HINKLEY POINT

Xacom was engaged to provide Planning and Scheduling development at Fairport Engineering for their Hinkley Point C contract. Fairport Engineering were selected to design and Manage the construction of a solution to transfer and house sand and aggregate for the Hinkley Point C concrete foundation mix.

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The solution was split into two main parts:

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• Ground storage system where sand and aggregate is transferred from a ship to shore into a ground storage system consisting of 11 separate pens.

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• Storage silo where the Ground Granulated Blast Furnace Slag is delivered by road tanker and pneumatically conveyed into the silo. The Ground Granulated Blast Furnace Slag is then pumped to 4 concrete batching plants.

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Xacom provided the following services:

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• Development of the Primavera P6 schedule in conjunction with the Engineering team

• Alignment of the schedule to NEC 3 scheduling requirements

• Incorporation of Compensation Events

• Maintenance of the programme baseline

• Forecast and Critical Path Analysis and reporting