Eastern Treatment Plant (ETP) Bundle

Project summary

Adeel Ashraf, as Senior Project Manager, is currently guiding the concept development phase of this important infrastructure upgrade at a key Melbourne Treatment Plant.

…what we did on this project

The ETP Bundle project is a critical infrastructure upgrade at Melbourne’s Eastern Treatment Plant. It encompasses the replacement and augmentation of key preliminary and primary treatment systems, including the influent screenings facility, grit removal units, and primary sedimentation tanks (PST).

These upgrades aim to enhance process capacity, resilience, operability, and safety, ensuring the plant can reliably meet service demands through to 2052–53.

The projects objectives aim to provide:

• an increase capacity and resilience of the screenings, grit, and primary treatment systems
• improved safety and maintainability for operations and maintenance teams
• future-proof critical infrastructure to meet long-term population and flow projections.

During this current concept design phase Adeel has identified the need to address gaps in the original options assessment process.

A number of steps have been undertaken to counter this including:

• The development and facilitation of a Traffic Light Assessment Workshop, introducing a Red-Amber-Green (RAG) approach to transparently evaluate options against key criteria.
• streamlined decision-making by refining a broad set of concepts into four well-defined, viable options.
• facilitation of a robust Multi-Criteria Analysis (MCA) Workshop combining qualitative and quantitative evaluation to identify the preferred solution.

Adeel has ensured proactive stakeholder engagement throughout, resulting in strong alignment, confidence in the selected pathway, and momentum toward the business case phase.

The project outcome will deliver an upgraded and integrated screenings, grit, and primary treatment system that is safe, resilient, and capable of meeting ETP’s operational and regulatory performance targets.