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Australian Capital Territory Winners
EXCELLENCE AWARDS
AUStrALIAN CApItAL terrItOrY
emerGING NeW SmALL bUSINeSS CAteGOrY
Davis Hart Electrical Solutions undertakes electrical work for a broad range of clients including health, defence, education and retail. As a newly established company with eight employees, it was identified that continuous improvement across all areas of the business would be critical to both continued growth and profitability. To ensure the business could be considered for government work, a quality management system was established and second-party accredited.
WOrK HeALtH & SAFetY beSt prACtICe CAteGOrY
Fredon (ACT) Fredon (ACT)
Fredon’s management system is credited to third-party certification approval for WHS, quality, and environmental management systems. For each of these, the delivery is the responsibility of the project team, in conjunction with Fredon’s HSEQ Manager. Working with the site teams and making improvements through internal auditing and training are crucial. A specific emphasis has been placed on building a rapport with apprentices, giving them the confidence to raise issues and ask questions.
DOmeStIC reSIDeNCe SmALL CAteGOrY
EPL Electrical
Barton Heritage Build – New Home
EPL completed the design and construct of the electrical and automation fit-out for this heritage development project. EPL prepared the electrical and lighting designs using CAD software, which proved invaluable as the complex project included a high level of automation and features such as a large in-ground pool, custom light fittings, and a solar installation to reduce electricity costs and minimise the home’s carbon footprint.
INDUStrIAL SmALL CAteGOrY
Shepherd Electrical
As a part of the replacement of two high voltage chillers with two new low voltage chillers at Canberra Hospital, Shepherd Electrical installed a new high voltage switchboard and two 750kVA transformers, which convert the two 3.3kV power supplies to 415 volts to supply the HV switchboards. Shepherd Electrical also completed the DC power to the HV switchboard and all controls. Primary and secondary injection testing, and relay programming, was then conducted in-house by Shepherd’s engineering team.
INDUStrIAL meDIUm CAteGOrY
Shepherd Electrical
CDSCC Deep Space Station 43 Power Distribution Upgrade
Shepherd Electrical carried out the high and low voltage electrical power upgrade of the Deep Space Station 43 (DSS43) