Environmental Engineering: Landfill & Waste Management

Guyana: Georgetown Waste Management Facility – Landfill Cell Development Phase 2

Construction of engineered landfill cells (17,500 m² footprint): 77,000 m³ excavation, 15,500 m³ engineered clay liner, 16,000 m² HDPE liners, 3,850 m³ drainage blanket, leachate & gas systems, utilities, screening berm, haul-road upgrade and earthworks.

Project: IGI International Group
Contract Value: €1,179,964
Construction Period: June 2010 – December 2010

Georgetown Landfill 1 Georgetown Landfill 2
Environmental Engineering

Guyana: Haags Bosch Sanitary Landfill – Phase 4

Development of a new landfill containment cell, capping an existing filled cell, surface-water drainage and access-road construction. Works include excavation, re-profiling, HDPE & LLDPE liners, leachate systems, geocomposite drainage, restoration soils, clay-lined ditch and all ancillary works.

Project Team: IGI International Group
Contract Value: €1.2 Million
Construction Period: July 2010 – December 2010

Haags Bosch 2 Haags Bosch 3 Haags Bosch 1
Environmental Engineering

Guyana: EJ Atlas

Permanent capping of 2 landfill cells and construction of 2 new cells. Capping: 20,000 m² regulation, 20,000 m² gas geocomposite, 20,000 m² LLDPE liner, 20,000 m² drainage geocomposite, 25,000 m³ peat, HDPE gas & leachate networks. Cell construction: 80,000 m³ rock excavation, 25,000 m³ embankment, 19,000 m³ engineered clay, 20,000 m² HDPE liner, 20,000 m³ geotextile, 11,000 m³ leachate stone, HDPE collection & M&E systems.

Contract Value: €8.6 m
Construction Period: 2008 – 2009

EJ Atlas Landfill
Environmental Engineering

Ireland: Coolcashlagh Landfill

Construction of 35,000 m² permanent cap at Coolcashlagh Landfill, Killarney, Co. Kerry. Works comprised earthworks re-profiling (16,000 m³), gas-collection network with 13 vertical wells, 35,000 m² gas geocomposite, 35,000 m² 1 mm LLDPE welded liner, 35,000 m² drainage geocomposite, 25,000 m³ Class 2 cap material, cap-drainage pipe network & outfall structures, plus 4,000 m³ topsoil.

Contract Value: €1.8 m
Construction Period: 2007

Coolcashlagh 1 Coolcashlagh 2
Environmental Engineering

Ireland: Drumaboden Landfill

  • Re-grading existing waste to create sloped batters and drainage gradients.
  • Filling 900 m of leachate cut-off drains with drainage stone.
  • Installing 42,000 m² geo-composite gas-collection layer.
  • Installing 42,000 m² GCL sealed with bentonite powder.
  • Installing 42,000 m² geo-composite surface-water collection layer.
  • Import & placement of 36,000 m³ sub-soil capping layer.
  • Import & placement of 6,000 m³ topsoil and seeding with agricultural grass seed.
  • Construct 400 m × 5 m service track on 2000 g/m² geotextile.
  • Perimeter surface-water drains, gas vents & groundwater monitoring points.

Contract Value: €1.8 m
Construction Period: 2007

Drumaboden 1 Drumaboden 2 Drumaboden 3