Construction water cleaning at US military hospital, Weilerbach
The largest US military hospital outside the United States is being built in Weilerbach near Kaiserslautern in the immediate vicinity of Ramstein Airbase. Around 2,500 people will work in the new hospital building. Completion is planned for the end of 2027. The construction contract worth almost one billion euros was awarded to the German-American consortium ZÜBLIN and Gilbane Joint Venture in January 2022. ZÜBLIN Umwelttechnik is responsible for dewatering and construction water treatment.
Place
Weilerbach
Client
Joint Venture US Clinic Weilerbach
Parameters
Flow rate up to 10 L/s or 36 m³/h
Special features
Two construction water purification systems in use at the same time
Performance period
since October 2023
Scope of services
- Settling basin
- Flocculation reactor
- Flocculant dosing station
- Lamella separator
- Pumping station as pressure boosting station
- Sand filter
- Control cabinet with control, data acquisition and fault message system
- Dewatering
- Pipeline construction