Tetra Tech Proteus
Tanami Expansion Project – (Tanami Desert, Northern Territory, Australia)
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Tetra Tech Proteus was lead designer for the detailed engineering phase of the AUD 65 million Tanami Expansion Project, a throughput upgrade for the Newmont-owned Tanami gold mine in the Northern Territory of Australia. The objective was to increase production of the 20-year-old processing plant from 2.3 to 2.6 million tons per year and improve safety by implementing a significantly safer method for producing the mine backfill material.
The project team used OpenPlant and AECOsim Building Designer to model all aspects of the as-built plant by quickly converting existing legacy 3D models in a variety of formats together with point-cloud information. OpenPlant PID enabled quick and easy generation of all P&IDs and provided an efficient means to retain and modify the intelligence attached to the P&IDs as design changes occurred. The team used OpenPlant Modeler for the piping and AECOsim Building Designer for the structure and concrete. Cached views enabled the automatic generation of annotated plans and elevations of the plant in five hours per drawing, rather than the average 40 hours per drawing, and generated piping isometric drawings in one hour rather than three. The team used ProjectWise to share information among project disciplines, and Bentley Navigator to identify potential operational and maintenance issues.
Tetra Tech Proteus
Tanami Expansion Project – (Tanami Desert, Northern Territory, Australia)
Image courtesy of Tetra Tech Proteus
Tetra Tech Proteus was lead designer for the detailed engineering phase of the AUD 65 million Tanami Expansion Project, a throughput upgrade for the Newmont-owned Tanami gold mine in the Northern Territory of Australia. The objective was to increase production of the 20-year-old processing plant from 2.3 to 2.6 million tons per year and improve safety by implementing a significantly safer method for producing the mine backfill material.
The project team used OpenPlant and AECOsim Building Designer to model all aspects of the as-built plant by quickly converting existing legacy 3D models in a variety of formats together with point-cloud information. OpenPlant PID enabled quick and easy generation of all P&IDs and provided an efficient means to retain and modify the intelligence attached to the P&IDs as design changes occurred. The team used OpenPlant Modeler for the piping and AECOsim Building Designer for the structure and concrete. Cached views enabled the automatic generation of annotated plans and elevations of the plant in five hours per drawing, rather than the average 40 hours per drawing, and generated piping isometric drawings in one hour rather than three. The team used ProjectWise to share information among project disciplines, and Bentley Navigator to identify potential operational and maintenance issues.