The Karumba Project

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How hard can it be to fix up an old shed?
These were my thoughts as I was briefed on the Karumba Storage Facility Refurbishment Project on my first day with international mining group, MMG. I soon realised that complexity is not just in long megaprojects such as a road tunnel or a national health system reform, which are technically difficult, have many interfaces, and huge stakeholder challenges. Complexity is not binary. It can be nestled within small projects such as this $30M refurbishment.

Characteristics of complexity include high risk, unpredictability, uncertainty, and the way to reach the destination is iteratively worked out with some flexibility.

Karumba is a remote port town located at the base of the ‘V’ part of the coast in north Queensland with a population of 600 people.
Known for fishing and barramundi, it also has a processing plant linked to the MMG mining operation at Century Mine.

You can read an article on this topic by Sebastian in the May 2024 edition of ICCPM e-Magazine, CONNECT.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Sebastian Immaraj has qualifications in civil engineering and management from University of Adelaide and University of South Australia respectively. His professional roles have been structural engineer, project engineer, project manager, and educator. He has worked in consulting, energy, resources, government, infrastructure, education, and water sectors. Projects conducted have included buildings, power, refurbishment, traffic, environmental, roads, water treatment, regional and urban rail, dams, water infrastructure, and urban development. He has worked on projects in Australia, Asia, and Africa. He has also spent eight years teaching engineering, construction management and project management at University of Melbourne. He has taught and assessed over 2,000 students. Sebastian has won Australian industry awards in engineering, project management, and in teaching. He is currently working as a senior project manager at Melbourne Water.