According to the Chilean Meteorological Service, over the past 10 years, the impact of climate change in our country has resulted in an average precipitation deficit of 20 to 30%, affecting the north in particular, which is facing a severe water shortage for both industrial use and human consumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the Atacama Region, this depletion has led to the deterioration of the Copiap\u00f3 River aquifers, resulting in a water crisis that affects the towns of Copiap\u00f3, Caldera, Cha\u00f1aral, and Tierra Amarilla and their more than 210,000 residents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Proposal<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Develop detailed engineering for the 85,000 m\u00b2 desalination plant using BIM methodology, enabling the development and integration of the client\u2019s modeling and providing access to information and visualization for all project participants. This approach offers the benefit of identifying conflicts and reducing errors in the construction of the desalination plant, while maintaining the flexibility and adaptability to client needs that characterizes P&A.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Results<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Sanitation Services Concession Company (ECONSSA) put out a bid for the execution of the project \u201cSeawater Desalination Plant for the Atacama Region, Provinces of Copiap\u00f3 and Cha\u00f1aral,\u201d located in Punta Zorro (Caldera), under an EPC contract, with the contract awarded to the INIMA-CVV Consortium. In January 2018, work began on the engineering phase of the project, which involved 9 months of design and construction (P&A) under a fast-track approach\u2014that is, construction proceeded concurrently with engineering\u2014ensuring a supply of drinking water for over 210,000 people in the Atacama Region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With an estimated investment of US$140 million in the first phase, the project was designed to produce 1,200 l\/s of drinking water through three construction phases: Phase 1: production capacity of 450 l\/s of drinking water; Phase 2: total production capacity of 900 l\/s of drinking water; Phase 3: production capacity of 1,200 l\/s of drinking water, through the extraction of seawater and its desalination via the reverse osmosis process (obtaining fresh water from salt water). From there, the water\u2014now desalinated and treated with the necessary chemicals to make it potable\u2014will be transported via aqueducts to the population. According to the Econssa website, the plant is already operational.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" According to the Chilean Meteorological Service, over the past 10 years, the impact of climate change in our country has resulted in an average precipitation deficit of 20 to 30%, affecting the north in particular, which is facing a severe water shortage for both industrial use and human consumption. In the Atacama Region, this depletion […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-project"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n