Brickhouse Technologies - Recent Projects

The robust Sam McCoy step screen unit was recently installed at Ngaruawahia WWTP to screen raw inlet effluent and protect the upgraded pond system. 

In the midst of the Waikato Region and situated close by to the Waikato river is the Ngaruawahia Wastewater Treatment Plant facility, which has undergone a comprehensive upgrade over the summer of 08/09.  A critical component of this upgrade has been the installation of an inlet step screen and screenings press, supplied and installed by Brickhouse Technologies.  Waikato District Council chose the Sam McCoy Stepping Screen, a brand with many installations across the Tasman.  This decision followed detailed reference checks of the Australian installations by the specifying engineers where the common feedback was about the dependable and robust nature of these screens.  The Fine Stepping Screens are manufactured in Malaysia by the ISO certified company Sam McCoy, equipped with the best in German manufacturing equipment.  Their screens have origins from a Danish design which for many years they built under license for the European market.  Over the past 10 years Sam McCoy have created their own brand of water and wastewater treatment products.  Their Fine Stepping Screens follow the company’s philosophy of building robust and dependable equipment that requires little maintenance, therefore meaning few if any aftersales headaches for both the company and their worldwide network of distributors. 

The exclusive New Zealand distributor is Brickhouse Technologies, who have developed a company that services the water and watewater industries with quality and innovative equipment.  Brickhouse Technologies is the result of the vision to create a joint venture interest between two long standing and respected companies, Chenery Contracting and Proline Plastics. Their skillset includes advanced 3D computer design, with qualified mechanical engineers and two well-equipped workshops.  Brickhouse Technologies also has the capacity to design equipment specific to a projects exact needs, if the solution is not available elsewhere in the world! The installation of Brickhouse Technologies purpose built Septage Receiver Station is testament to this. 

At Ngaruawahia WWTP it becomes evident that the robust and dependable Sam McCoy inlet screening equipment will soon be as well recognised on this side of the Tasman as it is on the other.  In fact, at the time of writing, a further installation has since been completed with more NZ installations yet to come.   A futher reason why the Sam McCoy Fine Stepping Screens should become a well known name is the amount of flow control built in as standard.  Brickhouse Technologies commissioned the local company CAB Electrical to custom build their switchboard control to specifically suit the NZ market.  With experience in switchboard development, they integrated ultrasonic level control of flow height - giving the step screen more flexibility than typical probe control.  This enables multiple flow height inputs to be linked to a range of outputs.   Just another reason why the Ngaruawahia WWTP will not be alone with a Sam McCoy Fine Stepping Screen, a cost effective yet advanced option that is proudly supplied by Brickhouse Technologies for inlet screening works.