Aecom Gets Contract For Newtown Creek Renewable Natural Gas Project

(RTTNews) - Engineering design firm Aecom Technology Corp. (ACM) Wednesday said it has been awarded a design-build contract from National Grid, in partnership with the New York City Department of Environmental Protection, to provide engineering, procurement and construction services for Newtown Creek Renewable Natural Gas Project in New York City.

The project will consist of injecting pipeline-quality gas into National Grid's existing gas network through designing and constructing a purification system that converts biogas by-product from the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant into renewable natural gas for residential and commercial use.

Construction of the purification system will begin this year and is expected to be completed by fall 2016, the firm said.