MINING

Newcastle Coal Export Terminal, NSW (NCIG)

Project Overview
In September 2008 Theiss, contracted by NCIG, began the construction of a component section of a brand new industrial Coal Export Terminal (CET) worth $105 million on Kooragang Island.

Theiss's small but integral part of the $1 billion project demanded the construction and installation of inbound systems, a coal stockyard as well as other civil, structural and mechanical works. NCIG took less than two years to build and now stands a state-of-the-art industrial facility that can process 30 million tonnes of coal per year.

EDC's role

EDC was sub-contracted by Theiss to be the major drafting company responsible to collaborate with Theiss engineers in both the design and planning processes of the NCIG project. EDC's contract demanded it provide the following roles, responsibilities and deliverables for the project:
• Detail design of all lifting processors for the conveyers, dump stations and buffer bin
• Design review of all detail drawings to ensure the correct material was used by the structural steel detailers
• Detail drafting services for various parts of the project and especially for the complex buffer bin
• Material take-off for all the design changes

Project outcome
The creation of the CET (NCIG) resulted in a world-leading industry facility that has enabled the vast increase of Newcastle's coal export capacity; further enhancing the capabilities of Australia's most-active deep-water port and helping it to maintain its status of No.1 coal port in the world. Its creation has since helped to increase GDP by $1.5 billion a year, increase exports by upwards of $2 billion a year, and generated 5000 jobs.