Industrial Project Management

Prosolve Ltd provides comprehensive project management services. These services include detailed project planning, task monitoring and expediting, cost control and contract management.

Services & Capabilities

Project Planning Project goal setting and scope management Project scheduling using MS Project and Primavera Suretrak software Implementation of Work Breakdown Structures	Task Monitoring and Expediting Implementation of project tracking systems Workshop and site inspection services Job expediting
Cost Control Implementation and maintenance of cost tracking systems Identification and implementation of cost saving opportunities Reconciliation of project tracking systems with company accounting systems	Contract Management Implementation of contract documentation systems Contract administration to FIDIC, NZS 3910 Alternative Dispute Resolution

Examples of Significant Projects:

Auckland Hospital Cogeneration Project

Implementation of the Auckland City Hospital Cogeneration Project for Energen Solutions Pty Ltd. 5.4MW(e) of embedded generation in the form of one Diesel and two Gas engines.

Quench & Self-tempered bar - Pacific Steel

Installation of Quench and Self-tempered bar technology at Pacific Steel.

Martha Mine Expansion Project

Provision of Project Controls (Planning and Cost Monitoring), Martha Mine Expansion Project, Waihi.

A - widening of pit perimeter B - upgrading of crushing facilities C - widening of overland conveyor

D - expansion of process plant E - upgrade and extension of truck load out facilities F - enlargement of waste load out embankment

Kiwi Co-operative Dairies, Hawera (now Fonterra)

Numerous projects at Fonterra, Hawera site, to facilitate milk processing capacity increases from 5 ML/day to 15 ML/day. These projects included implementation of steam raising plant and steam interface for the 60 MW(e) Whareroa Cogeneration plant and the 20MW(R) Central Ammonia Refrigeration Plant. This also included design management.

Below is a reference and some background on the Kiwi Co-operative Dairies Project. It was written by Tom Gibson who was the Director for Kiwi Co-Operative Dairies Ltd 1976-1997 and Director for the New Zealand Dairy Board 1985-1997.

"I met Andrew McGregor in 1992. He was employed as a consultant engineer by Peter Walker, the Project Manager of Peter Walker Consultants, to do expansion work for Kiwi Co-operative Dairies Ltd (Kiwi).

In my role as the director of Kiwi Co-operative Dairies board involved with the site expansion projects at the Whareroa Manufacturing Plant, I was to work very closely with the Project Management Team during the time of the very rapid expansion work that followed over the next five years.

The Kiwi Co-operative Dairies site at that time, while a multi-product manufacturing plant, had a bias towards cheese and casein as their preferred products. The two existing Milk Powder plants, although having the capacity to dry whole milk, were used almost exclusively to dry skim milk.

The Kiwi board decided to manufacture whole milk powder on a major scale by building a dedicated whole milk powder plant. The Kiwi board chose the plant to install on the advice of the Project Management Team who received submissions from three competing powder dryer and evaporation companies. The successful plant supplier was the Stork Company which was represented by McClunie Birch Limited (MBL).  Over the next five years, Kiwi installed three whole milk powder dryers. All were Stork dryers purchased through MBL who also installed them.

There is no easy way to describe what exactly was achieved over that time, suffice to say the manufacturing capacity of the plant increased from 7 million litres per day to 25 million litres a day.

The philosophy of the Kiwi Co-operative Dairies board was to manufacture all milk on the one site. With the mergers that were occurring, first of all with the Okato and Alton Dairy companies, then with the Moa-Nui Dairy Company and finally with the Tui Dairy Company, pressure was placed on the Kiwi services that were needed to process the ever-increasing volumes of milk. This was the area of Andrew’s expertise. His ideas and leadership were unique. It is all very well to make decisions on the company’s objectives, but to carry them out in such tight time frames is something else.

The Energy Centre was relocated and rebuilt. The inadequate amount of wash-water was addressed by capturing the condensate from the powder dryers and using that sterile water for the process. This was a new procedure in the dairy industry, introduced thanks to Andrew’s initiatives.

The final effort was the construction of Powder Five, a 2 million litre a day drying plant. This was built to manufacture the bulk of the milk from Tui Dairy Company in Palmerston North. The Kiwi and Tui Dairy Company boards agreed to merge and recommended the merger to their suppliers. However although the planning for Powder Five had begun before the suppliers voted, the first vote in Palmerston North to merge was lost. Because the vote was needed to support the substantial financial commitment necessary for the expansion, Kiwi was forced to place the exercise on hold. The second vote was re-held on 10 October 1996 after which the green light for the project was given.

This required the rebuilding of the services reticulation system, the design, management and supervision of which was Andrew’s responsibility. As with the Powder Five dryer, this project was completed in August 1997 for the 1997/98 season.

In retrospect, this was a big gamble with the odds stacked against Kiwi finishing the projects. What made the challenge exciting was the complete reliance on the services being finished to be able to process even one litre of milk.

That few realised this challenge, is testimony to the justifiable optimism of Andrew McGregor and the confidence the Project Management Team had in him."