SunCrate SU Manuel Ortiz

Electric Resiliency to Hurricane-Affected Puerto Rico School

Days became weeks, then months of darkness at the tiny SU Manuel Ortiz school after Hurricane Maria in September 2017 obliterated Puerto Rico’s already fragile power grid and set in motion the longest outage in U.S. history. That anguish lingered for nearly a year until power from the island’s problematic grid finally surged again.

The school won’t ever have to fret again about losing the lights, courtesy of Black & Veatch who donated tens of thousands of dollars in technology along with the manpower that put in a new, solar-driven power source.

City of Winter Haven, Florida

Adaptive Master Planning

Black & Veatch is working with the City of Winter Haven – ‘The Chain of Lakes City’ – on its integrated and holistic One Water Master Plan.  Recognizing the importance of water to social and economic fabric of the city, the plan establishes actionable strategies, including land use policies, develops project concepts with funding plans, and establishes the basis for resilient and sustainable water resource management over a 50-year planning horizon. 

Chicago Stormwater

Envisioning a Dynamic and Equitable Future for the City of Chicago

Working for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the City of Chicago and the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, Black & Veatch continues to contribute to advancement and realization of multiple mega projects to deliver resilience to the Cook County and City of Chicago.​

A proposed deep tunnel along with regional sewer improvements are viable solutions to provide relief to large scale flooding and basement backups occurring in nearly 20 percent of City’s service area in Chicago’s South Side and Far South neighborhoods. The Department of Water Management has completed hydrologic and hydraulic modeling, feasibility studies and preliminary engineering of the proposed project.

City of West Hollywood, CA

Fast-Moving Smart City Solutions

Guided by their smart city plan, City of West Hollywood, California, began to implement projects that would help them become a City of the Future. But like many communities, they were busy and needed support in the form of technical expertise to integrate multiple smart city technologies into the built environment. They proactively established a procurement pathway that gave them access to a bench of technical experts before they launched their smart city projects. Black & Veatch provided innovation, data, and design services and expertise to advance City of West Hollywood’s smart city projects, including electric vehicle (EV) charging.

Commonwealth of Kentucky

First Ever Public Private Partnership for a Broadband Network

KentuckyWired is a public infrastructure project that aims to provide high-speed, high-capacity internet service to every county in Kentucky. The project involves the construction of more than 2,300 miles of fiber optic design and installation. Black & Veatch joined forces with Ledcor to execute the design-build services. The goal of the project is to improve access to essential broadband services in the state and stimulate economic growth.

Digital Equity Bus

Addressing Digital Equity with Mobile Solutions

Evergreen Goodwill of Northwest Washington was looking for a mobile education solution that they could physically bring to people in underserved communities, specifically indigenous groups and refugees. Evergreen Goodwill needed an unconventional approach to decreasing the digital divide through delivering high-speed internet access, computer literacy and workforce development classes without relying on permanent infrastructure.