ABOUT PROJECT EQ
A boutique provider of Mining Project Owners Team Services & Resources
Project EQ was established in 2014 in response to a growing need for competent Owners’ representation services in the mining industry.
The Founding Member of Project EQ, Jan Booyse, is an Extractive Metallurgist and Project Management Professional (PMP) with over 22 years’ experience in mine operations management, EPCM and project owners team roles. Commodity experience includes gold, diamonds, PGMs, iron ore, bauxite, tin and heavy mineral sands.
Project EQ has built its business around sustainable relationships, a flexible approach and an unwavering commitment towards value creation. As a niche service provider, our philosophy has remained to remain small and focused, flexing around our clients’ requirements.
We specialize in providing differentiated owners’ representation services tailored to the unique needs of our clients in the mining sector. With a deep understanding of the industry and a wealth of experience, we are dedicated to driving the success of mining projects through our expertise, commitment, and collaborative approach.
The Problem
Project Resourcing
Mining companies often lack the specialist skills and capacity to effectively manage capital projects. This may lead to an over-reliance on the Engineering contractor, who may have conflicting interests.
Business case Awareness
Many projects fail to clear investment hurdles due the lack of focus on cost-effective functionality and avoidance/ deferral of discretionary extras.
Core Business Focus
Project owners often attempt to resource projects from existing staff often ill-equipped for the challenges and complexities of capital project management, diluting the focus on core business.
Inflexibility
Projects are by their very nature short term endeavors, with varying resource needs through the life cycle. Owners invariably are challenged to strike the right balance due to onerous on- boarding and offloading of resources.
The Brain Drain
The mining and EPCM industries have seen a severe depletion of skills over the past 2 decades, with the exodus of skills due to emigration and retirement, not adequately offset by the next generation. The result is an increasing requirement for project owners to exercise effective assurance over their projects
The Solution
Dedicated Owners Teams
Owners’ teams bridge the gap between project owners and EPCM companies and ensure that Owners’ interests are prioritized.
End-to-end value creation
Our service offering that extends from project conceptualization to full operations, and every step in between.
Project Assurance
Specialist resources with intimate knowledge gained working for EPCM companies empower project owners to exercise critical assurance over project deliverables.
Flexibility
Just-in-time resourcing, adapting to constantly evolving resource demands and flexible onboarding and demobilization solves complex problems for mining companies in a skills-depleted environment.
Our Mission
Provide exceptional owners' representation services, driving project success and value creation in the mining industry through our expertise and client-focused approach.
Our Values
Integrity, Collaboration, and Excellence guide our actions as we deliver tailored owners' representation services in the mining industry.
Our Vision
Transforming mining projects through tailored expertise and sustainable relationships, driving long-term success for our clients and the industry.
The Clients
Project EQ has been servicing a diverse range of clients, spanning multiple commodities and continents. Our portfolio includes Junior mining companies to Majors, as well as EPCM firms.
Our Differentiators
As metallurgists we are heavily invested in ensuring the process works and the ultimate investment objective is achieved.
We have extensive experience in managing operations as clients, as well as the execution of projects as part of EPCM teams. This provides us with an unparalleled ability to provide leadership and assurance on all execution fronts.
We have a proud track record in unlocking value in projects, which is often the difference between marginal projects clearing the investment hurdles or not.
We are firm believers in effective front-end loading and a structured stage-gate approach to the development of projects. This ultimately protects shareholder value and ensures maximum project returns.
We ultimately have one goal, which is adding value to our clients. We constantly review and adapt our service offering to assist our clients’ needs.