Business Chief APAC+ANZ Magazine November 2014 | Page 137

MINING the Hay Point Coal Terminal , which was originally build in the 1980s and is owned by the BHP Billiton and Mitsubishi Alliance , BMA . BMD was originally award a $ 49 million project for the reclamation contract , which included civil work for the expansion of the coal terminal footprint area . There were 10.2 hectares of land to reclaim ; the work also included developing an on-site quarry , involving excavation , processing and hauling 1.3 million tonnes of engineered fill material .
The company was then awarded an additional $ 125 million of additional scope . This included onshore civil works and general services contracts which involved concrete foundations , underground services , site facilities , maintenance and management . BMD Group was able to deliver the project in three years with 650,000 hours losttime injury ( LTI ) free with 81 percent of the workforce on the Hay Point Coal Terminal expansion project being local .
The award — the Queensland Mining Contractors Award for
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