Turning Setback into Success: Insights from Failed Design-Bid-Build Experience

Recorded On: 03/20/2025

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CONTENT EXPIRES: December 31, 2027

Great Lakes Water Authority (GLWA) identified the need to upgrade the 400 mgd Lake Huron WTP (LHWTP) controls systems and some process mechanical systems to address aging equipment and comply with the GLWA guidance documents. Upgrading LHWTPs I&C system will not only enhance the plant's performance and reliability, but it'll also help advance GLWA's work toward standardizing their 5 water treatment plants, improving utility performance through the latest industry tools and best practices. The purpose of this project is to enhance the reliability, maintainability, and operability of the facility for the long-term. The challenge for GLWA: How to effectively use progressive design build as a delivery method, keep the plant running and avoid service disruption, with a brand-new team of players! This is an advanced panel presentation on how to deliver plant wide I&C and SCADA upgrades while keeping a large WTP in operation.

Pa Dada, Assoc. DBIA

Director of I&C

Pa Dada has 20+ years of experience in I&C, automation, SCADA, GIS and IT systems. She provides technical oversight and operations/project management, including working on design-build projects. She served as General Manager for Operations, and Assistant Director for the Integration and Operations group, with Detroit Water and Sewerage Department. She also served as Chief Operations Officer for an industrial automation business for five years. She has experience on projects in water/wastewater infrastructure and private industries.

Abhishek Sharda

Dir Auto Programming

Control system professional with over 20 years of experience. He has implemented various control systems technologies at various industrial facilities and contributed to developing guidance and strategy for the cybersecurity of different federal programs. He heads the National Automation Group for Brown & Caldwell, and his expertise includes critical infrastructure, control systems, cybersecurity, and program management. He is passionate about creating designs and implementing programs that solve problems influencing people's lives.

Eric Kramp

Owner/Lifecycle Project Manager

Great Lakes Water Authority

Eric Camu Kramp, PMP, is a project manager for the Great Lakes Water Authority who has been involved with construction of water assets for over thirty years. His work has been centered in Southeast Michigan. He has been involved in Design Build procurement methods since 1999. He has a degree in Bioengineering from the University of Michigan.

Christopher Steary

Owner/Plant Manager

GLWA Lake Huron WTP

Christopher Steary, plant manager at GLWA Lake Huron WTP comes to work every day with the mission of supplying safe drinking water to customers. As a professional who work on the front line of water delivery, no one is more concerned about ensuring that the water he provides to homes and businesses in the community is safe, and he is supported in that effort by state-of-the-art equipment.