SHERWIN-WILLIAMS ANNOUNCES 2019 WATER & WASTEWATER IMPACT AWARD WINNERS Colorful Fort Lauderdale water tower restoration earns top honors for SUEZ Advanced Solutions, OmniTech, LLC, Hazen and Sawyer, and the City of Fort Lauderdale By Scott Hunsberger
The intricate, colorful restoration of a long-standing elevated water tank serving the city of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, earned the city and project team the 2019 Sherwin- Williams Impact Award. The award-winning team includes professional service and contracting firm SUEZ Advanced Solutions; coatings inspection provider OmniTech, LLC; engineering firm Hazen and Sawyer; and the City of Fort Lauderdale. The award honors extraordinary projects fea- turing coating and lining materials from Sherwin-Williams Protective & Marine. The company announced the award winners during the Water Environment Federation’s 2019 WEFTEC Conference, held September 21-25, 2019, in Chicago, Illinois. The runner-up project for the award involved the restoration of a more than 110-year-old standpipe serving New Jersey’s Haddon Heights Township. The team included owner New Jersey American Water (NJAW); coatings contractor Titan Industrial Services, Inc.; profes- sional engineering services provider Tank Industry Consultants; and coatings inspection firm B&N Inspection and Supply. The honorable mention project entailed the restoration of a 2.5-million- gallon tank serving the Westwood neighborhood in Cincinnati, Ohio. The project team included coatings applicator United Coatings & Lin- ings, Inc. (UCL); coatings inspection firm Dixon Engineering, Inc.; and Greater Cincinnati Water Works (GCWW).
Fort Lauderdale Tank in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
wastewater projects, and recognize those professionals committed to protecting assets and enhancing public safety. Their charge is our charge – extend asset lives and reduce downtime to ensure safe, reliable service.” FIRST PLACE: Intricate, Multicolored Water Tower Design Showcases Fort Lauderdale Community Restoration of the 160-foot-tall, 1-million-gallon elevated water stor- age tank serving Fort Lauderdale nearly did not happen. The city had planned to demolish the almost 70-year-old fixture of the downtown skyline until the local community lobbied for its refurbishment instead. As a result, SUEZ completed a year-long, $1.9-million restoration of the structure’s interior and exterior, which now welcomes city residents and visitors with an intricate, 11-color design fitting of the picturesque southeast Florida community. The tank restoration project included replacing ladders and railings, making structural repairs, and recoating the tank inside and out. A crew from SUEZ started the tower restoration by cleaning, sandblasting and coating the tank’s complete interior. They applied two full coats of Sherwin-Williams Macropoxy® 646 PW epoxy with a stripe coat sprayed in-between to all sharp edges, corners and welds to ensure a high film build on these areas for long-term corrosion protection. For the tank’s exterior restoration, SUEZ installed a full containment tent to encapsulate the tower, and protect nearby structures and ve-
“Ensuring the proper care and upkeep of critical water and wastewater infra- structure is vital to the livelihood of local communities. Without dedicated contrac- tors, engineers, and asset owners focused on protecting these assets, communities could face unreliable water service and significant worries,” said Murray Hey- wood, North America Market Manager, Water & Wastewater, Sherwin-Williams Protective & Marine. “That’s why we established the Sherwin-Williams Impact Award – to honor demanding water and
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