A vital part of Burns and Roe's complete services has been start-up, logistics support, and maintenance and operations programs at plant and site facilities around the world. Such services have been performed at seawater and fresh water treatment plants, research and development laboratories, test complexes, and major military bases and installations.

Burns and Roe provides expert operations, maintenance, repair, and construction services throughout the world. We mobilize and manage competent work forces for projects and facilities, large or small, simple or complex, in urban or remote locations. We support government and commercial organizations in the operation and maintenance of total bases or facilities (or discrete functions), including utilities, desalination, logistics support, transportation (including seaports and airfields, as well as road and rail vehicles and networks), housing, food service, safety and security. We define our success by a service credo comprised of four basic elements:

CUSTOMERS…long-term solutions built on partnering and quality service.
INNOVATION…continuous improvement, adapting new ideas and technologies to deliver more efficient performance.
PEOPLE…support service professionals who are motivated and empowered to maximize efficiency, quality, and customer service.
TEAMWORK…working with our customers, with full and open communications, to develop "win/win" solutions to every challenge.

Origins

In 1964, the water supply was cut off to the U.S. Naval Base, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and its 10,000 Naval and civilian personnel. Burns and Roe responded to the emergency successfully by providing the engineering, installation, operation, and maintenance services for a desalination plant capable of producing fresh water at the rate of one million gallons per day (GPD) within five months. This project marked the beginning of Burns and Roe's involvement in the Operations and Maintenance (O&M) business, and we have been actively supporting Guantanamo Bay (and numerous other sites) ever since.

Base Operating Services
Burns and Roe has amassed an impressive number of facility O&M past and current projects, including several significant Base Operating Services (BOS) contracts covering all aspects of operations at large installations. Some recent major efforts include Diego Garcia, Johnston Atoll, and Guantanamo Bay for the U.S. Navy. We also provided support to the U.S. Army at the 26th and 104th Area Support Group bases at Darmstadt, Giessen, and Hanau, Germany, and at the Stewart Army Sub-Post in New York.

We are actively pursuing customers considering "outsourcing" part or all of their facility O&M requirements for the first time. Burns and Roe has accomplished the transition of work from customer "in-house" staff to contractor employees several times, most recently on our German multi-base contract. We understand the potential problems and pitfalls and have excellent corporate support resources with which to overcome these transitional challenges. We invite queries on how Burns and Roe can custom design an O&M program to suit your company's particular needs.

Commercial O&M
Burns and Roe has a unique ability to organize and manage extremely complex projects requiring many different disciplines, including those utilizing the most advanced technologies. Our objective is to build long-term relationships with customers by taking comprehensive responsibility for the services we provide, thus enabling our customers to focus on their core businesses.

Our Commercial O&M experience includes pharmaceutical campuses, highly secure research and development laboratories, and manufacturing plants. We are actively pursuing projects at educational facilities and campuses by building on our expertise in utility plant operation, housing maintenance, and general facility engineering and services.

Desalination Facilities
Burns and Roe continues to be a recognized leader in engineering and technical analysis related to water desalination programs throughout the world. We specialize in plant management, engineering, O&M, and testing. Our expertise includes:

• Reverse osmosis, nanofiltration, ultrafiltration, and microfiltration plants
• Multistage flash, multieffect vertical and horizontal tube evaporators
• Dual-purpose electric power and seawater conversion plants
• Mobile test units and pilot plant equipment

Burns and Roe applies the latest technologies to the operation and maintenance of the plant, continually refining our procedures and work methods to ensure that both our workers and the plant perform at peak efficiency.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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