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Customer: BCI Minerals Contract: Early Contractor Involvement Location: Pilbara, Western Australia   |
Fast Facts
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We're designing and constructing the marine structures for BCI Minerals’ Mardie Salt & Potash Project in Western Australia, using our innovative canti-traveler system for speed and low-impact delivery.
The Mardie Project represents a rare, sustainable opportunity to develop a large-scale, solar evaporation operation on the Pilbara coast. The capacity of the facility once complete 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 followed a competitive four-month Early Contractor Involvement process, our marine structures package is the largest capital works contract for the Project.
Our scope of work includes the design, supply, fabrication, construction, installation, testing and commissioning of:
- a piled 2.4 km jetty structure with the head-end platform, berthing, and mooring dolphins. Construction involves anchoring to the ocean floor more than 200 steel piles, each up to 30 metres long and weighing a combined 3,800 tonnes.
- a materials handling conveyor system including a shiploader.
- non-process infrastructure comprising fire suppression equipment, employee amenities, a fixed crane, channel markers, and other navigation aids.
- ancillary equipment, including security gates, CCTV, lighting, outfall pipe on the jetty, diffuser, and emergency boat launcher.
The project is an exemplar of what can be achieved in coastal protection during major marine construction.
By using our purpose-built canti-traveler system to build the 2.4 km long wharf, we're minimising our construction footprint and impact, preserving the region’s rich marine and coastal flora and fauna to the fullest extent possible.
Check out the video below for the most recent flyover!
