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Wichita Water Partners is built around the design capabilities and construction leadership of Kansas City-based Burns & McDonnell and St. Louis-based Alberici, along with a team of strong local design and construction partners. Wichita Water Partners team members employ approximately 1,000 people who call Wichita home.

Collectively, Wichita Water Partners team members have worked on nearly every major water infrastructure project in Wichita over the past 30 years. This includes the last major addition to the current water treatment plant, the generator building, and the Hess Pump Station. Other projects the team supported include Intrust Bank Arena, Exploration Place, Keeper of the Plains suspension bridge, Kellogg 235 interchange, East Kellogg and the new minor league baseball stadium.

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Members of our team have worked on nearly every major water project in Wichita for 30 years. The city’s diverse water supply – ground, surface, aquifer – makes that experience invaluable.

Ron Coker
Vice President and Project Principal, Burns & McDonnell

Investing in Wichita’s Small Businesses and Workforce

All too often, the opportunities that come with large infrastructure projects are out of reach to those who would most benefit. Wichita Water Partners is committed to correcting that by delivering this project in a way that has a lasting impact on our region for years to come.

Through several continuing education programs, we will focus on diversifying the supplier network to bring more local firms and local talent to the project by:

  • Making it easier for small businesses to work on the project by waiving bonding requirements and providing quick-pay programs to assist developing businesses with cash flow – removing two of the primary hurdles small businesses face in pursuing work on large projects.
  • Growing the area’s workforce by providing training programs that will enable area residents to gain new skills that will help build the Wichita’s new water treatment facility and provide experience that will carry on to work on future projects.

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Everyone on the team has built treatment plants and built in the City of Wichita for years and years.

Tom Dondlinger
President, Dondlinger & Sons Construction

Burns & McDonnell and Alberici: A Track Record of Success

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Proven, Relevant Expertise
Close to Home and Across the Nation

The team is responsible for Omaha, Neb.’s Platte West Water Treatment Plant, which has a capacity of 104 million gallons a day. Omaha credits the plant for increasing capacity by 40% and meeting its drinking-water needs for the next 50 years.

National experience includes the Alexander Orr Water Treatment Plant in Miami-Dade County, which can process 215 million gallons per day. For comparison, Wichita’s plant will have a 120-million-gallon-a-day capacity.