Pba Projects
Project Management in Cape Town

Partnership – We take the highest care and commitment into our clients projects as their projects are our projects.

PBA undertakes the full spectrum of engineering design pursuant to the production of the most cost effective and efficient modular process plants. Group services are also offered enabling us to supply complete offerings. Our Project Managers assume final responsibility for the end product delivered to our clients through all phases of the process from concept studies, feasibilities, design, procurement and construction to commissioning and handover. They are involved from the client briefing stage and are the direct liaison between the client and EPCM team. Years of experience in the development of modular plants has taken our team to the forefront of their field and ensures that our innovative solutions are the best possible for our clients in terms of their specific brief. The experience gained over years of implementing marine diamond process plants along with modular coal and iron ore wash and DMS plants has brought our Project Management team to the forefront in the EPCM field of modular process plants. Conceptual studies are undertaken at the earliest stage of the Client/EPCM relationship, investigating the size and scope of the processing facility taking into account the life of the mine and the client’s quantitative aims and objectives. Close liaison between PBAP and the owner/operator of the mine during this phase will result in all the client’s project specific requirements being reflected in the design of the modular process plant and will avoid the necessity for major changes being made during the implementation phase. This package forms the basis of the detailed design and focuses on the technical requirements of the project as well as the estimated cost of the client’s investment. Close liaison with our clients result in cost effective solutions without compromising the efficiency of the process. Our modular design allows for an accelerated installation, commissioning and final handover process which brings the facility on line in the shortest possible time, to the benefit of the client. The client’s production requirements are interpreted from flow diagrams and form the nucleus of our electrical design. Our team has benefitted from extensive on site experience and utilises it in the electrical design of the plant. All regulations and standards governing electrical design and plant operational safety are encompassed in the design. We oversee the entire electrical fabrication, installation, testing and commissioning process prior to delivery thus ensuring that the installation on site proceeds faultlessly and that the plant can be commissioned and handed over in the shortest possible time. In order to integrate the process equipment into the overall design, our mechanical engineers conduct flow modelling exercises with a variety of equipment permutations, the outcome of which is the optimum equipment specified for the for the purpose intended. All mechanical designs are undertaken with the health and safety of operational personnel of primary concern thus ensuring compliance with all relevant safety standards. PBA Projects provides its clients with optimum turnkey solutions related to the particular site constraints, be they marine or dry land. Projects include the full spectrum from pre-assembled modular structures to complete recovery deckhouses and everything in between. Add to this our electrical capacity and we provide the full turnkey solution. Prior to delivery to site we undertake the primary commissioning of the full process plant. At our engineering workshop in Cape Town the plant is fully erected including all electrical and mechanical components and the plant is tested to ensure that all the equipment functions as planned and that the electronic instrumentation is perfectly programmed. In the PBA group we have the capacity to do testing, scale modelling and similar, to assist our clients in confirming that their chosen solution is the optimum for the project concerned. Recovery x-ray volumetric feeders and high capacity DMS feeders have been developed and improved to a point where they are viewed as being amongst the very best available worldwide.