Working with the City of Lake Worth, WGI provided design services for a new master pump station located in Bryant Park. Requirements for the new facility included functionality, but also that it be aesthetically pleasing and fit in with the local architecture. To accomplish the City’s aesthetic goals, embellishments, such as decorative barrel tile roof system, architectural banding, and arches, were added to the exterior of the facility. Decorative privacy walls surrounding the building conceal the industrial components to further the aesthetic appeal.

The building design requirements presented significant structural design issues. A 16-foot wet well was constructed adjacent to the Intracoastal Waterway to collect the various distribution and discharge pipes. Cast-in-place concrete with additives, water-cement ratios, and specialty coating designed to resist the corrosive saltwater environment and the influent’s caustic nature was used to achieve a sound, low maintenance structure. The walls and roof systems were constructed of reinforced masonry products and precast, pre-stressed roof slabs to provide hurricane protection for this component of infrastructure vital to the operation of the City’s sewage treatment facilities.

WGI worked seamlessly with the City to design this critical facility’s structural elements, creating a low maintenance building able to maintain operations during severe storm events.