BDL Ltd. – In service of sustainable and affordable water management
BDL Environmental Ltd. is committed to offer its partners personalized, systematic solutions in all aspects of the water industry.
We conduct our activities with special devotion to professionalism and environmental protection in the fields of drinking water purification, wastewater treatment, storm water management and environmental remediation.
We are present from the beginning of solving environmental issues: from the technological and environmental assessment, through the determination of development directions, the preparation of investment concepts and tender plans, classic civil engineering designing, until trial operation.
The engineering and business knowledge and broad experience of our staff and partners, covers the full technical fields related to design (technology, civil engineering, control engineering and automation), and the complex financial and economic knowledge associated with water utility services, investment planning and implementations.
Due to our diverse professional activities, we consider both technical, ecological, and economical aspects, to find the most sustainable alternatives, to support our clients in optimal decision making.
Over the past decades, we have contributed significantly to the development and proteciton of the aquatic environment in Hungary and in the neighboring countries, as well as the improvement and expansion of the Hungarian water utility services.
Our colleagues in the different segments of the water industry possess an outstanding professional and innovative knowledge, which have been known and recognized in many parts of the world. Our CEO, Mr. Károly Kovács is the President of the European Water Association (EWA), the Hungarian Water Cluster and Vice President of the Eurasian ASEM Water Academic Development Committee.
As a member of the Hungarian Water Cluster, with 24 other corporate members, we can rely on the expertise and resources of more than 2000 colleagues
Thanks to our continuous growth, now we are working together with private and public clients, partners, institutions in and outside Europe.
Technical and Economic consultancy
We apply system approach to the problems threatening our waters, and focus on the complexity and comprehensiveness of their management. We not only consider economic aspects, our development solutions take into account the environmental values of the ecosystem, its characteristics, so that we can provide unique, customer -specific solutions.
In accordance with the European requirements we apply in the design process the method of Dynamic Cost Comparison (DCC) developed with our active contribution, in order to prepare well-established professional decisions through applying the economic principles of cost-efficiency and sustainability related to development of waterworks in practice.
The DCC Guidelines provides an efficient way to perform option analysis for the various technical solutions, in order to improve the cost efficiency and sustainability of the water utility developments, as well as to improve the decision-making process.
The DCC method is completely consistent with the domestic and EU legislations and methodological recommendations, its calculation process as well as the presentation of the results is schematic, so the results can be easily understood, it is transparent and straightforward for engineers, economists and policy-makers alike.
Besides economical consultancy, we regularly organize trainings and seminars, we are lecturers in demand at major universities. We deliver presentations at national and international conferences on the best practices of asset management, Life Cycle Costing (LCC) approach and Dynamic Cost Comparison (DCC) to achieve sustainable and professional long term utility management.
We also provide technical evaluation activities; by systematic assessment, we can provide complex suggestions, to improve the effectiveness of existing facilities, and to decrease operational cost and ecological footprint.
BDL provides you sound professional basis to make optimal decisions considering both technological and economic aspects.
Civil engineering:
One of our main activities is classical civil engineering-design and implementation; within that we specialize in the design and implementation of water utilities.
We carry out the planning and development of the networks point-like, plant -like facilities. We furthermore, often participate in the expansion, modification and reconstruction of existing networks and facilities.
Our Projects include the whole range of:
Full range of engineering, construction and investment preparatory tasks:
With the experience of more than hundred, operating facilities BDL offers you the complete professional design palette.
Utility Asset Evaluation and Reconstruction Planning
The sustainable maintenance of the water utilities is in the context of asset management, and the coverage for this is provided by the depreciation of the assets.
The evaluation of the water utilities is the bases for a predictable operation. The Structured utility asset database, established as a result of the utility asset evaluation process, with this operators, municipalities; utility owners are given an objective view of the value of the utility assets, their real economic and technical state. Based on these the operators and owners are capable of efficient and a sustainable asset management and better operational decision-making.
Developed by our Utility Asset Evaluation department, the multi-faceted, Integrated Utilities Assessment Database ( TIKA ) software received, in 2012, the Eco -Aqua Trade award from the Hungarian Water Utility Association, which counts among its members a 170 water utility provider, several water industrial companies and educational institutions.
Due to our multi-faceted integrated utility asset evaluation methodology, it is possible to create sustainable and responsible bases for asset management and to optimize the utility service tariffs.
Multi-faceted integrated utility assessment levels:
Geodetic survey, creation of utility base maps
Public utility registry, digitizing public utility maps
Identifying, defining Object Groups, establishing the asset inventory
Assessment of Technical Condition
Assessment of depreciation indicators
Calculation of replacement costs
Determination of asset value – utility evaluation
Our company among its economic-related activities organises trainings in terms of Dynamic Cost Comparison Calculation (DCC) and Life-Cycle costing (LCC). These methodologies are easily taught by the economics and engineering professionals as well. Our colleagues, as experienced trainers, are involved in the effective training process in order our future partners will be able to use these costings during their project preparation work. Trainings and seminars are available in Hungarian and in English too. Popularity of our trainings can be measure our invitations, we have made presentations and technical forums on several international events. These events are not only for knowledge transfer but a very effective platform contributing to set up and increase professional networking and water development.
