The attached journal describes a national project. Based on the journal, and on your team’s understanding of the project, answer the questions below:
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a
Was it an internal or external project? Give rationale.
4
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In your opinion, was the railway approach the best approach to have been selected? Support your rationale using PV, NPV, IRR, B/C. (1 page)
25
l
Using a table / bullets, list at least 10 individual risks ranked by severity and project phase (i.e. pre-construction & post-construction). (1 page)
25
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Describe at least 3 lessons that can be learned from this project.
3
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Other Considerations
5
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Other – APA (Times New Roman, 12, double- spaced, in-text citations, grammar, reference list, etc.)
10
TOTAL
240
Side note from instructor:
1. Your response should cover between 5 pages only.
2. This research project requires you to tie together everything you have studied in this semester. This may include core project management skills, writing skills, APA formatting, meeting deadlines, etc.
3. Ensure all responses you provide (including numbers, tasks and other facts) are supported by information from the journal or provide appropriate assumptions where necessary. This journal including all other sources should be correctly referenced.
4. Use effective in-text citation to help the reader know exactly where you are picking your facts from. APA requires the use of page numbers primarily for direct quotes. However, just for this sake of this assignment, since I need to know exactly where you are picking the facts from, please use page numbers as often as you need to. If I cannot connect your rationale with the pages, I may not give the maximum points for that section.
5. You have been put in teams so you can bounce ideas off each other – no one person knows it all. This is a good opportunity to access your respective strengths and weaknesses and work together as a team.
6. If there are any questions or clarifications needed, the PM may contact me. All the best!
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Australian Journal of Civil Engineering
ISSN: 1448-8353 (Print) 2204-2245 (Online) Journal homepage: https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/tcen20
The Alice-Darwin railway: a feat of project
management
Dick Lees
To cite this article: Dick Lees (2005) The Alice-Darwin railway: a feat of project management,
Australian Journal of Civil Engineering, 2:1, 25-36, DOI: 10.1080/14488353.2005.11463916
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/14488353.2005.11463916
Published online: 22 Sep 2015.
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Week 1 "Defining Terrorism"
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5. Project managing the design and construction is outlined,
including the whole of life approach,
quality, procurement, cost control and industrial relations.
1 BACKGROUND
The 1420-kilometre Alice Springs – Darwin rail
line completes the Adelaide to Darwin Railway,
thereby connecting all mainland states with the
north of Australia and creating a ‘landbridge’ to
Asia. It is a visionary project that will open up trade
opportunities within Australia and overseas, and
foster the development of regional industries.
Asia Pacific Transport, a consortium led by Kellogg
Brown & Root Pty Ltd (KBR), succeeded in
delivering the line ahead of schedule, within budget,
and with excellent safety, industrial relations and
local industry participation records. This success
can be attributed to the consortium’s management
approach, which was characterised by excellent
planning, commitment to innovation, and building
good relations with stakeholders.
The Asia Pacific Transport Consortium delivered the
new rail line under a BOOT (build, own, operate,
transfer) contract with the AustralAsia Railway
Corporation, which represents the interests of the
Commonwealth, South Australian and Northern
Territory governments. Design and construction of
the railway was contracted by Asia Pacific Transport
to a design and construction joint venture (ADrail),
and was completed in October 2003. Operations
commenced in January 2004. FreightLink, the
6. consortium’s operating company, will manage rail
services for the first 50 years of the railway’s life.
This includes maintaining and operating the Tarcoola
– Alice Springs line and overseeing port terminal
operations at Darwin’s East Arm Port.
The rail link will enable more efficient transport of
goods between northern and southern Australia,
and by reducing the time it takes for freight to
reach Darwin, shipping to vital Asian markets will
also be more cost-effective. The completed railway
is opening up new opportunities for industries like
mining, agriculture, aquaculture and tourism.
Constructed at a total cost of more than A$1.4 billion,
this is one of the largest infrastructure developments
ever undertaken in Australia. The construction
project required 2 million sleepers (Fig 1), 8 million
sleeper clips, 2.5 million tonnes of ballast (Fig 2), 2800
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km of rail, 15 million cubic metres of earthworks (Fig
3), 100,000 m of corrugated steel pipe for culverts,
7. and material for 93 bridges, including crossings of
the Katherine and Elizabeth rivers.
