Yandicoogina (Yandi) Village is located in West Australia’s Pilbara region, 95km northwest of Newman. It is a Fly-In, Fly-Out (FIFO) village with 1,700 rooms and is home to around 600 residents working at the nearby Yandi iron ore mine. 

Yandi’s central facilities building, comprising a kitchen, dining room, reception, and retail shop, is vital to the village’s amenities and resident experience.

Sodexo delivered a solution that transformed the central facilities building, including a full architectural redesign and internal rebuild.

Other works included mould remediations and full electrical and plumbing upgrades. 

Sodexo also redesigned the kitchen, installed new front and back of house kitchen equipment, including remote connectivity and monitoring capability, and replaced furniture throughout the building.

On completion, the client received an asset designed to modern architectural standards, with safe and compliant electrical and mechanical systems.

The direct impact of this project on the residents of Yandi was immediately noticeable, with a 5% jump in resident satisfaction scores within a month of the new facility's opening.