We take part in university education and training in the field of water and environmental engineering as well as Dynamic Cost Comparison Calculation, Life-Cycle costing, professional trainings.
Our colleagues in the different segments of the water industry possess an outstanding professional and innovative knowledge, which have been known and recognized in many parts of the world.
On corporate level we are member and acting leading roles in several international organizations, with a global perspective.
As a member of the Hungarian Water Cluster, with about 35 other members, we rely on the expertise and resources of around 2000 colleagues. Mr. Kovacs, as the President of the Hungarian Water Cluster and the Hungarian Wastewater Association, has been working for several years for the world-wide recognition of the Hungarian professional knowledge, in which the international organization leadership posts are important milestones.
The Hungarian Water Association’s (HWA) main aims is to provide qualified but yet independent professional services and assistance to experts in the field of urban water management and to the domestic water sector. Reacting to the 21st centuries’ professional challenges by working effectively as an advocate organization is among HWA tasks beyond resetting our support activities and cementing our foundations. HWA goal is to establish strong international network by linking partners, suppliers and specialists, as well as to facilitate knowledge transfer, continuous improvement of water management related know-how, and to promote innovation widely. Károly Kovács have been acting as president of HWA to improve the Hungarian water management. In fact, the HWA is an umbrella organization not only for operators and suppliers but our organization puts a lot of effort to connect water utility operators’ colleagues, designers to representatives of municipalities, water management directorates and authorities. Moreover involving educational organisations, professors and students to the professional work has a great emphasis among our objectives.
The European Water Association (EWA) is an independent non-governmental and non-profit making organisation dealing with the management and improvement of the water environment. It is one of the major professional associations in Europe that covers the whole water sector, wastewater as well as drinking water and water related waste.
With member associations from nearly all European countries EWA consists of most European Union Member States, including all countries from Central and Eastern Europe which joined the European Union on 1 June 2013. Other European countries represented within the EWA are Albania, Serbia, Norway, and Switzerland. The aim of EWA is to provide a forum for the discussion of key technical and policy issues affecting the growing European region. This is done through conferences, workshops, meetings and special working groups of experts all organised on an international basis together with regular publications. EWA informs its members on the development of EU legislation and standardisation and seeks to influence the drafting when appropriate. It has close contacts with the European Commission (DG Environment), the European Committee for Standardization (CEN), the European Environment Agency (EEA) and the European Parliament. Through this exchange of knowledge the objective of EWA is to contribute to sustainable water management, a safe water supply and the protection of the water and soil environment. In the framework of the Hungarian Water Cluster our company is playing an active role in EWA, between 2013 and 2015 Károly Kovács was the president of the organisation and now he is member of the management committee.
The Hungarian Water Utility Association was established in 1990 with the aim to act as an independent representative of the water sector’s interests, intermediating trade development and engineering services. BDL is member of HWUA, Károly Kovács is member of the economics committee as well.
The Hungarian Chamber of Engineers is a professional public body established by the 19 independent county chambers of engineers under the Act No. LVIII of 1996 on the Professional Chambers of the Engineers and Architects. It has 20 professional sections which can have sub-divisions on the county level. Members are also members of the county chamber of their home, and based on their respective qualifications and interests, are members of the professional section(s) too. Altogether the Hungarian Chamber of Engineers has almost 19,000 full members and is affiliated with another 13,000 registered professionals.
The Association of Environmental Enterprises was founded in 1992 by the cooperation of 26 companies. The Association is a business federation of the environmental industry. It realises lobbying keeping in mind the principles of environmental protection. The members (as our company) of the associations are environmental servicing companies, engineering companies, R+D+I companies and companies involved in water supply, water treatment , waste treatment, waste recovery, air pollution control, soil remediation, noise and vibration reduction, including the manufacturers and distributors of these equipment. The Association has now about 260 members representing the environmental industry. Our associated members are universities, research institutes and green NGOs. The supporting members are large companies, which respect the principles of environmental protection.
The ASEM Water Resources Research and Development Center founded in China, is a permanent research and development organization in water S&T cooperation under the framework of ASEM mechanism, which has been running smoothly for 15 years. The major objectives of the Center are to cultivate an effective mechanism, a high-quality work team and a well-established platform in water resources research and development, and gradually make it a multi-facets one, i.e. the center for Asian-European S&T research and coordination with international influence and charisma, the center of policy recommendations and technological consultations, the center of technological training and exchange, the R&D and test center for new products, and the demonstration & extension center for research achievements.
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