Ensuring Clean Water Infrastructure for Communities
Water is the most precious resource on earth. In the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, where water scarcity is a defining challenge and where every drop must be carefully managed, the infrastructure that captures, treats, stores, and distributes water is among the nation’s most critical assets. From desalination plants and water treatment facilities to reservoirs, pumping stations, and wastewater treatment systems, these structures are essential to public health, environmental protection, and sustainable development. They provide the clean water that sustains communities, treat wastewater to protect the environment, and enable the agricultural and industrial activities that drive economic growth. At Arabian Strengthening & Protection Co., we understand the profound responsibility that comes with protecting water infrastructure. We deliver specialized construction, rehabilitation, and protection solutions engineered to withstand the unique challenges of water and wastewater environments—continuous immersion, chemical exposure, biological attack, and demanding operational requirements—ensuring that water assets remain safe, reliable, and functional for generations to come.
The Importance of Marine & Ports Infrastructure
Water and wastewater assets are fundamental to public health, environmental protection, and community well-being. They ensure safe drinking water for communities, providing the essential resource that sustains life and supports health. They treat wastewater to protect natural resources and ecosystems, preventing pollution of groundwater, surface water, and coastal waters that are vital to the Kingdom’s environment. They support the Kingdom’s water security goals through desalination and treatment, reducing dependence on non-renewable groundwater resources and ensuring sustainable water supplies. They enable sustainable urban and industrial development, providing the water infrastructure that supports growing cities and expanding industries. They supply water for agriculture, industry, and commerce, supporting the economic activities that drive national prosperity. These facilities operate in some of the most demanding environments imaginable—continuous water exposure that stresses materials, chemical attack from chlorides, sulfates, and treatment chemicals, biological growth that accelerates deterioration, and constant operation that leaves no room for downtime. Without quality construction and ongoing protection, water and wastewater assets deteriorate, leading to leaks, contamination risks, operational failures, and costly disruptions that threaten public health and environmental safety.
Our Expertise in Water & Wastewater
At Arabian Strengthening & Protection Co., we bring specialized expertise to the water and wastewater sector through an integrated approach that combines robust general construction with advanced structural protection solutions. Our services span the full spectrum of water and wastewater assets, ensuring that each facility is built to perform under demanding conditions and protected to endure for decades.
Water treatment plants—including potable water treatment facilities, desalination plants, and filtration facilities—are the front line of water supply, converting raw water into safe drinking water. Our services for water treatment plants encompass general construction of new facilities, concrete rehabilitation for treatment basins, tanks, and structures, waterproofing to prevent leakage and protect against chemical attack, structural evaluation to assess ongoing condition and identify deterioration, and protective linings and coatings for tanks and basins. These services ensure that water treatment plants operate reliably, producing safe drinking water for communities.
Wastewater treatment plants—including municipal wastewater treatment facilities and industrial effluent treatment systems—protect the environment by treating wastewater before it is returned to nature or reused. Our services for wastewater treatment plants include concrete rehabilitation for aeration basins, clarifiers, and treatment structures, chemical-resistant coatings to protect against aggressive wastewater chemistry, cathodic protection to control corrosion of steel and reinforced concrete components, waterproofing to prevent leakage and groundwater contamination, structural evaluation to assess condition and remaining service life, and protective linings for tanks and channels. These services ensure that wastewater treatment plants operate effectively, protecting the environment and public health.
Reservoirs and storage tanks—including potable water reservoirs, elevated tanks, and ground storage tanks—hold the water that supplies communities, providing storage capacity that ensures reliable supply. Our services for reservoirs and storage tanks include waterproofing to ensure watertight integrity and prevent leakage, concrete rehabilitation to repair cracking, spalling, and deterioration, cathodic protection to control corrosion of reinforcement and steel components, structural evaluation to assess condition and remaining capacity, and protective coatings for interior surfaces. These services protect the stored water from contamination and ensure that reservoirs and tanks remain safe and functional.
Pumping stations—including water pumping stations, wastewater pumping stations, and lift stations—move water and wastewater through treatment and distribution systems, overcoming elevation changes and moving water to where it is needed. Our services for pumping stations include general construction of new facilities, concrete rehabilitation for wet wells, dry wells, and structures, waterproofing to protect below-grade components, and MEP systems including pumps, controls, and instrumentation. These services ensure that water and wastewater flow reliably through the systems that serve communities.
Pipelines and conveyance systems—including water transmission lines, sewer networks, and force mains—form the distribution network that delivers water to customers and collects wastewater for treatment. Our services for pipelines include cathodic protection for steel and ductile iron pipelines, structural evaluation to assess condition and identify corrosion or deterioration, and soil injection for pipeline support and stabilization. These services protect the extensive pipeline networks that form the backbone of water and wastewater systems.
Clarifiers and basins—including sedimentation basins, clarifiers, aeration basins, and oxidation ditches—are the heart of treatment processes, providing the time and environment for physical, chemical, and biological treatment to occur. Our services for clarifiers and basins include concrete rehabilitation to repair deterioration from chemical attack and abrasion, waterproofing to prevent leakage, protective linings to resist chemical attack, and structural evaluation to assess condition and remaining service life. These services ensure that treatment processes operate effectively and reliably.
Channels and canals—including irrigation canals, drainage channels, and open channels—convey water across the landscape for agricultural, industrial, and drainage purposes. Our services for channels and canals include concrete rehabilitation to repair deteriorated linings, waterproofing to reduce seepage and water loss, and soil injection for foundation stabilization. These services support the efficient conveyance of water for agriculture and drainage.
Our Comprehensive Services for Water & Wastewater
Our services for the water and wastewater sector encompass every aspect of construction, rehabilitation, and protection, delivered with a deep understanding of the unique demands of water infrastructure and the critical importance of operational reliability.
