Preparations for Gina Rinehart's Roy Hill iron ore project in the PIlbara are picking up pace, with Brookfield Multiplex adding a $70 million deal to its $190 million worth of building works at the mine.
Brookfield today announced that its engineering and infrastructure division had won a $70 million contract, covering design and construction of non-processing infrastructure to service the Roy Hill mine.
The facilities include a boilermaker workshop, washdown and tyre-change facilities, administration buildings and gatehouse.
Detailed project design of these facilities is expected to commence immediately and be completed by December 2014. Actual construction is dependent on Roy Hill securing final debt funding for the $10 billion project.
The new contract is in addition to the $190 million, 2000-bed workers’ village Brookfield is currently constructing at Roy Hill.
The first stage of permanent dwellings for the village is now being built, with work soon to start on recreational facilities, including tennis courts and a gymnasium.
The contract is the latest in a series of large construction and engineering deals awarded in the past few weeks at the Roy Hill mine.
Late last week contractor NRW Holdings won a $67 million contract at Roy Hill, for earthworks, piping, and drill and blast operations.
Engineering and construction group Decmil was also awarded a $71 million contract, to build port and rail facilities for the mine.
Like the Brookfield contract, these are also dependent on Roy Hill finalising its funding.
Parsons Brinckerhoff was signed as a project management consultant in early March, while global construction group Samsung C&T was appointed engineering contractor in a $US5.8 billion deal, subject to formal financing arrangements for the Roy Hill mine.
A financing package is expected to be announced in coming weeks.
First ore from Roy Hill is expected to be produced in the third quarter of 2015.