June 26, 2024
Sherwin-Williams announces top honours in the 2023 Sherwin-Williams Impact Award program: an ambitious $124 million renovation and expansion of a large-scale water reclamation facility in Fargo, North Dakota, that involved continuous collaboration between applicators and engineers. The Impact Awards recognise exceptional projects that feature high-performance coating and lining materials from Sherwin-Williams Protective & Marine.
The winning project featured the multi-year expansion of the Fargo Regional Water Reclamation Facility’s capacity to more than 100 million gallons a day, showcasing the critical importance of meticulous planning, teamwork, and advanced coating technologies to improve operational efficiency and asset integrity while maintaining operations. Fargo’s Regional Water Reclamation Facility is owned and operated by the city, while PKG Contracting Inc. led the overall project, with Protech Contracting Services Inc. serving as the applicator.
The runner-up project for the 2023 awards went to a challenging refurbishment of six aging basins at the Ralph Brennan Water Treatment Plant in Daytona Beach, Florida. Carried out by applicator Exceletech Coating and Applications LLC and general contractor PC Construction, the project involved complex methods to remove obsolete coatings, advanced techniques for concrete repair and high-performance coatings to improve structural durability without interrupting service to the city’s 70,000 residents.
“We take great pride in presenting these outstanding examples of how our coating technologies – rooted in modern and efficient methods focused on sustainability – can help make clean water more accessible and improve how wastewater is processed,” said Paul Trautmann, marketing director for Water and Wastewater at Sherwin-Williams Protective & Marine. “We use the Sherwin-Williams Impact Awards to celebrate the incredible work and dedication of project teams across the country whose creativity and hard work ensure vital infrastructure stands the test of time.”
The Sherwin-Williams Impact Awards celebrate contractors, specifiers and asset owners for outstanding performance on water and wastewater projects across North America. The honors recognize projects that significantly influence the industry by protecting assets, improving their life cycles and enhancing safety. Eligible submissions included any water-related structures that were new, renovated or rehabilitated in 2023, utilising coating and lining materials from Sherwin-Williams Protective & Marine.
