Tranex was awarded this project by Bouygues Construction following our exemplary performance on the Hamilton Solar Farm project. Tranex successfully completed both projects safely and on, or ahead of, schedule.
The Coleambally Solar Farm, developed by Neoen, consists of 3,465 Array Technologies DuraTrack® single-axis trackers and 307,098 photovoltaic modules. The project is supported by both ARENA and the New South Wales Government.
Once fully operational, the Coleambally Solar Farm will generate approximately 380,000 megawatt hours (MWh) of clean, renewable electricity fed into the national power grid each year. This represents a major contribution to Australia’s greenhouse gas emission reductions. The environmental benefit is equivalent to removing around 90,000 cars from the road or planting approximately 530,000 trees, while producing enough renewable electricity to power about 52,000 homes.
Tranex Power entered very significant planning sessions with the EPC (Bouygues Construction Australia) approx 2 months before the construction phase of the project started. From these planning sessions, it was quickly identified that the Piling Scope was where the greatest risks to the overall program lay.
From our planning sessions, our Construction Team secured additional Piling Resources, therefore mitigating risk and ensuring that this scope ran consistently ahead of schedule.
Tranex Power then defined and implemented strict SOP (Standard Operating Procedures) for installation of the Tracker and Module scopes in particular. This allowed measurement of productivity / site personnel from the SOP’s on a daily basis, to ensure that the project construction program was maintained. Also allowed labour resources to be allocated correctly and where they could be used the most effectively.
Interfaces with other trades was also considered a major construction risk, but these where professionally managed on between site teams by daily co-ordination meetings, regular communication and realistic objectives set by all parties.
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