Sino Iron Ore Project

The Sino Iron Project is Australia's first major magnetite project and the second largest project currently under construction in the Pilbara.

Due to its remote location 1200 kilometres north of Perth in Western Australia, the client CITIC Pacific Mining Management Pty Ltd required the development of dedicated infrastructure to support the USD3.5billion greenfields sino iron project.

The scale, complexity and contribution to regional infrastructure sets the project apart. It comprises of mine operations, ore concentrate plant, 25km slurry pipeline delivering product to port, concentrate filter, 6 million tonne pelletising plant, stockyard and material handling systems, 450MW gas-fired power station, 51gigelitre desalination plant, power transmission and transforming facility, water supply network in plant area, accommodation, new port and transhipment facilities.

The Australian subsidiary of the Chinese EPC Contractor, MCC, is delivering the infrastructure associated with the project. GHD has been appointed to assist MCC's main design contractor, NETC (based in China) to review their designs for compliance with Australian and West Australian standards. GHD is also undertaking the structural design calculations and risk analysis for the project, as well as tailings dam stability and a safety analysis review.

The first production and ramp up for the project will start from mid-2010.

Asset & Facilities Management

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GHD has directed much of its research effort to understanding what makes a successful and sustainable asset/facility management program work for all levels of activity. GHD has benchmarking data, tools and training material aimed at helping businesses understand their current approach to managing assets/facilities, how they compare with similar businesses and best appropriate practice, and what issues require most urgent attention in the journey towards improved asset management.

GHD can provide clients with a tailored roadmap. We supplement this with the tools, templates and training to assist an organisation move its culture and processes towards optimal asset management performance.

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Economics & Policy

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The diversity of skills and experience in our professional consulting team, which includes former executives from industry and government as well as leaders in research, allows us to provide a wide range of services to companies and government agencies throughout Australia and overseas. The skills and knowledge of our team are our key sources of competitive advantage. So we continuously invest in these through formal and informal learning.

In all of our consulting assignments, we focus on developing solutions that address our clients’ needs in a practical and sustainable way. We value longstanding relationships with our clients, and we strive to build these relationships by working side by side with them rather than adopting a distant advisory position.

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Geotechnical

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Our specialists travel to remote regions around the globe to service projects, often through their entire life cycle. Our services cover:

Investigation

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ITS

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GHD, with its multi-disciplinary team of road, rail, traffic, electrical, control, information and communications engineers, has a wealth of knowledge and experience in the identification of user needs and the selection and application of ITS technologies to meet these needs.

The GHD ITS team includes professionals with extensive experience in the public sector with roles in procurement, operation, management and maintenance.

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Mining Engineering

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We understand both the business and technical issues involved in delivering optimum project outcomes for your mining business. The mining industry is a continually changing competitive environment and together we can develop flexible and innovative solutions.

GHD has a broad range of technically oriented specialists to support every stage of your mining and quarrying life cycle. We have the capability and commitment to assist you to successfully and profitably develop your mining prospect, operation or expansion plans.

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Structures

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GHD has a strong reputation and record of accomplishment in providing specialised technical support and advice for all areas of structural design and assessment. Demand for GHD’s services continues to grow as the company completes and advises on a number of significant structural projects for some of the world's tallest buildings, inlcuding Al-Bidaa Tower, Dubai Tower and the Doha Convention Center and Tower in the United Arab Emirates. We have also worked on Federation Tower in Moscow, the award-winning Melbourne Mausoleum, sports complexes in China, energy projects in Chile and Australia, desalination plants in the USA, and several mining and industry projects in Australia, New Zealand and China.

The structures team promotes an open and positive involvement in the initial design process and prepares designs that are functional, economical and safe. Most importantly the team strives to meet client requirements. GHD can deliver innovative, sustainable design solutions anywhere in the world using building information modelling and management software to achieve a macro design perspective. GHD bases its approach on actively engaging with its clients during project development to deliver successful projects.

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Tailings

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Over the past 30 years, GHD has gained a high level of local and international recognition for its cost-effective, practical, and innovative methods used in tailings design and management. GHD is represented on national and international technical committees including Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM), Australian National Committee on Large Dams (ANCOLD) and close links with other organisations such as the Australian Centre for Geomechanics (ACG).

Successful tailings and mine waste management must incorporate many disciplines to produce safe and reliable solutions. GHD provides many of these skills in-house and customises project teams to provide a focused service that meets client needs.

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