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their project and track every component in the process while the project management team will be able to track every man-hour spent via its proprietary Civtrac platform . “ We can find out straight away if we are on schedule or behind and control our costs that way ,” explains Tallon .
“ Nothing on the market was robust enough for us so we developed our own . It was a big factor in winning the confidence of the ship designers we are now working with . It does not guarantee that everything on your project goes well all the time but it gives you the power to know as soon as it does not and address it . If you can spot something slipping when you are at the early stages , you can generally catch it before it goes too far
The government has also announced that all future shipbuilding for defence will either be completed around Adelaide , or at Henderson as the second major shipbuilding precinct . The entire Australian submarine fleet and half its surface ships are based at the Royal Australian Navy ’ s largest fleet base , Fleet Base West , also called HMAS Stirling , on the shores of Careening Bay on Garden Island , close to Perth , so the Henderson facility is perfectly situated to serve it being only 10km away . Accordingly , Civmec is going to invest $ 80mn in building a second facility alongside its existing Henderson yard that will allow it to build ships and carry out maintenance , under cover , 24 / 7 , 365 days a year .
“ It ’ s state of the art , as good as any in the world ,”
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