Stockyard Hill Wind Farm Project Assignment 2022

Running Head: PROJECT EXECUTION PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT
Stockyard Hill Wind Farm Project
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Table of Contents
Background of the Case Project......................................................................................................2
Project Delivery Methods................................................................................................................3
Financial Contract Type..................................................................................................................6
Procurement Method.......................................................................................................................7
Risk Management Plan....................................................................................................................8
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................10
References......................................................................................................................................12

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Background of the Case Project
The case project chosen for this report is Stockyard Hill Wind Farm Project, a proposed
onshore wind farm in Victoria, Australia that has been initiated in 2018 and will be completed by
late 2019 or early 2020. The new wind farm is expected to generate 530MW of power that will
be enough to power 391,000 Victorian homes and also two million tonnes of CO2 will be offset.
In addition to the power production, the wind farm will also provide employment to 300 people
during the construction process and once complete, the wind farm is expected to be the largest of
its kind in the Southern Hemisphere. This project will be conducted by Goldwind Australia and
the company will work with the overall budget of A$700m for the entire project. The company
will provide engineering, procurement and construction services for this particular project as per
a standard procurement contract and following an appropriate project delivery method. In
addition, the company will also be responsible for operations and maintenance of the wind farm
for its entire service life cycle.
As per the specified technical details of the project, the wind farm will require 149
Goldwind GS140 3s turbines. Each of the turbines will have three blades and the dimensions will
include maximum diameter of 140m and the total rotor swept area will be up to 15,480m2.
Moreover, it has been specified that the operating temperature of the unit will vary between -
30oC and 40oC. In addition to Goldwind, there are other contractors who have been assigned to
take part in various aspects of the project. For the balance of plant contract, Goldwind assigned a
joint venture of WBHO Infrastructure and SNC-Lavalin. This joint venture has been assigned to
manage the procurement, engineering and construction of the entire electrical infrastructure of
the project. For supplying the towers for the windfarm, Keppel Prince Engineering has been

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awarded a contract with suitable terms and conditions. AusNet Services have also been
contracted for construction, owning and operation of transmission lines and construction and
operation of terminal station for the Stockyard Hill Wind Farm. Finally, Zinfra has been awarded
a contract for building transmission infrastructure needed for the wind farm. Considering this
factors, it is evident that this project involves a large number of contracts, each of which includes
a significant number of terms and conditions. Hence, determination and selection of a specific
type of contract is required in order to ensure the terms are followed as per the requirements. It is
also important to determine a suitable project delivery model in order to ensure the entire project
is delivered within the given parameters and deadline.
Project Delivery Methods
Project delivery method is defined a collection of processes based on which the project
owner enters into legal and financial agreements with one or more parties (i.e. contractors) for
conducting a particular project. The processes within the project delivery methods include design
construction, operations and maintenance of the structure to be built or the project to be
delivered. There are different types of project delivery methods that are generally selected based
on the type, requirement and nature of the project (Antoniou et al., 2014). This is mainly because
a specific project delivery method does not suit all types of projects and hence, selection of
delivery method of the project is as important as the development plan for the project itself.
Some of the most common project delivery methods are listed and discussed as follows.
Design-Bid-Build – Design-Bid-Build or DBB is one of the most common project
delivery methods that is used in the industry projects. This particular model creates a large gap
between design and build phase as the intermediate bidding phase in inserted in it. This particular