qathet Regional District (qRD) has hired Herold Engineering from Nanaimo as the successful proponent for the Marine Avenue resource-recovery centre detailed design phase of works.
At the November 26 qRD regional board meeting, Herold Engineering was announced as the company to help with the next phase of the resource-recovery centre.
Manager of asset management and strategic initiatives Mike Wall said the request for proposals put out by the regional district attracted five qualified bidders. The phase of work being carried out by Herold Engineering in this contract will include conceptual design, through detailed design of the resource-recovery centre facility, as well as professional oversight of the construction, according to Wall.
“We are really looking forward to working with the competent team Herold Engineering has put together, which includes some local talent,” said Wall.
He said the Herold team will be completing schematic design, detailed design, detailed design to tender-ready documents, tender oversight, construction award recommendation and construction oversight.
“This includes any building and landscape architectural and engineering design and tender-ready drawings,” said Wall.
As for a general contractor for the construction phase of the resource-recovery centre, the plan is for the regional district to put out a request for proposals in 2021 to build the centre, which will be the third phase of the project. Wall said the regional district is hoping to have the tender for construction out around May 2021, with construction starting in summer of 2021.
The second phase of the project is nearly finished. Wall said the Marine Avenue landfill closure and other phase two scope of works will be completed by December 11.
“There will be additional minor works between phases that include sediment control applications, tree planting the riparian areas that were de-vegetated during the site’s historic operations, as well as some remaining buried incinerator ash excavation in drier weather,” said Wall.
The second phase of the resource-recovery centre project had taken place this fall, with Tervita Corporation, the company that carried out the first phase of reclamation of the old incinerator site, carrying out the contract. In the first and second phases of the project, the proponent carried out activities to close the old landfill and incinerator site, including clearing the surface of the facility in the first phase and digging up and sealing the landfill.
