WATCH: Project director Justin Reed provides an update on BlueScope's $1.15b blast furnace reline at Port Kembla Steelworks.
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00:00The Reliner No. 6 Blast Burners is a three-year program of works that we're undertaking here
00:21at the Hawkins Steelworks. We're currently about to embark on the 50% mark so we're 18
00:26months into the project and that really does signify the end of the removal phase of works.
00:33So at the back end of last year we removed the downcomer, the big pipe off the top of the blast
00:38furnace, so we really are coming to the end of that early works phase. The next phase of the
00:45project is a lot of the new equipment starting to arrive at site. So we are currently seeing a lot
00:51of the new parts come into our stores and we're starting to prepare for the installation of those
00:57new pieces with our local contractors. We've got about 160 people in our project team,
01:04so performing the engineering, the planning, the coordination, and then we've got 11 local
01:09construction contractors that we're working with to execute those works at site. At the moment
01:15we've got peaks of a workforce of about 250 people at site.