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Rio Tinto awards $90M accommodation construction contract

Rio Tinto has awarded a $90 million contract to build a 470-room accommodation village for its Koodaideri iron ore project in the Pilbara, Western Australia.

Rio Tinto has awarded a $90 million contract to build a 470-room accommodation village for its Koodaideri iron ore project in the Pilbara, Western Australia.

Integrated property and construction group Pindan won the contract and will design and build the village. The contract also includes delivering a kitchen and 12000-person dining hell area, gymnasium, recreation building with a café and alfresco dining space, eight laundries, an administration office and shop.

Pindan has constructed 14 accommodation villages in the Pilbara region, including Rio Tinto’s 496-room Yandi sustaining project at the Yandicoogina mine site. It has been completing contract work at the Koodaideri project since December 2018, where it built the first stage of the village.

Pindan Managing Director Tony Gerber said the group is pleased to continue to support Rio Tinto and its Koodaideri project.

“We have a long history of working with Rio Tinto and working in the Pilbara,” Gerber said.

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“We’re looking forward to partnering on this next phase of construction of the Koodaideri village.

“We expect this contract will provide 350 jobs over 12 months, which is great news for the region.”

Koodaideri will be Rio Tinto’s most technologically advanced mine and will have a capacity of 43 million tonnes of iron ore annually.

Once complete, Koodaderi will deliver a new production hub for iron ore, incorporating a processing plant and infrastructure at the site, connecting to the existing network by a 166-kilometre rail line. Production is expected to start in late 2021.

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