An Irish engineering project that removes and recovers phosphorus from treated wastewater and allows it to be used as agricultural fertiliser has won a major global infrastructure engineering award.
The project was commissioned in 2023 by Uisce Éireann, the state-owned water utility company as part of the €500 million upgrade of the Ringsend Wastewater Treatment Plant. The P Fix Project was developed by the 3JV engineering consortium involving TJ O’Connor & Associates, a Dublin-based firm, JB Barry & Partners, part of Egis Group, a global engineering and operations firm, and Netherlands-based, global consulting and engineering firm Royal HaskoningDHV.
The project was the only one in Europe to be shortlisted and faced competition from other major developments across nine other countries including the Jakarta-Bandung High Speed Railway in Indonesia, Boryeong Subsea Tunnel in South Korea and the My Thuan 2 bridge construction project in Vietnam.