The consortium members did not just have their
reputations at stake, but hundreds of millions of
dollars of their own and their investors’ money. How
Figure 1: Sleeper handling Figure 2: Ballast transport
Figure 3: Bulk earthworks
the project was managed was all-important.
Planning began well before the start of the project.
The first step was to assemble the right team, so KBR
invited the John Holland Group, Barclay Mowlem,
Macmahon Holdings and Australian Railroad Group
– all industry leaders – to join it in forming the Asia
Pacific Transport Consortium.
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2 PROJECT STRUCTURE AND FINANCING
8. Successfully completing a project like this took
more than technical expertise, more than the wealth
of experience on large-scale projects that all Asia
Pacific Transport sponsors had. It demanded their
total belief in the future of the railway, as is evidenced
by their willingness to underwrite well over half the
railway’s total cost.
KBR managed the bidding process, led negotiations
and ensured the financial support was in place. KBR
also led the design and construct joint venture, called
ADrail.
Following complex negotiations, the AustralAsia
Railway Corporation and Asia Pacific Transport
entered into a Concession Deed providing the
framework for the design, construction and operation
of the railway. This deed came into force at Financial
Close, which involved 112 different signatories
checking and signing 333 project documents.
The AustralAsia Railway Corporation provided
$480 million of funding. The remainder (about $900
million) was raised by the consortium.
As a PPP project, the Alice–Darwin Railway is
important on several levels. It has:
• allowed government to provide major
civil infrastructure with limited financial
commitment and risk;
• enabled taxpayers’ funds to be deployed
elsewhere;
• maximised industry participation;
9. • generated private-sector revenue;
• introduced commercial best practices.
It has also shown the Australian financial community
that deals of this magnitude can be done, and done
extremely well: the Alice–Darwin Railway Project
was named Global Finance’s Asia Pacific Infrastructure
Deal of the Year in 2001 and Euromoney’s PPP Deal
of the Year in 2002.
To help ensure the project’s viability, the
consortium:
• assembled a team with expertise in
operations, rail, logistics, design, construction,
maintenance and project management, with
the ability to self-perform these tasks, thus
reducing the need to use more expensive
methods of subcontracting the works;
• developed strategies for efficient and speedy
construction of the new railway, incorporating
innovative engineering and construction
solutions and logistics planning that
significantly increased the rate and reliability
of trackworks construction;
• drew on the sponsors’ collective experience
in the construction of railways in remote
locations, and experience in working with
indigenous communities and maximising local
content and labour – this in turn enabled a
reduced cost structure;
10. • negotiated to include the existing railway from
Tarcoola to Alice Springs in the project from
commencement of construction of the new line,
giving the benefit of the operational revenue to
the project finances;
• structured the rail access code to provide a
commercial framework to the consortium
and its financiers for other competitive access
seekers;
• gained support from the transport industry;
• negotiated a Concession Deed with the
AustralAsia Railway Corporation that placed
project and operational risk with the party
best able to manage risk; in this respect the
AustralAsia Railway Corporation accepted
risks associated with land title, legislative
requirements, indigenous matters and other
matters outside the control of the consortium;
• maximised the opportunities provided by the
recently completed Port of Darwin, which
has a dedicated freight terminal giving direct
access to the railway. This combination
of infrastructure enabled the consortium
to develop a business plan that combines
domestic business with international trade.
Construction risk was supported by joint and
several completion guarantees from the consortium
members’ parent companies for fixed-time, fixed-
price project delivery.
11. Having regard to the linear construction risk of the
project, liquidated damages were provided for 6%
of the construction contract value. Additionally, the
project sponsors used insurance bonding to provide
additional security support for the government
funding program, particularly over the first
24 months of construction.
2.1 Scheduling
As shown in Table 1, the time from project initiation
to project delivery was a little over six years. This
is a real achievement, considering the challenges of
this greenfield project. The construction schedule
was especially tight – just 30 months. Financial close
was achieved later than expected, which put further
pressure on the schedule.
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Table 1: Project milestones
November 1997 Submission of expression of interest to tender
for the BOOT project.
