Natural Resources & Mining

African Climate Technology Finance Center and Network Mitigation Framework Agreement

The general objective of the assignment is to support the enabling and the scaling-up of technology transfer through policy, institutional and organizational reforms. It will seek to enhance the enabling environment for climate change technology transfer, which is one of the main constraints in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries.

Air Quality Governance (AIR-Q-GOV) in the ENPI East countries

The project is one of a series of regional governance projects launched by the European Commission to support the partner countries in ENPI East to increase their convergence to the EU standards in the environmental sector. The overall objective of the project is to enable an improved and sustainable management of natural resources including nature […]

Australia Pacific LNG Water Treatment Facility

MWH has been appointed by Origin Energy to provide detailed design services for two proposed water treatment facilities as part of the Australia Pacific LNG project. The Australia Pacific LNG project is a 50:50 joint venture between Origin and ConocoPhillips and incorporates the upstream gas and water gathering and treatment facilities, which are the first stage of […]

Central Valley Flood Management Planning Program

MWH successfully led the on-time completion of the first-ever, State of California Central Valley Flood Protection Plan (CVFPP). Adopted June 29, 2012, by a unanimous vote of the state’s Central Valley Flood Protection Board (Board), the 2012 CVFPP provides a comprehensive plan to modernize a flood management system that protects more than one million people […]

Cerro Corona

The Cerro Corona Mine is located within a mineral rich trend in the Hualgayoc mining district of the Andes mountain range and is owned and operated by Gold Fields, one of the world’s largest gold producers. When completed, Cerro Corona will be a single surface mine producing approximately 91 million tons of ore mined over […]

Delft Railway Zone Soil Management

MWH and Dura Vermeer Milieu BV were jointly asked to provide input on the organisation of earthmoving operations in connection with the construction of an underground railway line in Delft. In consultation with the client, it was decided to have the excavated soil BRL 9335-certified. The project concerns a tunnel track with a length of […]

Farming on Well Managed Soils

Climate research in recent years revealed that the agriculture in the Netherlands will need to combat a warmer, dryer climate with heavy precipitation. The research also indicated that the agriculture can anticipate this change, for example by improving soil structure. MWH launched a project in the area of Witteveen, in the north eastern part of […]

Gil Project Area Expansion and Groundwater Interception System Evaluation

MWH succeeded in the acquisition of the FGMI Pre-feasibility (PFS) and Groundwater Interception System Evaluation contracts. The PFS work was initiated during the summer and fall of 2013 and provided surface and groundwater hydrological assessments for a large-scale gold mine near Fairbanks, Alaska.

Levin Landfill Odour Assessment

Mainstreaming of Environmental Sustainability, including Biodiversity, Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction

This project entails the provision of technical assistance services to improve the effectiveness of EU interventions having direct or indirect effects on environment and climate issues, or being affected by environment and climate issues, through EU thematic and geographic programmes, ultimately contributing to poverty eradication, sustainable development and green growth.