TABLE OF CONTENTS Thomas E.Arn
Malcolm Pirnie, Inc.
Phoenix, Arizona
John Gasser Oakland, California
The design engineer s provisions for new, upgraded, or expanded water treatment facilities should go beyond the design and specification of equipment, steel, and concrete to include less tangible aspects of the total job: consideration of adequate staffing for the new facilities, personnel preparation, reference documentation, and start-up of new facilities. These aspects should be part of the total package of services provided by the engineer to comprehensively meet the client s needs. The engineer can then turn over facilities, knowing that everything possible has been done to provide the client a complete, functional unit.
Categories covered in this chapter that both engineer and owner must take into consideration during design and construction phases are design-phase training considerations and construction-phase training, start-up, and post-start-up considerations.
Operator training is a joint responsibility shared by the engineer, contractor, vendors, and owner. Equipment suppliers (vendors), under the general responsibility of the contractor, should train plant staff in the operations and maintenance (O&M) of equipment and systems they have provided. The content of that training should be defined by the engineer in the design specifications. During construction the engineer should oversee vendor training of operators as part of start-up planning, including providing systems training on the functioning of the unit processes and treatment system as a whole. In short, the contractor or vendors should provide the training on the parts, and the engineer on the sum of the parts.
