Pueblo Viejo Development Corp.
(Barrick Gold & Gold Corp)
TRADES:
Multi-trade
DATE:
February 2011
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
The Pueblo Viejo Project is an Open pit Gold Mine located 15 km west from provincial capital of Cotui and approximately 95 km northwest of the national capital of Santo Domingo in the central part of the Dominican Republic.
The State Group Inc. and local Joint Venture partners Contratistas Civiles Y Mecanicos, S.A. (CCM) were award the Civil Contract for the Autoclave and Oxygen plant in May of 2009. The contract consisted of all earthworks, concrete foundations and slabs, grounding and under slab piping. The project completion was scheduled for the end of 2010.
Prior to Contract award the project owner suffered various engineering and procurement delays resulting in the project being 3 months behind schedule at time of award. Immediately following award of the contract State Group Inc. was tasked with developing a schedule recovery program to recover the lost time. Even the daily weather events at the mountainous location would not prevent our team from recovering the schedule. Within just 5 months following our mobilization on site the project schedule was recovered.
The partnership of Canadian management, local partners, supervision and administrative personnel, trade and equipment resources resulted in an extremely successful project. Not only is the project completion as scheduled but the quality and safety maintained on site was far above regional norms and on par with North American Standards.
For more information about State Group Inc. and its contracting services, please call 800.558.2034 or email us at info@stategroup.com
