Hillmorton Hospital

How Protranz Saved $1M+ with 3D Soil Modelling and Smart Disposal Planning at Hillmorton Hospital

From processing of exisiting information to gathering additional information, our team demonstrated why we are trusted partners for projects requiring off-site disposal.

Smarter Soil Disposal Planning

Consent-driven environmental investigations provided a starting point—but not the full picture needed for effective soil management and disposal.

Key details relevant to earthworks were missing or unclear, leaving gaps, assumptions, and uncertainty.

We successfully:

  • Combined exisiting site data with earthworks designs to highlight areas where more information would be useful.
  • Designed and executed additional soil sampling investigations.
  • Incorperated results into a 3D model indicating different disposal facilities, which provided accuate volumes and cost predictions.
  • Uploaded the model to GPS-enabled diggers for accurate, realtime indication of different contamination areas.

 

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Proven Results and Cost Savings

  • Successfully guided 24,000 tonnes of off-site disposal, most of which was contaminated to some level.
  • Excavations accurate to +/- 30 mm with onboard GPS-alone.
  • Massively increased machine and operator efficiency with over 100 hours of machine time saved.
  • Mitigated uncertainty around disposal volumes and cost for various landfills.
  • Reduced the amount of setout and worker intervention required.

What made this project particularly successful was our ability interpret the exisiting data, apply our speacialised skills, and transform it into something more valuable from a commercial and operational perspective.

Technology-forward

On this project we championed the use of GIS systems, and GPS-enabled diggers to provide massive value. Besides the operational advantage, this also made it easy to communicate key information about soil disposal at the site to our client and other stakeholders.

Overall, Protranz took a novel approach to a complicated issue which resualted in a great outcome for the project, and the environment.

This project showcased our ability to manage every stage of complex land development projects. We started with detailed site surveying and comprehensive stormwater design and then progressed into the consent phase.

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