Every win starts from within! Wharton-Smith was recently ranked No. 7 in the large-company category of Orlando Business Journal’s Best Places to Work. Our evaluation was based on team effectiveness, employee alignment with company goals, trust in senior leaders, feeling valued, retention, and more. We are proud, humbled, and grateful for the incredible employees that [...]
Pardon our dust – we’re growing! Over the last several months, the Wharton-Smith corporate office in Sanford, FL has been in the process of expanding. As we begin to wrap up construction on our new addition, we want to reflect and appreciate just how far we’ve developed as a company. We’ve continued to build communities [...]
On July 16, Wharton-Smith joined with representatives from the City of Fort Myers, Cogburn Electric, AECOM, and CDM Smith for a ribbon-cutting ceremony, lunch, and a tour of the South Advanced Wastewater Treatment Facility. See more pictures. The $46 million project included electrical upgrades of both the Central and South Facilities, screen and grit system [...]
Carlin Dunlop, Assistant Project Manager – Central Florida Water, passed the Professional Engineer (PE) test. This is a significant accomplishment that requires both years of experience and extensive study to successfully complete the exam. The eight-hour PE exam tests your ability to practice competently in a particular engineering discipline. It is designed for engineers who have [...]
Our Carolina Water team has just begun production on the new Berkeley County Pump Station #002 project! This undertaking includes the demolition of the existing facility and will be replaced with a new 26-MGD pump station with submersible pumps, wet well, discharge piping, force main, and electrical upgrades. We are excited to be working alongside Weston [...]
Wharton-Smith’s Orlando Water Division has recently become the grateful selected construction manager at risk for the Western Reuse Storage & Pump Station project! As September 2020 approaches, our team is eager to act on this estimated $9 million five-acre greenfield site. Construction will include a new reclaim storage and pump station consisting of two 4-million-gallon [...]
The Wharton-Smith Orlando Water team has some positive news to share – we have recently been awarded the Buckman WRF Biosolids and UV project! Expected to begin in September 2020, this $90 million CMAR project will consist of five, separate large upgrades to improve multiple treatment process areas including UV disinfection, biosolids handling, dewatering, and [...]
The project team at the Fort Myers Central & South Advanced Wastewater Treatment Facility hit a major milestone on April 3. The headworks screen and grit rehab crew took the South plant off the six pump bypass system and successfully started the new Hydro-Dyne bar screen equipment while overcoming hurtles caused by COVID-19 and its [...]
At Wharton-Smith, we strive to be the construction group of choice for our clients, our employees, and the communities we serve. As a general contractor for over 35 years, we have become industry experts in water treatment facilities, which are essential for every community across the nation. We are proud to be part of an [...]
DeBary, FL – May 1, 2018 – The Southwest Regional Water Reclamation Facility Biological Nutrient Removal project located near Blue Spring State Park in DeBary commemorated their retrofitted Water Treatment Plant opening in an unusual way -- using toilet paper in lieu of a ribbon for the traditional cutting ceremony. The expanded plant will reduce [...]
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