Worcester, MA – Tighe & Bond, Inc. of Worcester announced that the company earned a National Recognition Award for exemplary engineering achievement in the American Council of Engineering Companies’ (ACEC) 47th annual Engineering Excellence Awards for designing upgrades to the wastewater treatment facility serving the City of Sturbridge.
The $17 million upgrade project marks the first time two cutting-edge processes—BioMag and CoMag—have been combined in a full-scale treatment facility. Both use infusions of high-density magnetite to separate biological and chemical materials from wastewater, producing effluent that far exceeds stringent discharge standards. The processes will enable Surbridge’s 40-year-old treatment facility to support future economic and population growth, while also improving the quality of nearby lakes and waterways.
The National Recognition Award winners will be honored at the black-tie Engineering Excellence Awards Gala—known as the “Academy
Awards of the engineering industry”—to be held Tuesday, April 23, 2013 at The Grand Hyatt Hotel in Washington, D.C.