WCW24

This presentation will focus on a new collaborative development process for one of the largest infrastructure projects in North America - City of Houston Northeast Water Purification Plant Upgrade (https://www.houstonpublicworks.org/northeast-water-purification-plant-expansion-project). The challenge was to create a SCADA integration environment among friendly competitors. The revolutionary concept evolved significantly to respond to the challenges of COVID-19. The development partnership involved several consulting/engineering companies including two of the largest in the US as well as major system integrator. Capabilities included the creation of a real time, online, centralized configuration environment for numerous decentralized offices including work-at home. The breakthrough approach has now been adopted as standard practice by at least one of the primary consultants!