Black & Veatch's Global Technology Leader In Wastewater Treatment Joining Houston Regional Office

Dr. Andrew Shaw provides expertise to address growing Texas wastewater treatment needs

Andrew Shaw, a leader in the water and wastewater industry, is relocating to Black & Veatch’s Houston Regional Office with a focus on nutrient removal, sustainability and wastewater reuse. Shaw, Global Practice & Technology Leader and Associate Vice President, will help meet project needs for Black & Veatch’s clients in the expanding Texas wastewater treatment sector.

Shaw’s engineering career spans more than 25 years of consulting globally in the wastewater business. He joined Black & Veatch in 2001 and has been successful in a wide range of projects. This includes planning, design and operations of treatment facilities, advancing the use of process modeling and development of wastewater technologies. He is also an expert in wastewater plant optimization approaches.

He serves as Chair of the Water Environment Federation’s Municipal Resource Recovery Design Committee (MRRDC), which is involved in programs and technical information on the advancement of municipal wastewater treatment design practices. Shaw also is chair of several International Water Association task groups and committees in areas such as computer modeling and water life-cycle assessments.

Shaw was process lead for the City of Raleigh, North Carolina, wastewater master plan. This included selection of the most appropriate technology and investigating future treatment requirements including nutrient removal in conjunction with the collection system for the city across multiple sites. He also served as process specialist in implementing phosphorus recovery at the Stickney Water Reclamation Plant in Chicago. The Stickney plant is the largest wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) in the world and serves 2.3 million people.

Shaw also has significant international experience including his role as the lead wastewater process engineer for the iconic Deep Tunnel Sewerage System phase 2 (DTSS2) in Singapore. In this project, deep tunnel sewers will convey used water entirely by gravity to a new state-of-the-art Membrane Bioreactor (MBR) plant, which will have an initial total used water treatment capacity of over 200 million gallons per day. Domestic used water and industrial used water will be treated separately, producing “NEWater” for domestic use and water for industrial purposes respectively.

Shaw earned a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering with environmental protection from Loughborough University in the United Kingdom. Recently, he earned a PhD in environmental engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology.

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