SWPF Construction End Date Set for April

Parsons anticipates finalizing construction of the Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF) at the Savannah River Site by April 2016 at a total cost of $475 million, Project Manager Frank Sheppard said yesterday at the Department of Energy National Cleanup Workshop in Arlington, Va. That would bring the project in under budget and ahead of schedule compared to the renegotiated 2013 contract between DOE and Parsons that budgeted $575 million for construction and set a Dec. 31, 2016, completion date for the waste disposal facility. “I am pleased to state that our projected construction complete date is April 22, 2016, and our projected cost is $475 million—well below the $530 million,” Sheppard said. “We have less than seven months to go, and we are performing very well along with our DOE team members and continue with system turnovers.” As construction winds down, the emphasis has turned to turnover of systems within the facility, Sheppard said.  Seventy-one systems need to go through turnover before construction is officially completed, and Parsons has already “completed several final turnovers to date” while also “initiating many, many initial walk-downs” and completing “a number of upcoming final turnovers in the next two or three months,” Sheppard said.