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Project Management - Scoping & Definition
Project Management - Scoping & Definition
| Scoping | Schedule | Indicative Cost Estimate | Procurement Strategy | Risk identification |
Engaged by a major coal-fired power station to undertake feasibility study to upgrade the existing fly ash load-out facility, i.e. Phase 1 (Scoping & Definition) of the project. Brief included: identification of optimal plant location; concept layout of facility; equipment sizing (including pneumatic conveying systems); development of indicative cost estimate; and the development of a detailed scoping document for the next phase of the project: Phase 2 Planning & Design.
Construction Management
Construction Management
| Contract management | Safety management | Concrete plant | Scheduling | Design water management system |
Construction management of a new concrete plant in SEQ including process design of the water management system.
Project Management
Project Management
| Business case| Process design | Specification and scoping | Tendering | Cost management | Scheduling |
Project management of a plant to grind granulated blast furnace slag in NZ. Plant included air-swept ball mill with air heater, dynamic air classifier, dust collector, dense phase conveying system, product storage, blending plant, tanker load out facility, and services (HV and LV power reticulation)
Responsibilities included process design, application for Resource Consent, development and monitoring of budget, procurement, scheduling, development of specifications, tendering, and contract management.
Challenges included: procurement during COVID (long-lead time items, and many items in short supply); constructing inside a building on the waterfront in Auckland (noise issues); and inflation.
Project Engineering
Project Engineering
| Plant and equipment specifications | Concrete plant design |
Based on our significant experience with designing and commissioning large, project-based paving plants, Pentral Fultum was engaged by a major concrete producer in NZ to assist with the design of a temporary concrete plant to supply paving concrete to an expansion at Auckland airport. Scope included concrete plant, water management system, sample stand, traffic management, and laboratory.
Project Engineering
Project Engineering
| Packing | Material handling | Automation | Training |
Packaging plant capacity review identified that palletising robot was the rate limiting step in packaging of bagged product. New palletising robot scoped, tendered, installed, and commissioned. Packing rate increased from 700bags/hour to over 1100 bags/hour with new palletising robot.
Maintenance management system implementation
Maintenance management system implementation
| Maintenance strategies | Asset identification | Spares analysis | Training | FMECA | Reliability improvement |
Implementation of a cloud-based CMMS, including setting up asset hierarchy, identification of preventive and predictive maintenance tasks, training of maintenance and operations personnel, setting up stores/spares system. Role-out included development of dashboard to monitor effectiveness.
Process improvement
Process improvement
| Root cause analysis | Material handling |
Root cause analysis of flow issues with manufactured sand in large rectangular bins. Client implemented recommendation on the design of bin liners. Flow significantly improved.
Equipment commissioning
Equipment commissioning
| Planning | Systems | Scheduling | Commissioning |
Management of assembly and commissioning of the first Australian Wildcat underground continuous miner.
Project management
Project management
| ALL aspects of project management from concept to commissioning | Planning | Cost management | Scheduling | Risk management | Technology evaluation | Contract negotiation | Contractor management | Commissioning | Training |
Management of the development of a new pre-cast concrete facility in NZ.
Project management
Project management
| Construction management | Scheduling | Planning | Cost management | Contract negotiation | Commissioning |
Management of the construction and commissioning of a new concrete batch plant on the Gold Coast.
Maintenance improvement
Maintenance improvement
| Planning | Systems | Scheduling | Behaviour-based maintenance management | Supply chain optimisation | Resource optimisation |
Introduction of materials requirements planning systems to improve overhaul of underground mining equipment.
Construction Management
Construction Management
| Planning | Scheduling | Contract negotiation | Contractor management | Commissioning |
Management of construction and commissioning of new packaging line for pre-mixed construction materials.
Construction management
Construction management
| Contractor management | Commissioning |
Management of the installation and commissioning of a new grist mill and case for micro brewery.
Construction management
Construction management
| Contractor management | Safety management | Commissioning |
Management of the installation and commissioning of new fermentation tanks, bright beer tanks, and water chiller in an existing micro brewery.
Front end engineering for Development applications
Front end engineering for Development applications
| Mathematical modelling/simulation | Environment | Development application | Concept design | Risk register | Hazardous chemicals and dangerous goods registers |
Identification and documentation of environmental aspects and impacts for new plants and upgrades. Preliminary emission modelling using simple plume modelling.
Development of concept layout sufficient for development application ensuring maximum flexibility in consented design.
Documentation of emission releases (particulates, noise, traffic, odour, water) from the plant for the purposes of detailed modelling for the development application.
Modelling
Modelling
| Mathematical modelling/simulation | Project cost estimation | Risk management |
Development of a mathematical model to determine the likely cost of a project using a Monte Carlo approach. Each cost estimate assumed to have a lognormal probability distribution. Model developed in Python.
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