12. Approximately 26 EOIs were received by the AustralAsia
Railway
Corporation
February 1998 Shortlisting of 3 tenderers
March 1998 to March 1999 Tender submission was prepared in
this period including design and
construction; maintenance plans; business plans; financial
packaging,
equity, debt and government contribution to the project; traffic
forecasts
for domestic and international freight; financial models;
company details
in support of consortium make-up, structure and ability to
deliver;
concession deed compliance
June 1999 Asia Pacific Transport achieved preferred tenderer
status to enable
further negotiations to take place with the AustralAsia Railway
Corporation on key contracts and financial matters
November 1999 The consortium received the mandate from
governments to deliver
the project and to go forward to complete the project and
financial
documentation, finalise equity and debt provisions and achieve
contractual completion and financial close
April 2001 Financial close was achieved, enabling the design
and construction
joint venture to commence construction of the Alice Springs –
Darwin
line (and the consortium to take over operation of the existing
Tarcoola
13. – Alice Springs line)
October 2003 Design and construction of the railway and the
Darwin port was
completed and handed over to the consortium
January 2004 Accreditation was obtained, commissioning
testing of the railway
completed, rolling stock procured, access agreement prescribed
to
enable operations to commence
The contractual date for completion of the design and
construction works was 30 March 2004 to enable
operations to commence on 1 April 2004. However, there were
obvious advantages in commencing operations
early, so the start-up date was moved forward to 15 January
2004. Construction was formally completed on
31 October 2003 with the issue of the Design and Construction
Completion Certificate by the Independent
Certifier. Progress and controls are shown in Figures 4, 5, and
6.
2.2 Project management
Asia Pacific Transport let the design and construction
contract to ADrail, an unincorporated joint venture
comprising KBR, John Holland, Barclay Mowlem
and Macmahon.
All personnel who worked on the design and
construction project were either seconded by the
ADrail partners, or directly employed by ADrail.
The selection criterion for project personnel was best
candidate for the job, regardless of which company
he or she came from. The Project Management
14. Team, however, was structured to include a senior
representative of each the partners:
• Project Director: KBR
• Commercial Manager: Barclay Mowlem
• Design and Construction Manager: John
Holland
• Design Manager: KBR
• Construction Manager: Macmahon.
The Joint Venture Management Committee comprised
the CEOs of John Holland, Barclay Mowlem and
Macmahon, and KBR’s General Manager, Special
Projects. This structure helped ensure fast and
effective decision making.
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Figure 4: Track laying progress compared to baseline
Figure 5: Line of Balance construction schedule
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Additionally, each partner was called on to sponsor
aspects of the project for which it had special
expertise. This included:
• KBR: project management, cost control,
procurement, design, environmental
management
• Barclay Mowlem: trackworks (north), major
bridges
• Macmahon: earthworks, culverts, minor
bridges
• John Holland: trackworks (south).
One of the keys to the project’s success was the
consortium members’ ability to work effectively with
each other, putting aside their competitive instincts
and focusing on the same goal. Management was
open and transparent.
16. Initially there were difficulties in distilling the wishes
of individual Management Committee members.
This was overcome by appointing an independent
executive chairman, who was successfully able to
bridge the gap between the Management Committee
and the Project Management Team.
3 DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION
As well as good project management, the keys to
meeting the challenges of distance, climate, scale
and budget were simplicity of design and speed of
construction.
3.1 Design achievement
The KBR-led design team had a lead-time of just eight
weeks between financial close and the start of field
construction, including time for approvals.
The original scheduling placed various bridges on the
critical path, particularly those at the Katherine River
and the Elizabeth River estuary. The simplicity of the
design so speeded their construction that not only
was this criticality removed, but the program was
shortened. Once the designs were agreed, no changes
to detail of bridges or culverts were requested by field
staff and there were no errors requiring reworking
of documentation.
All design documentation was reviewed by the
Design Working Group, which represented the South
Australian and Northern Territory governments,
Figure 6: Example of progress chart
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AustralAsia Railway Corporation, the banks and
Asia Pacific Transport. Construction was never
held up by lack of design documentation. Design
and construction progress north of Tennant Creek
is shown in Fig 7.
3.2 Whole-of-life approach
From the beginning, the railway was designed with
operations and maintenance as key considerations
in assessing whole-of-life solutions and ensuring
value for money.
• Track design: KBR carried out computer
simulations of train operations in either
direction to confirm optimum operating speeds
related to gradient, locomotive power and
hence fuel economy for all sections of the track;
these were then used to calculate optimum
rail cant (cross slope) to minimise wear and
maintenance. The rail selection was based
on wear considerations; the rail clips were
18. designed to be removable (with special tools)
for ease of sleeper replacement as necessary.
