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With our Project Management capability Your Project can meet Your Expectations
Use BATEMAN to manage the conceptual development, financing, design, engineering, construction,
commissioning and commercial operation to maximise the success and profitability of your project
BATEMAN's leading-edge project-management systems ensure a high level of control over all the
stages of a project, from marketing to the hand-over of a facility to the client and beyond.
BATEMAN's experience in the management of projects to convert natural resources into
marketable products reaches back to the early years of the last century, with more than
3 000 successful projects in nearly 70 countries, often in difficult and remote terrains.BATEMAN Engineering NV is project management
At the core of BATEMAN's ability to undertake successful projects for clients wishing to convert
natural resources into marketable products is its project management capability. This capability
coordinates the company's collective conceptual development, financing, design, engineering,
construction, commissioning and commercial operation skills and focuses them to maximise
the success and profitability of a project.BATEMAN makes use of leading-edge systems to control all the stages of a project, from
marketing to the hand-over of a facility to the client and beyond. Drawing on global best
practices and its own hard-earned experience, the company has refined these systems
extensively and recently introduced several innovations which it now considers to be
leading-edge project-management tools.The BATEMAN PMO (Project-Management Overview) system governs the company's business
process. In this task-force environment, where every task force is led by a project manager,
in line with the international Project Management Institute's PMBOK (Project Management Body
of Knowledge), a high level of discipline is maintained during project proposals, pre-feasibility,
feasibility and bankable feasibility studies and the eventual execution of the project. All resources
are optimised by using the most cost-effective organisation structures and tight project controls.
Extensive use is made of earned-value principles in which task scheduling and costs are linked
and integrated to provide a meaningful understanding of the interrelationship of time and cost in
a project, so they can be closely controlled and optimised.BATEMAN's IPROM (Integrated Project Management) system covers all aspects of the project,
ensuring that the project personnel communicate effectively. IPROM is a major step toward the
productive utilisation of project manpower by integrating the entire information process by
providing for controlled entry points for data, detailed change management and the integration
of the best-of-breed software packages for process design, engineering, 3D modelling, cost
management, planning, materials control and document tracking and control. Because of
IPROM's plug-in and plug-out functionality, client requirements and preferences can
easily be accommodated.Improvements are continuously being introduced to enhance project delivery. The concept of
forming close alliances with preferred suppliers, which was pioneered in BATEMAN by its
modular-plant business line, is being extended to good effect in other areas of the business.
A considerable reduction in the overall duration of projects and more efficient and cost-effective
designs are some of the positive outcomes of the concept.An open-book approach with all stakeholders has encouraged win-win-win solutions between
client, BATEMAN and suppliers / contractors. Profit sharing between the participants and
minimising waste is negotiated to the satisfaction of all.Stakeholder management has become an important component of good project management
at BATEMAN. A good example is the new concept being explored with De Beers Consolidated
Mines in which effective teamwork between the client and contractor is promoted strongly.
The objective is to establish a long-term platform for meaningful collaboration between the
parties leading to a co-operative rather than adversarial relationship. This approach has been
adopted for the Elizabeth Bay diamond project now underway and all parties are very
enthusiastic about the outcome.The containment of the risks usually associated with natural-resource projects has been another
issue with which BATEMAN has had to deal. New risk-assessment models are regularly developed
and implemented, whereby project risks can be evaluated more accurately, particularly during the
estimation phase of projects. Cost and time overruns are minimised by timeous management
techniques such as these risk assessment models which are applied from the outset of the
project. This has enabled BATEMAN to move away from reimbursable to lump-sum contracts.
BATEMAN's long experience in the project-management business goes back to the early part
of the last century as part of the growing mining industry in South Africa. This ongoing involvement
has enabled the accumulated development and refinement of this capability to enhance the
effectiveness of project delivery and to meet new and changing market requirements.Many prominent and large projects have been completed successfully around the world.
For example, major PGM (platinum-group metals) projects include Anglo's Rasimone,
Potgietersrust and Modikwa, Impala's EPMR and UG2 and Hartley, while base-metals projects
include Skorpion (zinc), Kasese (cobalt), Bulong (nickel) and Sanyati (copper). Well known
diamond-processing facilities include Argyle, Consolidated, Jwaneng, Finsch, Venetia and Damtshaa.
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