Project
Hudbay Peru SAC engaged Ausenco to provide engineering, procurement, construction, and management services for the USD 1.75 billion Constancia Project. Located 4,100 meters above sea level in a remote location in the Andes, the project presented unique engineering and construction challenges that required collaboration across teams in Australia, Canada, and Peru to align existing systems, expertise, and processes and ensure the successful delivery of the project.
Solution
Using ProjectWise and AutoPLANT, Ausenco brought these disparate teams together, reducing errors and increasing the data integrity throughout the lifecycle of the project. The more efficient work processes Ausenco implemented on the Constancia Project have now been extended to all subsequent projects. With ProjectWise tracking changes on all drawings as well as the linking to other systems, Ausenco was also easily able to obtain and manage documents for regulatory and compliance requirements.
Outcome
Through ProjectWise and the shared AutoPLANT database, minimal time was spent on checking drawings and models and transferring data, enabling Ausenco engineers to spend more time focusing on other important deliverables of the project such as optimization. ProjectWise eliminated the majority of the risk associated with working across various offices and enabled Ausenco to establish consistent engineering standards across their teams.
Software
The use of ProjectWise and AutoPLANT on the Constancia Project significantly reduced the project delivery timeframe. Without ProjectWise and the shared AutoPLANT database, the logistics of sharing drawings and models across time zones and multiple locations with strict revision control would have been extremely time consuming and could have potentially impacted Ausenco’s ability to get the project completed on time and within budget.