Comprehensive Management
Our experts identify and resolve challenges before they impact your project costs and scheduling
West Yost’s Construction Management Team specializes in managing our client’s construction process once the construction project is awarded to a general contractor. Our construction managers and inspectors collaborate and coordinate between the contractor and our client. Our focus is managing the scope, quality, schedule, cost, and safety components of the construction contract to complete fulfillment and client satisfaction.
We manage risks to protect our client’s ratepayers from incurring additional costs due to the project delays and/or legal disputes, especially due to design ambiguities or contract interpretation issues.
Our experience allows us to identify and solve challenging problems, working with the designer to improve the constructibility. We earn your trust and deliver the project as you intended it to be with minimal impacts and headaches. We provide to clients both in-house electrical inspection and startup and commissioning experts. We specialize in construction administration and inspection of water and wastewater projects including:
- Wastewater Treatment Plants
- Trunk Sewers and Sewer Rehabilitation
- Potable Water and Recycled Water Pipelines
- Water Storage Tanks – Concrete and Steel
- Pump Stations
- Wetlands Restoration
Project Highlights
EchoWater Tertiary Treatment Facility at the Sacramento Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant
Sacramento Regional County Sanitation District (Regional San)
West Yost is providing construction management and inspection services on the $300 million Tertiary Treatment Facility at the Sacramento Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant as part of the $1.5 billion EchoWater project.
North Valley Regional Recycled Water Program – Turlock Component Project
City of Turlock
This $28 million recycled water pipeline project was constructed to convey Title 22 recycled wastewater from outfall location at the San Joaquin River on S. Carpenter Road to the City of Modesto’s Jennings Road Secondary Treatment Plant’s Effluent Pump Station.
Headworks, Dryden Box & Influent Flume Improvements
City of Modesto
This project at the City of Modesto’s Primary Sutter Avenue Wastewater Treatment Plant recently completed construction. The project involved constructing numerous 30-foot deep reinforced concrete junction structures tying into existing structures and pipelines, installation of several hundred feet of 60-inch diameter reinforced fiberglass mortar polymer pipelines, replacing all five bar screens, replacing all three bar screens on Pumping Plant No. 3, replacing screening washers/compactors, grit pumps, odor control improvements, and major electrical improvements that include replacing MCCs and upgrading control systems with PLCs to improve remote automated control via the existing SCADA system.
EchoWater Project – Nitrifying Sidestream Treatment
Sacramento Regional County Sanitation District
This project involved the construction of a triple-train sequential batch reactor (SBR) process to pretreat highly concentrated wastewater returned to the main treatment plant by nitrifying the wastewater stream using high speed turbo air blowers. Each basin independently treated the wastewater by blowing air through fine bubble diffusers which nitrifies the wastewater making it easier for the main BNR process to reduce ammonia content in the secondary effluent.
Phase 2 Biological Nutrient Removal/Tertiary Treatment Project
City of Modesto
West Yost provided construction management and inspection for this $102M wastewater treatment plant project which included a 12.6 mgd advanced treatment system and two-mile pipeline to the outfall location on the east embankment of the San Joaquin River.
Lower Northwest Interceptor’s New Natomas and South River Pump Stations
Sacramento County Regional Sanitation District
West Yost provided construction management services for this project which featured construction of two separate wastewater pump stations as part of the $600 million Lower Northwest Interceptor program. The pump stations included dual wet and dry well pump stations, CMU Switchgear Buildings, CMU Emergency Standby Power Buildings, buried Junction Structures, Odor Control Facilities, and Chemical Feed Systems.
Team Spotlight
West Yost hires construction managers and inspectors who are passionate about their work and enjoy the process of building something from the ground up and seeing it fully realized. They feel pride in providing clean water and good health to the communities in which we live and work. They are doing the best work of their lives at West Yost.
J.P. Davis, PE, CCM, QSP
Construction Management Business Sector Leader
J.P. Davis, PE, CCM, QSP
Construction Management Business Sector Leader
“I am passionate about my job! I see my clients and the contractor on a day-to-day basis, face-to-face. I enjoy getting to know them and their work styles. My goal is to meet their needs so that the whole team can have a successful project. Start-up is one of my favorite phases because using my experiences from prior projects, I can head off challenges before they impact the project cost and schedule. It is rewarding to start from nothing, coordinate a large team, pull in large equipment, and bring a system to life!
I am proud of the successful completion of the City of Modesto Headworks, Dryden Box, Influent Flume Improvements Project this year. Working together with the City and Contractor to continue the Headworks project safely and effectively amidst the pandemic, which was quite a feat considering nobody on the project contracted the virus. I created a collaborative team and was able to show value to the City, which led to winning the River Trunk Realignment Project, so we can continue support to the City for the coming year.”
Eric Harman, PE
Construction Manager IV
Eric Harman, PE
Construction Manager IV
“The value I provide is bringing the project team (owners, designers, contractors, and our CM staff) together in order to take an idea on paper and create a successful project that meets the owner’s intent with minimal impacts or headaches. We value preparation. We try to plan for everything, including the unknown, to stay on the critical path to on-time completion.
The North Valley Regional Recycled Water Program project for the City of Turlock was a challenging project for several reasons; including several environmental restrictions involving buffer zones for threatened raptor nests; impacts to riparian habitats and other special status species along the pipeline alignment. In addition, significant groundwater was encountered during excavations that had to be properly controlled and disposed of. Finally, an unusually wet winter season significantly delayed the work. The fact that we were able to complete the project while keeping change orders under 3% was a great team accomplishment. I’m very proud to have led the project team to overcome all of the challenges and deliver the water to the ultimate end-users, central valley farmers, in a timely manner.”
Ted Doty
Construction Manager IV
Ted Doty
Construction Manager IV
“My goal on every project is to identify any potential issues in advance and work toward minimizing impacts to the project. I do this by analyzing all aspects of the project and working with all team members to identify strengths and weaknesses so I can help everyone succeed on the project.
I am proud of my contributions to the City of Modesto’s Headworks, Dryden Box, and Influent Plume project. I coordinated multiple bypasses needed to create efficiency that reduced the chance of failure so the project could be completed safely and on time. I also helped to redesign the tie-ins due to preexisting conditions, which was instrumental in keeping the project moving forward and mitigated disruption to daily treatment operations.”
