ly/2021wwdtopprojects to watch video interviews with every winner. New videos air at 6 p.m. Eastern Time every Thursday on our Facebook page.
Top Project Winners
WWD 2021 Top Projects Ceremony
For the first time since 2019, Water & Wastes Digest held a ceremony to recognize its WWD Top Project winners as well as its WWD Industry Icon during WEFTEC21 in Chicago at Miagiannos Little Italy.
The event hosted winners who could attend the event in person — based on organization travel restrictions during the coronavirus pandemic — with a cocktail bar sponsored by BioMicrobics and heavy hors d’oeurves.
