Finland-based engineering and consulting firm Poyry has been awarded a contract to provide project management and engineering services for the rehabilitation of the waste to energy plant in Winterthur, Switzerland.
The assignment covers the implementation phase of the project and amounts to about E5.5 million. The Winterthur waste to energy project comprises replacement of one of the existing incinerators, erection of an additional flue gas cleaning unit, replacement of the energy conversion unit, including a new extraction condensing steam turbine, and some major adjustments in the civil structures of the plant.
The upgraded facility will receive some 160,000 tons of municipal solid waste per year and produces heat for district heating supply and 25MW of electricity.
The company’s services would include overall project management, civil design, tender preparation and evaluation, approval consulting, design review, site supervision, commissioning and handover of the project.