Mining and Metals in a Changing World  

The transition to clean energy starts beneath the surface. From lithium in EV batteries to copper in solar panels, mining provides the essential materials needed to power a more sustainable future. But navigating the pace, scale, and complexity of this shift requires a partner with both strategic vision and technical expertise.   

As the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm and a leader in sustainability, AECOM is committed to accelerating the clean energy transition. With global expertise spanning engineering and environmental solutions for the design, development, and operation of mining and mineral processing projects, we tailor our approach to each clients’ unique needs.  

We understand that environmental, social, economic, and geopolitical factors all play a critical role in shaping project timelines, costs and overall success. The resources sector is searching for new ways to meet these challenges to optimize production, reduce costs, and adopt new technologies to improve operations while managing the effects of climate change. Clients can leverage our support from the earliest stages, allowing us to collaborate on how to minimize regulatory delays and environmental compliance costs.  

Mining Services Throughout the Project Life Cycle  

For more than 120 years, AECOM professionals have served the minerals industry in planning, permitting, designing, building and supporting operations for metal/mineral processing facilities around the world.   

Our full range of services spans the entire project lifecycle — from concept to detailed design; engineering and project management for execution and commissioning phases; as well as decommissioning and closure of existing operations. The demand for fast ramp-up, production reliability and maximized returns to stakeholders must be balanced with safe and efficient closure, demolition and rehabilitation of the environment to its pre-operational state at the end of each facility’s lifecycle.

Our technical value adding services for global mining and minerals processing operations are:

Project Delivery  

We pride ourselves on consistently meeting or exceeding our clients’ technical and operational requirements while enhancing their competitive advantage. In support of AECOM’s commitment to continuous improvement of performance, we adhere to a rigorous project approach—Execution with Certainty. This creates a framework for how we deliver our work and incorporates the highest standards of business management, ethics, project execution, and safety. Execution with Certainty encompasses the policies, procedures, and values that guide every employee and project team to reinforce a consistent application of best practices.  This provides a strong foundation for project execution to fit the unique size and complexity of each project.  

Quality, Health, Safety and Environmental Management Systems 

We have a strong safety focus, proactively managing the risks associated with our work and striving for continuous improvements to our safety and quality performance.  By applying the lessons and expertise from teams across AECOM’s worldwide network, we stay at the forefront of the latest tools, technologies and management systems. Through dynamic safety risk management, supported by a strong safety culture across our worldwide operations, we maintain our reputation as innovators, educators and leaders in safety.