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Customer: BCI Minerals Contract: Early Contractor Involvement Location: Pilbara, Western Australia   |
Fast Facts
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We designed and constructed the marine structures for BCI Minerals’ Mardie Salt & Potash Project in Western Australia, using our innovative canti-traveller system for speed and low impact delivery.
The 'Mardie' Project is a large-scale, solar evaporation operation on the Pilbara coast. Capacity of the completed facility is estimated to be 5.35 million tonnes per annum of high purity salt and 140,000 tonnes per annum of sulphate of potash, over an operating life of at least 60 years.
Awarded following a competitive four-month Early Contractor Involvement process, our marine structures package was the largest capital works contract for the Project.
Our scope of work included the design, supply, fabrication, construction, installation, testing and commissioning of:
- a piled 2.4 km jetty structure with head-end platform, berthing and mooring dolphins. Construction involved more than 200 steel piles, each up to 30 metres long and weighing a combined 3,800 tonnes.
- a materials handling conveyor system including shiploader.
- non-process infrastructure comprising fire suppression equipment, employee amenities, fixed crane, channel markers and other navigation aids.
- ancillary equipment, including security gates, CCTV, lighting, outfall pipe on jetty, diffuser, and emergency boat launcher.
The project was an exemplar of what can be achieved in coastal protection during major marine construction.
By using our purpose-built canti-traveller system to build the 2.4 km long wharf, we minimised our construction footprint and impact, preserving the region’s rich marine and coastal flora and fauna to the fullest extent possible.
