Mining Infrastructure
The mining industry is navigating a significant transformation, driven by global decarbonization, onshoring critical mineral dependency, and electrification efforts. These tail winds are accelerating new mine development and promoting the optimization of established facilities.
Why Project Delivery Is More Important Than Ever in Mining
Scaling your operations and project delivery to meet such transformations can be a challenge. By balancing innovative and sustainable energy with dependable project delivery, you can optimize profit potential as you navigate this transformative time.
With the world moving to secure the future of energy and as your investments grow, scaling your project delivery can be a challenge. To make your success attainable, you need to partner with someone with multidisciplinary in-house talent. As your partner, we support your success with the experience and depth of resources to deliver on the most challenging and complex projects. We provide innovative and affordable solutions throughout the project life cycle. From conception to completion — and every step in between — we are your trusted mining engineer-procure-construct (EPC) partner, supporting capital project efficiency and advancing your objectives.
Why Burns & McDonnell?
Complex mining projects require effective collaboration and reliable, innovative and cost-effective design. Based on your project’s risks, complexity, budget and schedule, we tailor an approach to meet your needs from a full range of project delivery options.
Our approach to mining projects provides advantages to your team from the outset:
- EPC/design-build. Our construction team is part of the process early and throughout your project. Single-source responsibility can deliver faster project completion, early known cost, open book management, enhanced quality and lower total cost.
- Value-added engineering design. At our 100% employee-owned firm, our people have an owner’s mindset to provide value throughout every project phase, based on your priorities and project needs.
- Cost and schedule predictability. We focus on front-end feasibility projects that result in accurate and predictable project cost estimates and schedules. We achieve under-budget and ahead-of-schedule results through solid scope definition, detailed planning and integrated execution.
- Modularization and preassembly. We have both in-house capabilities and experience with subcontractor fabrication and design. The advantages of a modular approach include safety, schedule and constructability, and we help you maximize those benefits.
- Technology-neutral stance. We provide objective recommendations focused on selecting the technologies, vendors and suppliers that will achieve your project goals.
Services for the Mining Project Life Cycle
- Studies. We have study professionals in-house to address your planning, project development and reporting requirements. Among our assessment services: pre-feasibility; feasibility; technical basis; economic basis; site evaluation; site layout; technology and contractor selection; and power, decarbonization, electrification and software impact.
- Environmental and permitting. We have in-house experience with regulatory compliance and risk assessment and management for mining sites. Our work covers air quality, geohydrologic baseline, seismic and geologic risk analysis, routing and siting, National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), wildlife, wetlands, cultural resources, noise and more. We have experience managing local, state and federal permitting, public involvement programs, land and right-of-way (ROW), environmental monitoring, erosion and sediment control, and conservation and mitigation banking.
- Detailed engineering. We handle both site expansions and greenfield development, from preliminary design through construction drawings and specification development.
- Procurement. Our in-house procurement specialists are experienced on private, public and federal projects. We complete a rigorous prequalification process for suppliers, review shop drawings and perform factory acceptance testing for equipment. We can also leverage our multibillion-dollar corporate buying power, engaging our in-house procurement specialists to guide high-quality and cost-effective purchases.
- Construction. Our construction delivery approach reduces your risk, shortens project schedules, maintains a single point of contact, taps long-standing subcontractor relationships, promotes efficient owner staffing, and establishes an environment for design and construction innovation.
- Startup and commissioning. We help confirm equipment functionality and provide confidence that the finished project matches your needs and delivers program-level uniformity and standardization.
- Facility and mine closure. As your partner, we help efficiently decommission, decontaminate, demolish and remediate obsolete facilities, managing every aspect from permitting through closure and avoiding safety risks.
Mining Assets We Design and Build
Large mining sites and programs include multiple large, complex and interconnected assets. We help you plan, design and construct them with value-added engineering, cost and schedule predictability, modularization to maximize efficiency, and technology-neutral recommendations to achieve your goals. Critical assets our team designs and builds:
- Transmission and distribution structures
- Substations
- Power generation facilities, both conventional and renewable
- Mine electrification infrastructure
- Water supply and treatment systems
- Ponds, pipelines and pump stations
- Crushing and material handling
- Process facilities
- Underground utilities, dewatering and ventilation
- Transportation, including roads, bridges, rail and ports
- Administrative and maintenance facilities
- Demolition, decommissioning and remediation operations
