The preservation of the value and good technical state of our water utilities, is not only our common interest but also the legal obligation pursuant to legislation (Act CCIX. 2011, about water utility services) as well. From July 15, 2012 the water utilities and property evaluation is a mandatory annex for all of management contracts, and the entire national water utility infrastructure shall be evaluated no later than 31 December 2019.
The BDL Ltd. plays leading role, both in the public and municipal-owned water utilities asset-evaluation in the last decade. Our company performs asset evaluation since 2007 specifically for water utilities, municipalities responsible for care. During our work, we can rely on technical engineering, economic and asset management experiences of our employees from more decades.
In addition to the asset evaluation activities we participate in many of technical, economic, asset management guidance. We conducted including:
The multi-faceted integrated utility property assessment database – by developing TIKA software and multi-faceted integrated asset evaluation methodology, we set out for our objectives the creation of basic conditions of an effectively sustainable and secure water utility services, as well as a utility management responsible for preservation of value of our water utilities. With the help of TIKA inventory and asset evaluation software it’s possible the effective establishment of an outstanding quality public utility database, insuring thematic queries.
With the experience of asset evaluations performed on about 1,600 settlements by TIKA methodology and software support, we are at the disposal of our clients.
With our self-developed, award winning multifaceted Integrated Utilities Assessment Database (TIKA) software we provide a holistic and flexible service.
TIKA software is a fully integrated, complex system especially developed for Asset evaluation. Characteristics of the TIKA software:
Evaluation tasks:
During the evaluation process we cooperate and work closely together with local experts, and water professionals:
The detection of residual contamination accumulated in groundwater, the exploration of the extent of contamination, the mitigation and elimination of residual environmental damages from the past are all part of the tasks of environmental remediation activities.
Not only the professional design and construction of the water delivery systems can protect our irreplaceable resources, the drinking water sources and ground waters, but we also have to take care of the protection and purification of these water resources.
We have exceptional references in the field of environmental remediation, we have contributed to the sustainability of our water resources with the design and implementation of several unique water management systems.
BDL is offering a comprehensive set of services for soil and groundwater contamination elimination, encompassing engineering, consultancy and construction works. Our aim is to return a “clean” environment to our clients after the contamination assessment, demarcation and reclamation.
Remediation procedures
Design and consultancy
One of the main missions of our company is to protect the quantity and quality of our waters, and the conservation, and improvement of the aquatic environmental conditions. Our water purification projects (iron, manganese, heavy metals, arsenic, etc) are conducted in accordance with the standards of the domestic and international legislations. We pay special attention to the expansion, the conversion and reconstruction of existing facilities, we carry out our activities in a sustainable and cost-effective manner.
Among our previous successful projects, in addition to water purification assignments, we also designed and managed the construction of river surface water intake facilities, water treatment structures, and the mechanical engineering of the above.
Applied units of water purification technologies:
Full range of engineering, construction and investment preparatory tasks:
Nowadays frequent environmental problem is caused by the changing, increasing nature of heavy rainfalls, parallel occurring with continuous urbanization. In urban environments the rate of the covered surfaces has grown drastically in the previous decades. Unlike natural, green surfaces, impervious surface prevents rain infiltration to the soil, resulting in increased volume of runoff water. The lack of proper stormwater management can lead to several problems, both quantitative and qualitative ways. Flooding, overloading the existing rainwater collection, and sewer systems might occur. Besides the high sediment load, urban runoff waters can carry lots of other pollutants, for example: oils, heavy metals, fertilizers, PAHs, endangering recipient water bodies.
We believe that rain water is one of our most important natural treasures. The collection, cleaning, storage and re-use of rain water contribute to one of our most important targets: the preservation of the quality and quantity of our precious waters.
In this spirit, we prepare civil; mechanical; electrical and control engineering plans for stormwater management projects and their engineering facilities, stormwater drainage and management plans for industrial parks, highways and other major investments.
We provide a full range of services from stormwater management concept plans for municipalities and river basins, to the management of the implementation of the project. It is important for us to recycle rainwater, and to reuse it for irrigation and for fire water systems if possible.
Our innovative, patented solutions in the field of stormwater management are exceptional. In addition to the products, the installation methods are also environment-friendly, economical and efficient.
We are proud to have designed several pre-treatment facilities during which we were able to develop our own range of devices and equipment that have been installed and successfully operational.
Our company possesses a wide range of experiences and professional references in the field of municipal and industrial wastewater treatment. Besides designing the wastewater treatment technology that meets the requirements, we consider the cost-effectiveness and the selection of optimal solutions as a key factor.
For the technologies designed by BDL, we provide full technological guarantee, we provide the manuals and plans for the trial run, and if requested, we can supervise, evaluate, the trial run period as well.
At the beginning of the planning and design process, we always conduct a specific technical, short-term and long-term economic and profitability analysis, in order to select the best suited solution in accordance with the customer’s needs.
We support the economic aspects and decision of the project with Life-cycle cost analysis, in order to provide our clients with unique and specific solutions.
Municipal wastewater treatment
Besides “green fields” investments, we undertake the design tasks of refurbishment, reconstruction, intensification and extension of existing technologies as well.
Municipal wastewater treatment technologies:
For a higher efficiency:
Industrial wastewater treatment (paper industry, food industry, textile industry, chemical industry, oil industry) technologies:
Full range of engineering, construction and investment preparatory tasks:
One of our main activities is conventional civil engineering-design and implementation focusing on water utilities.
We carry out the planning and development of the networks point-like, plant -like facilities. We furthermore, often participate in the expansion, modification and reconstruction of existing networks and facilities.
