Challenges

• Alcoa required an alliance partner to deliver ongoing EPCM services and portfolio management.
• There is a need to deliver projects that directly contribute to keeping the workplace safe, encouraging environmental initiatives, and meeting business objectives.

Solutions

• We provide a full alliance partnership, delivering EPCM and portfolio management for everything from major projects to operational performance services.
• We maintain a value register of any savings identified during the planning or execution of work, covering items within project scope and beyond.
• We provide monthly cost forecasts of capital expenditures that are 90% accurate to help optimize Alcoa cash flows.
• We provide services to four sites: three in Québec, Canada and one in Lake Charles, USA; and four other previous sites in the USA, Iceland, and Québec.

Highlights

• An average of 150 people, and as many as 200, work full time in the alliance between Hatch's Montréal office and four of Alcoa's remote operating sites.
• In 2015, capital-portfolio processes optimized front-end loading, helping Alcoa save USD 50 M in projects not aligned with its business objectives.
• In 2015, the cost-savings have reached the equivalent to 157% of our annual consulting fees
• Several-hundred projects have been completed since the alliance was created.
• Achieved Client Satisfaction level of >90% for the last 3 years