Meeting Attendees

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Meeting Attendees The meeting attendees were either directly involved with the management of Major Capital Projects or had a role in setting standards for new asset project management. The Qantas representatives were from their Ground Support Engineering group and are involved with a wide range of improvement projects including acquisition of new assets. Their focus was “How to get the best bang for the buck” on money invested into new assets. Hunter Water is interested in a “How to do new asset projects better”. They typically write detailed specifications for new project but it is often mostly a copy of what they did last time. Hunter Water has set standards for suppliers for various equipment items but has found there are compromises involved in this. Snowy Hydro has a strong focus on achieving built-in reliability with new assets and has a strong upgrade and life extension investment program. Their existing assets are generally achieving high performance but this performance has often only been achieved over 20 years of improvement. Snowy would like to achieve this peak performance at commissioning or within 1 to 2 years.

Sydney Water historically had large engineering and projects groups who designed and installed most new assets. Their current engineering and project resources are much leaner but still have some good standards and processes in place. One of the Sydney water attendees had a specific role of coordinating the interface/ communication between maintenance and projects. They use three typical capital project types:

• Build and Operate projects where Sydney Water specifies functional requirements to meet business objective
• New asset projects involving design, supply, installation and commissioning that Sydney Water project manages (often called turnkey)
• Smaller replacement or refurbishment of existing assets run by Sydney Water

The OneSteel representative was a part of the OneSteel/WorleyParsons alliance that is focused on management of a large number capital projects for OneSteel. WorleyP have personnel permanently at OneSteel sites and integrate as a part of the local OneSteel team. WorleyParsons have some well established standards for management of new projects. The Bluescope Steel representatives were from a major energy related project (approx $1 Billion) in the Port Kembla steelworks to build 3 major boilers and 2 generators and will recover energy that is currently being waisted in existing steelmaking processes. This project is in its early stages due to be completed in 2012. Bluescope Steel has a mature process to get maintenance and operations input into major projects called MTEC (Manuals, Training, Equipment and Commissioning).