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According to Clean & Safe Water for the 21st Century: A Renewed National Commitment to Water and Wastewater Infrastructure, published by the Water Infrastructure Network, www.awwa.org, one trillion dollars will be required over the next 20 years for capital investment in plants, water distribution systems, and wastewater collection systems. Over the same period, another $1 trillion will be required to operate and maintain these systems.
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Value Engineering has been effectively applied to the design of water and wastewater treatment facilities and systems since 1974—accounting for both initial and life cycle costs. LZA wrote the US/EPA's handbook, Value Engineering for Wastewater Treatment Works, 1984. We have applied VE to more than 1,000 water and wastewater treatment, storage, and conveyance facilities worldwide. LZA's VE services in these fields represent one-third of our business annually.
Understanding the life cycle cost implications of a program enables the owner to plan with knowledge and design to cost. LZA routinely uses life cycle costing and energy modeling in our VE efforts to account for the cost of owning and operating facilities.