Our Projects include the whole range of:
Full range of engineering, construction and investment preparatory tasks:
With the experience of more than hundred, operating facilities BDL offers you the complete professional design palette.
Technical consultancy:
We apply system approach to the problems threatening our waters, and focus on the complexity and comprehensiveness of their management. We do not consider only economic aspects but our development solutions take into account the environmental values of the ecosystem, its characteristics, so that we can provide unique, customer-focused solutions.
One of our professional expertise is environmental auditing and consulting: Preparing environmental impact assessments, status assessments and reviews of water utilities, technologies, pollution control, technology-, and operational cost optimization programs.
Our technical expertise covers the following activities:
Our colleagues in the different segments of the water industry possess an outstanding professional and innovative knowledge, which have been known and recognized in many parts of the world.
On corporate level we are member and acting leading roles in several international organizations, with a global perspective.
As a member of the Hungarian Water Cluster, with about 35 other members, we rely on the expertise and resources of around 2000 colleagues. Mr. Kovacs, as the President of the Hungarian Water Cluster and the Hungarian Wastewater Association, has been working for several years for the world-wide recognition of the Hungarian professional knowledge, in which the international organization leadership posts are important milestones.
The Hungarian Water Association’s (HWA) main aims is to provide qualified but yet independent professional services and assistance to experts in the field of urban water management and to the domestic water sector. Reacting to the 21st centuries’ professional challenges by working effectively as an advocate organization is among HWA tasks beyond resetting our support activities and cementing our foundations. HWA goal is to establish strong international network by linking partners, suppliers and specialists, as well as to facilitate knowledge transfer, continuous improvement of water management related know-how, and to promote innovation widely. Károly Kovács have been acting as president of HWA to improve the Hungarian water management. In fact, the HWA is an umbrella organization not only for operators and suppliers but our organization puts a lot of effort to connect water utility operators’ colleagues, designers to representatives of municipalities, water management directorates and authorities. Moreover involving educational organisations, professors and students to the professional work has a great emphasis among our objectives.
The European Water Association (EWA) is an independent non-governmental and non-profit making organisation dealing with the management and improvement of the water environment. It is one of the major professional associations in Europe that covers the whole water sector, wastewater as well as drinking water and water related waste.
With member associations from nearly all European countries EWA consists of most European Union Member States, including all countries from Central and Eastern Europe which joined the European Union on 1 June 2013. Other European countries represented within the EWA are Albania, Serbia, Norway, and Switzerland. The aim of EWA is to provide a forum for the discussion of key technical and policy issues affecting the growing European region. This is done through conferences, workshops, meetings and special working groups of experts all organised on an international basis together with regular publications. EWA informs its members on the development of EU legislation and standardisation and seeks to influence the drafting when appropriate. It has close contacts with the European Commission (DG Environment), the European Committee for Standardization (CEN), the European Environment Agency (EEA) and the European Parliament. Through this exchange of knowledge the objective of EWA is to contribute to sustainable water management, a safe water supply and the protection of the water and soil environment. In the framework of the Hungarian Water Cluster our company is playing an active role in EWA, between 2013 and 2015 Károly Kovács was the president of the organisation and now he is member of the management committee.
The Hungarian Water Utility Association was established in 1990 with the aim to act as an independent representative of the water sector’s interests, intermediating trade development and engineering services. BDL is member of HWUA, Károly Kovács is member of the economics committee as well.
The Hungarian Chamber of Engineers is a professional public body established by the 19 independent county chambers of engineers under the Act No. LVIII of 1996 on the Professional Chambers of the Engineers and Architects. It has 20 professional sections which can have sub-divisions on the county level. Members are also members of the county chamber of their home, and based on their respective qualifications and interests, are members of the professional section(s) too. Altogether the Hungarian Chamber of Engineers has almost 19,000 full members and is affiliated with another 13,000 registered professionals.
The Association of Environmental Enterprises was founded in 1992 by the cooperation of 26 companies. The Association is a business federation of the environmental industry. It realises lobbying keeping in mind the principles of environmental protection. The members (as our company) of the associations are environmental servicing companies, engineering companies, R+D+I companies and companies involved in water supply, water treatment , waste treatment, waste recovery, air pollution control, soil remediation, noise and vibration reduction, including the manufacturers and distributors of these equipment. The Association has now about 260 members representing the environmental industry. Our associated members are universities, research institutes and green NGOs. The supporting members are large companies, which respect the principles of environmental protection.
The ASEM Water Resources Research and Development Center founded in China, is a permanent research and development organization in water S&T cooperation under the framework of ASEM mechanism, which has been running smoothly for 15 years. The major objectives of the Center are to cultivate an effective mechanism, a high-quality work team and a well-established platform in water resources research and development, and gradually make it a multi-facets one, i.e. the center for Asian-European S&T research and coordination with international influence and charisma, the center of policy recommendations and technological consultations, the center of technological training and exchange, the R&D and test center for new products, and the demonstration & extension center for research achievements.
We take part in university education and training in the field of water and environmental engineering as well as Dynamic Cost Comparison Calculation, Life-Cycle costing, professional trainings.
Our company among its economic-related activities organises trainings in terms of Dynamic Cost Comparison Calculation (DCC) and Life-Cycle costing (LCC). These methodologies are easily taught by the economics and engineering professionals as well. Our colleagues, as experienced trainers, are involved in the effective training process in order our future partners will be able to use these costings during their project preparation work. Trainings and seminars are available in Hungarian and in English too. Popularity of our trainings can be measure our invitations, we have made presentations and technical forums on several international events. These events are not only for knowledge transfer but a very effective platform contributing to set up and increase professional networking and water development.
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