majorprojects

Major Projects


Listed below are Major Projects recently completed or rewared to McCosker. For a complete work history and capabilitiy statement please contact our Business Development team.




Queensland Alumina Limited
Civil Maintenance Contract
McCosker ensure the availability of all resources required for the QAL operation plants ongoing civil and building maintenance works. A permanent onsite team deliver all facets of the operation plants maintenance as well as occurrences outside of normal operations.




Boyne Smelters Development
Site Preperation, Earthworks and Engineered Fill
SNC Lavalin and SKM joint venture for Boyne Smelter Development appointed McCosker as head contractor for site preparation. The scope of work involves the set-up of contractor facilities for upgrade works on the BSL plant and Carbon bake 4. Major earthworks include the importation of 25,000m³ of road construction materials and structural concreting.




Boyne Smelters Limited
Civil Maintenance Contract
McCosker are engaged to provide comprehensive civil maintenance services to Rio Tinto's BSL operation. McCosker have placed a permanent workforce onsite, integrated with BSL's operations team, to ensure maintenance is carried out strictly inline with all operational, safety and environmental procedures.

 



Dalrymple Bay Expansion DCBT XT Project
Civil Construction and Structural Concrete
This expansion project is a major upgrade to the coal handling facilities at the Dalrymple bay coal handling facility. The scope of work completed included detailed earthworks, structural concrete, suspended concrete and installation of services for the conveyor upgrade and associated works.

 



NeWeipa Project
Joint Venture Civil and Earthworks
Bechtel on behalf of Comalco engaged McCosker and Theiss in a JV partnership for the expansion of their Bauxite operations in Weipa, North Queensland. The scope of the work included 150,000m3 of earthworks, 2km of pipe works, dams, RE walls, 4000m3 of concrete. From the $23m project value McCosker performed an equal 50% of the works.



 

Y3 Expansion Orica AN & CBL Upgrade
Civil Expansion Works
Worley Pty Ltd on behalf of Orica Australia engaged McCosker to upgrade and expansion of their ammonium nitrate plant together with the infrastructure required to support this plant. A major portion of the works included construction of several fluid retention structures such as cooling towers, acid retaining slabs and bunds, lift wells, and oil separators. 3000m3 of concrete was poured in a tight 8 month schedule which included significant changes to the project design and scope of work. McCosker were requested to complete several more packages than initially tendered.



RG Tanna Expansion Civil Works
Port Facility Expansion Works
McCosker were engaged by the Central Queensland Port Authority to increase their capacity from 40Mt pa to 65Mt pa. Work scope included drainage, roadwork, structural footings, clean cut chutes, conveyor foundations and footings.

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