FACSA will deploy its technological potential in the wastewater sanitation service on the Costa Brava

• The Consorci d'Aigües Costa Brava Girona, as a supramunicipal entity and the contracting authority, entrusts the service to the joint venture FACSA-CALAF, after awarding it the bulk water supply for the area last year.
• The contract includes major improvements in energy efficiency, environmental protection, and technological advancements to support the intelligent management of the entire water cycle.

FACSA It continues its national expansion plan with the award by the Consorci d'Aigües Costa Brava Girona of the service of operation, conservation, maintenance and improvements of the high sanitation systems of the North and Central Zone 1. A service that the company will provide in a joint venture with CALAF Constructora for the next three years -extendable for two more years- for an amount of 18.554.831,99 euros.

In this way, the company - which is already responsible for the supply service of water In the area, it will treat the wastewater of 474.800 inhabitants through the management of a total of 13 treatment plants and 86 pumping stations, which pump a flow of 106.340 m³³/day. All this thanks to a team of 58 workers, including technical and operational staff, who have been transferred to the contract.

From a technological standpoint, the service will benefit from FACSA's potential, which, under its new brand Waternology, will contribute various digital solutions applied to the intelligent management of the entire water cycle. These solutions, based on technologies such as Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Digital Twins, will facilitate asset management, operational monitoring and remote control, as well as the intelligent management, analysis, and simulation of data.

At the same time, the award brings with it a strong commitment to training and knowledge transfer, through which new ways of working, procedures and experience are intended to be introduced to the Consorci d'Aigües to improve the facilities, the organization and, ultimately, the service.

From an environmental point of view, the service also takes an important step, since an inventory of greenhouse gases from the wastewater treatment activity of all sanitation systems will be carried out, using the UNE-EN-ISO 14064-1 standard as a calculation tool.

In addition, the energy term will be optimized by integrating photovoltaic solar panels for self-consumption of the facilities and solar thermal plants and promoting the implementation of improvements focused on optimizing energy efficiency based on ISO 50:001, a certification that the facilities already have.