Built space
DEHYDRATION SLUDGE SYSTEM - SDN
Project description
“Our approach to sustainability is not limited to environmental quality concerns and does not simply include headings that need to be ticked. Our vision is a responsible management and a constant assurance of the company's longevity, doubled by a continuous search for a compromise between the different interests, often divergent, but always legitimate, of all stakeholders. " - Sustainability policy of AZOMURES SA - AMEROPA Company. Having as a starting point this responsible approach, through the design theme it was wanted to reconsider the component of the technological process of industrial raw water treatment and the management of the resulting by-products. The implemented solution is based on principles fundamentally different from those that formed the basis of the plant's conception when it was founded in the 60's. Prior to the investment, the necessary functions - storage, decantation, dehydration, treatment, washing, purification - were provided in independent constructions and systems. Considering the principles of environmental responsibility, responsible use of natural resources and land surfaces, energy efficiency, compatibility with the water treatment system, the challenge of the design team was to integrate in a block building functions with different parameters. In the compact volume of the SDN building are merged two sludge thickening tanks and the centrifugation installation and transport of dehydrated sludge, these occupying 50% of the built volume. The processes are controlled and monitored by a SCADA automation and control system located in rooms located on the 1st floor. At the upper levels of the building are located the operators' rooms for the entire water management and transport system inside the plant. Compared to other civil and industrial architecture programs, due to its complexity, the project required a special approach. The role of the "Architect" had to be reconsidered, his priorities being transferred to the area of integration of all systems in a mono-volume, to ensure functional relationships between spaces with different surface, volume, temperature and humidity requirements and to correlate and coordinate a complex design team. The vast surface of the industrial platform generates an industrial anthropic landscape to which the envelope of the building, through its aesthetics, refers.
Author's presentation text
For 20 years, step by step, DATCOMP has started and continued to develop and to consolidate its knowledge in the field of drinking water treatment stations (DWTS). In all these years our company has succeeded in making the transition from designing components to designing systems and, finally, to designing an entire process and an entire water treatment station. Through the years the maintenance department, the construction department and the on site project management department have joined the design department. By the quality of its services, our company has opened the market to the regional water operators AQUATIM and AQUASERV in order to modernize and build new water plants. At the same time, DATCOMP has succeeded in creating a stable and powerful partner for itself: BEESPEED. Together with BEESPEED SRL, DATCOMP SRL implements SCADA systems of water treatment stations. The aim of the company is to fulfill customers’ expectations as well as those of the population, according to the existing standards and the legal and quality requirements.