Soft rail pads were not used because of life and
replacement issues.
• Flood management: by investing in
hydrological analysis, the consortium has
minimised a major risk – flooding and track
wash-aways – thereby substantially reducing
operating and maintenance costs.
• Access: the consortium negotiated with
AustralAsia Railway Corporation to secure a
nominal 100-metre-wide operating corridor;
this provided access and provisioning during
operation and maintenance.
As part of the process for the design and construction
of the railway, the maintenance and operations parties
were required to sign off on the documentation.
Accordingly, these parties were actively involved
in the review of the construction to ensure that
operational and maintenance parameters were
included in the final product. Again this enabled the
operator and the maintainer to accurately determine
their commitments and ensure that a ‘whole-of-life’
approach to delivery was considered in the design
and construction phase of the project.
3.3 Quality assurance
The consortium’s strategy was to achieve full
certification for the track as it was progressively built,
so that construction traffic could travel at design
speeds in order to support the very tight schedule
19. and to ensure appropriate rail working safety.
The project quality management system was
established as an intranet-based system, giving
access to all documentation via servers located at
Figure 7: Design and construction progress north from
Tennant Creek
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all sites. A comprehensive system of planned and
documented internal quality audits was established.
These included 55 internal audits, and a further 26
external audits conducted on subcontractors. Lloyd’s
Register Quality Assurance conducted a total of five
audits during the contract.
At the commencement of the project the consortium
set a nonconformance frequency rate (NFR) of 400
and a defect rate (DR) of 100, based on industry
standards. The project achieved an average monthly
NFR rate of 82.86 and a monthly DR of 2.05.
20. 3.4 Logistical planning
The consortium’s logistical strategy was a major
factor in the early completion and overall success
of the project. Using a ‘fast-tracking’ approach,
the consortium divided the planning, engineering
design and construction stages of the project into sub-
projects that could proceed simultaneously, each with
an area manager who reported to the Construction
Manager.
3.4.1 Climate
Without doubt, the biggest logistical challenge was
climate – the 1420-km rail route stretches from the
monsoonal and tropical climate of Darwin to the
relative aridity of Alice Springs. The potential for
disruption to the tight construction schedule was
high.
Rather than the more obvious solution of working
from each end, using the larger centres of Alice Springs
and Darwin as bases, the consortium established the
major construction depots at Katherine and Tennant
Creek. These towns are almost at the quarter points of
the whole project, which made them ideal locations
strategically.
This approach provided the opportunity for four
work fronts (working north and south from each
depot). In principle, three earthworks teams worked
simultaneously, which meant the northern section
was worked in the dry season, then that team moved
south during the wet season, which stretches from
December through March, sometimes later. Two
track-laying crews were deployed, each laying
21. 1.8 km a day.
At the northern end of the rail corridor, effective
construction was halted during the wet season.
The rains penetrate inland but their duration is
progressively shorter, historically interrupting
construction for approximately a month at the
southern end of the line. However, nature makes its
own decisions, and in 2001–02, the rains arrived early
in the south and there was more rain than anticipated,
requiring swift rescheduling and the redeployment
of materials, camps and labour, together with daily
reassessments of the situation. By contrast, in 2002,
the rains didn’t start until February.
3.4.2 Distance
Remoteness was also a major logistical challenge.
Temporary construction camps were located
approximately 100 km apart and had to be self-
sufficient for water (reverse osmosis), power
(generators) and sewage treatment. The camps were
moved along the four sectors, and accommodated
construction teams for earthworks, culverts and
minor bridges.
It was recognised early that sleepers would be on the
critical path, no matter how fast earthworks went,
and that tracklaying required a steady material flow.
One of the earliest moves, therefore, was to establish
sleeper factories at Katherine and Tennant Creek to
begin fabricating the more than 2 million prestressed
concrete sleepers required, as shown in Fig 8.
The rail was rolled at Whyalla, South Australia, in
22. 27.5-metre lengths and transported by train to a
siding just south of Alice Springs. From there it was
trucked to Tennant Creek or Katherine, then welded
into 375-metre lengths, which were carried by train
to the work fronts, together with a day’s supply
of sleepers. After laying, the rail was made fully
continuous by site welding, and then the clips were
fixed to complete the track laying prior to ballasting.
