Senate Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation Committee, , 5:19:01 to 5:23:44
Officials clarify the inclusion of Mogami class ship construction at Henderson and provide timelines for design milestones and early works.
Topics: Infrastructure, Manufacturing
Speakers: David Hanley, James Paterson, Unknown Speaker
>> Very good. Um, in your answer, you outlined facilities and infrastructure being developed for construction of hostel defense ship building Australia of the landing craft heavy and landing craft medium vessels commencing this year. Contingency docking capabilities for Australia's future conventionally armed nuclearpowered submarine fleet from the early 2030s and depo level maintenance including graving docks by the late 2030s. Um in that quan there was no mention of the Magami class. Why
>> Uh Senator that um it's an oversight. Um we will be building ship building and ship sustainment facilities for the fleet that will be in being in Western Australia. Uh that will include facilities that will support landingcraft heavy, landingcraft medium um and construction of Magami.
>> Right. Okay. So just just an oversight on the quan. Right. And so um what is the timeline for Magami class facilities to be available at Henderson?
>> So Senator, the plan is to um start construction for um the ship building and ship sustainment precinct >> in time to support landingcraft heavy and medium first. So that is beginning um later this year, early next year. Y >> um and for that will include the facilities to do consolidation if you like of the landing craft heavy. >> um those would were originally planned to be temporary facilities but now we're going to build permanent facilities. So those facilities will be able to cater for both Magami and Landingcraft Heavy.
>> Yep. So it doesn't need to be separately developed. It will be the same facilities and Magami can be constructed after landing craft heavy and craft
medium continuous naval ship building. So the idea is to dovetail one into the other. Correct Senator?
>> And we are on track for Magami to be constructed at Henderson from which
>> Beginning prototyping will begin 2029 Senator.
>> And and when will construction at Henderson begin?
>> Shortly thereafter.
>> Okay, great. Thank you. And that's on track.
>> Correct Senator.
>> Very good. Um so in that quan uh you outlined some pretty high level milestones. Is there a document that's got more detail um about that a master schedule or or similar for Henderson that sets it out in more specificity?
>> There there is a uh level zero schedule senator is what we call it which has got the major phasings. Um >> on there will be the construction of the facilities the key facilities like the construction hall by example. >> Yep. And on top of that will be u when we start construction for lencraft heavy medium um and mami
>> and can that can that document be
>> I I'll take it on notice to provide it s
um while just here while I've got you is there more detail that you can provide about the timeline of key deliverables or decision points for Anderson?
Senator I can. So um you would have seen recently around August time frame um Minister Miles announced the sighting precinct. Yep. Um which was the area the spatial area where the um precinct will be for both ship building ship sustainment and nuclear power sustainment. >> Um the task from now through to the end of next year is to do what's called concept design. >> Um that will uh be the 30% design milestone. um for the area. Um we're doing that in packages of work based on the priority of work. So you can imagine some of the key milestones like the contingency dock for nuclear power sustainment is the first work package we're doing right now. Um and then we'll do a phased approach to that through to the end of next year and then we'll have our 30% design.
>> So the 30% design will be available when?
>> At the end of next year.
>> End of next year. Okay. Thank you. And
at that time we will then start turning soil in earnest for the majority of the facilities that we plan to have on on the precinct.
>> What's the next uh design milestone after 30% design?
>> Uh it's really a construction milestones from there on Senator. So we we've we will refine the design of course as we go forward but we're into construction. So we'll do early works starting next year. So things like moving breakwateraters u dredging where we need to do dredging um that'll be like mid 2027 through to 2028. Then we'll start um concreting and digging up the sites and reclaiming land where we need to reclaim land. So that will proceed 28 29 etc etc. So there's it's more of a construction schedule that takes over from the design schedule just like any other project would senator.
>> Okay. All right. Well look forward to what you can provide on on notice on that.
>> We'll do.