Gudai Darri - Modular Industrial Project

Located in the Pilbara, Western Australia, Gudai-Darri is Rio Tinto’s first Greenfield mine in the region in more than a decade. Stretching across both Banjima and Yindjibarndi country, both Traditional Owners were engaged through the planning and development stages in Rio Tinto’s, most technologically advanced iron ore mine yet. Gudai-Darri features the world's first autonomous water carts, trucks, drills and trains, as well as a robotic ore sampling laboratory and solar farm. Valued at 4.3 billion dollars, Gudai-Darri has a 40-year mine life and will support thousands of jobs moving into the future.  

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SPP GROUP WA provided Hydraulic Design for all the Non Process Infrastructure on the Mine Site. The highlight was the detail design of the modular Shower Block central plant.

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Rheem Commercial was selected by SPP GROUP WA to work with Primero and Aussie Modular Solutions in providing a sustainable hot water solution to Gudai-Darri. The project required a solution for the transit shower lounge block consisting of 400 end-of-swing showers, which had a total hot water demand of 24,000 litres. 

 

Gudai-Darri, which is located in regional WA (1200km north of Perth) the plant required all the usual features including back up redundancy, energy efficiency and consideration of limited energy infrastructure. 

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The skids were expertly assembled just outside Perth Metro by AMS and Holdfast Contracting, with support from Rheem Commercial.

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The Kit 

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Male showers:

4 x 35kW Air to Water heat pump horizontal outlet

6 x 3000L SS storage tanks

6 x 30kW Commercial Electrical Heating Unit

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Female showers:

1 x 35kW Air to Water heat pump horizontal outlet stackable

2 x 35kW Air to Water heat pump horizontal outlet

3 x 3000L SS storage tanks

3 x 30kW Commercial Electrical Heating Unit

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​This project was one of a kind, so much so, its a case Study that sits proudly on the Rheem HEAT PUMP national brochure.

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