Likewise, the rolling stock for the make-up of the
construction trains was railed to Alice Springs then
transported to Katherine and Tennant Creek for rail
laying and ballasting.
The earth embankment was constructed from locally
available materials, and KBR designed the track bed
to take these differing materials into account. Ballast
was sourced locally near Katherine and Tennant
Creek.
KBR also considered the logistical challenges when
designing the track and other infrastructure. For
example, pre-cast concrete bridge beams, which
were made in Darwin, had to conform to road freight
limitations on weight and size. Major bridge progress
is shown in Fig 9. Culvert design allowed the metal
pipes to be spiral wound virtually on site.
The consortium subcontracted services wherever it
would be more efficient (in cost or time) to do so.
These subcontracts included ballast transport, fuel,
work trains, air travel and camp operations.
4 PROCUREMENT AND COST CONTROL
The task the procurement team faced was daunting:
sourcing the materials and services required for
23. 1420 km of rail line. These goods and services
all had to be sourced, purchased and supplied
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Figure 8: Sleeper production
Figure 9: Major bridge process
within a very short period. Accordingly, effective
procurement management played a key role in the
overall efficiency of the project and was vital to
keeping construction ahead of schedule.
The goods and services needed can be broken down
into the following main groups:
• High-cost items: this was the main
procurement task, involving around
700 packages totalling approximately
$600 million; the packages in this group
included some very large single items, for
example, the steel rails, and the sleepers and
sleeper clips for the trackworks.
24. • Goods and services required for temporary
facilities; this category included the drilling
and equipping of bores for supplying the water
needed for construction, and all the day-to-day
living facilities such as construction workers’
camps, sewage treatment and water supply.
Where possible the consortium used existing
facilities (for example hotel accommodation)
in line with its commitment to maximise local
involvement.
• Consumables: as well as purchasing the main
goods and services required for permanent
and temporary facilities, the Procurement
Team set up a field procurement group for the
purchase of consumables/expendable items;
these included spare parts for mobile and
fixed plant, fuel, fencing, flagging and signage;
more than 25,000 orders were placed for over
100,000 individual line items, valued at around
$70 million.
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• Rolling stock: the consortium contracted EDI
Rail to design, manufacture and deliver the
rolling stock, including four 4000-horsepower
Q-Class diesel electric locomotives and fifty-
five 48-foot 5-pack articulated container
flat cars; the consortium also has a 10-year
maintenance agreement with EDI to maintain
the rolling stock it supplies; Bluebird Rail
Operations is supplying and maintaining five
crew cars, and other rolling stock are leased
from Australian Railroad Group.
At the peak of the project, 2000 requisitions a month
were processed. The Procurement Team had up to
12 staff dedicated to purchasing, and a further five
who took care of subcontracts. A key measure of
the success of the procurement task was the cost of
processing the field orders: this was achieved at an
average of $50 an order.
Apart from the sheer amount of goods and services
required, there were a number of other procurement
challenges; the main ones are outlined below.
4.1 Time
It was critical to the project’s success that there be
no delay in securing the high-cost, long-lead items.
However, as noted above, financial close took longer
than anticipated. Purchase arrangements were
finalised prior to financial close, but obviously no
commitments could be made until financial close had
been achieved. The team had to keep these suppliers
interested without making any commitment that it
26. would possibly not be able to keep.
The Procurement Team was established in KBR’s
Adelaide office in early June 2000, nearly a year
before financial close was achieved. It commissioned
the survey and site investigations needed for the
design work, and procured minor materials and
services to support early works at the sleeper
factories under construction in Katherine and
Tennant Creek. It tendered as many subcontracts
as it could, and negotiated with subcontractors and
suppliers for major cost centres to the ‘letter of intent’
stage. The Procurement Team established an office
in Darwin in late March 2001. All of this preparation
meant that just six days after financial close on 20
April 2001, the team was ready to issue several key
formal commitments, valued at approximately $300
million.
By the end of July 2001, just three months after
financial close, the team had awarded a further 21
packages worth more than $1 million each and 41
packages in excess of $50,000 each. In addition, 20
new packages had been put out to tender.
4.2 Cost
Since the new line was constructed under a BOOT
contract, for the project to be viable, construction cost
had to be strictly limited. Given the stringent target
cost per kilometre, the Procurement Team was under
considerable pressure. It made sure it stayed attuned
to local and non-local pricing by constantly studying …