[Ulaanbaatar city, May 10, 2022] – Millennium Challenge Account-Mongolia signed a Wastewater Recycling Plant Design-Build Contract with MCS Property LLC, which is the winning bidder of the procurement for the Wastewater Recycling Plant Design-Build, on May 10, 2022. The event was held in Tuul conference hall of MCA-Mongolia office, and Mrs. Uranchimeg Gantumur, Acting CEO of MCA-Mongolia and Mr. Davaa-Ochir Baatarkhuu, CEO of MCS Property LLC, signed the Contract. The plant is one of the two largest construction projects to be built under the Compact.

MCS Property LLC, a leading EPCM contractor in Mongolia and now the contractor for the Wastewater Recycling Plant Design and Build work, is a subsidiary of MCS Group and has successfully delivered more than 60 projects ranging from small to mega-scale and varying in residential, commercial, industrial, and mining projects including Shangri-La Center, Coca-Cola Factory, Tiger Brewery, Sky Resort Golf Course and Ski Resort, Intermed Hospital, NUBIA Aircraft Hangar, Bella Vista Luxury Apartment, Oyu Tolgoi Underground Constructions, and Ukhaa Khudag Mining developments. The company has been successful in architectural and industrial engineering and has participated in international projects with world-leading construction companies such as Jacobs Engineering, Worley, Samsung C&T, and Mitsubishi Chiyoda.

Construction of the Wastewater Recycling Plant (WRP) will be completed in the first half of 2025 and commissioned in the first quarter of 2026, after the completion of testing and adjustment. Once in full operation, WRP, which is the first of its kind in Mongolia, will treat 50,000 cubic meters/day of effluent from the new CWWTP and deliver this recycled wastewater to the combined heating and power plants, the city’s largest consumers of water. As a result, it will reduce the need for freshwater by up to 18 million cubic meters/ year, thereby making freshwater available for household and industrial consumption.

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The Government of Mongolia and the U.S. Millennium Challenge Corporation signed the $350 million Mongolia Water Compact on July 27, 2018. The Compact is funding major infrastructure projects, including the construction of new wellfields and two large plants - an Advanced Water Purification Plant and Wastewater Recycling Plant which will be the first of their kind in Mongolia. In addition, the Compact will invest in policy measures to create a financially and environmentally sustainable future for the water sector of Ulaanbaatar. By 2026, the water system in Ulaanbaatar will have been expanded to deliver 80% more drinking water, allowing for the city’s future expansion.