Hatch Project - Long Harbour Processing Plant

50,000 tpa

nickel rounds

5,000 tpa

copper cathodes

2,500 tpa

cobalt rounds

Challenges

Finish engineering and construction work in a timely manner to eliminate any impact of project schedule.
Unfinished and problematic scope needed to be identified to reduce field engineering changes and rework.
Organize and incorporate approximately one terabyte of existing data or deliverables into the phase 2 plan, including 43,800 engineering and vendor deliverables from over 350 vendor packages from an earlier project phase.

Through complete and detailed area walk-downs, site data was collected to assess the installation condition and status of each plant area.
Collected site data was compiled and communicated using iPads and mobile data applications for “instant-office” connections with low dependency on IT infrastructure.
Queryable 3D iModels were used in the field to determine unfinished or problematic scope, resulting in reduced field-engineering changes and rework.
The engineering and integrated-project teams collaborated to reduce deliverable milestones by two months, meeting an aggressive project recovery schedule, and reducing cost.

All major engineering milestones were met and the engineering project ran significantly under original budget.
Installation of the 2015 contract packages was completed on schedule, with the remaining scope scheduled for completion in 2016.
Process design modifications made during project execution permitted a phased approach to construction and subsequent interim operations.
The engineering team modified design deliverables in a timely manner to eliminate any impact on the project schedule.