General construction forms the foundation of our water and wastewater services. We deliver turnkey solutions for water treatment plants including desalination facilities, filtration plants, and potable water treatment; wastewater treatment plants including municipal treatment facilities and industrial effluent treatment; reservoirs and tanks including concrete reservoirs, elevated storage tanks, and ground storage tanks; pumping stations including water pumping stations and wastewater lift stations; and pipeline infrastructure including transmission lines and distribution networks. Our construction approach emphasizes potable water safety requirements, continuous operation criticality, chemical and biological exposure considerations, and strict quality and safety standards.
Waterproofing systems are essential to water and wastewater structures, which demand absolute watertight integrity to prevent leakage and contamination. Our waterproofing solutions include cementitious coatings and epoxy linings for potable water tanks, chemical-resistant coatings and polyurea linings for wastewater tanks and basins, liquid-applied membranes and sheet membranes for reservoirs, chemical-resistant coatings for clarifiers and sedimentation basins, below-grade waterproofing for pumping stations, and cementitious linings and injection grouting for channels and canals. These systems prevent leakage and water loss from potable water systems, prevent groundwater contamination from wastewater facilities, protect concrete from chemical attack and biological degradation, extend asset life and reduce maintenance costs, and ensure compliance with environmental regulations.
Concrete rehabilitation and repair is essential to maintaining water and wastewater structures that face unique deterioration challenges including chemical attack, biological growth, abrasion, and continuous immersion. We address water tanks and reservoirs requiring crack injection, spall repair, surface restoration, and protective coatings; wastewater tanks and basins requiring chemical-resistant repair mortars, protective linings, and corrosion mitigation; clarifiers and sedimentation basins requiring repair of deteriorated concrete and abrasion-resistant overlays; pumping stations requiring concrete repair, leak sealing, and structural strengthening; channels and canals requiring joint repair, surface restoration, and abrasion protection; and headworks and influent structures requiring heavy-duty repairs for abrasive and corrosive conditions. Our concrete rehabilitation services restore structural integrity and watertightness, extend service life by decades, prevent leakage and contamination, and reduce long-term maintenance costs.
Cathodic protection provides the ultimate defense against corrosion in water and wastewater structures. Our corrosion control services include impressed current cathodic protection for large structures such as tanks, reservoirs, clarifiers, and treatment basins; sacrificial anode systems for localized protection, repair zones, and smaller structures; galvanic systems for protection of reinforcing steel in concrete structures; discrete anode systems for targeted protection of high-risk areas; and tank bottom protection for steel tank foundations. Cathodic protection stops active corrosion at the source, extends asset life by decades, protects against chloride and chemical attack, and reduces long-term maintenance and replacement costs.
Structural evaluation and diagnostics provide the foundation for informed maintenance and capital planning for water and wastewater assets. Our comprehensive assessment services include visual inspection to document visible distress including cracking, spalling, leakage, and corrosion; non-destructive testing using rebound hammer, ultrasonic pulse velocity, ground-penetrating radar, and half-cell potential; corrosion assessment including chloride content analysis, corrosion rate measurement, and half-cell potential mapping; leak detection to identify leakage pathways and water loss; material testing to determine concrete strength, chemical resistance, and coating condition; and load capacity analysis to assess structural capacity for current and future loads. These services identify hidden deterioration before it causes failure, enable planned, cost-effective maintenance, support safety and environmental compliance, and extend asset life through timely intervention.
Soil injection and ground stabilization address the foundation challenges that can compromise water and wastewater facilities. These facilities often face foundation issues including settlement, soft soils, and groundwater issues. Our techniques include compaction grouting to stabilize loose soils under tanks, basins, and pumping stations; permeation grouting to improve soil strength for foundation support; chemical grouting for rapid stabilization, void filling, and water flow control; jet grouting to create soil-cement columns for foundation support; and underpinning to strengthen existing foundations for increased loads. These services provide tank foundation stabilization, pumping station foundation repair, settlement correction for basins and structures, and groundwater control and sealing.
Structural strengthening enhances the capacity of water and wastewater facilities to accommodate increased loads, changed processes, or new equipment. Our strengthening solutions include fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) for column strengthening, beam reinforcement, and tank walls; steel plate bonding for structural reinforcement; section enlargement to increase member dimensions; external post-tensioning for strengthening beams, slabs, and tank walls; and tank wall strengthening to enhance capacity for increased hydrostatic pressure.
Protective linings and coatings defend water and wastewater structures against chemical and biological attack. Our lining solutions include epoxy linings for potable water tanks, chemical containment, and abrasion-resistant surfaces; polyurea linings for wastewater tanks, clarifiers, high-abrasion areas, and rapid application; cementitious linings for potable water tanks, channels, and canals; polyurethane linings for chemical-resistant applications and flexible protection; and ceramic linings for high-abrasion areas, grit chambers, and headworks.
Our Approach to Water & Wastewater Projects
Our approach to water and wastewater projects is shaped by the unique demands of these facilities and the critical importance of protecting public health and the environment. For potable water structures, we use only approved materials that meet strict safety standards, ensuring no contamination risk to drinking water. For wastewater facilities, we engineer solutions that resist hydrogen sulfide attack, sulfuric acid generation, and other corrosive conditions common in wastewater environments. Water and wastewater facilities operate continuously to serve communities, and we design our rehabilitation and protection work to be executed with minimal disruption through strategic scheduling, phased work, and temporary bypass systems where necessary. Our solutions are designed for decades of reliable performance, reducing future maintenance needs and ensuring continuous service to communities. We maintain rigorous quality control protocols, including material testing, application verification, and post-installation testing to ensure watertight integrity and long-term performance.
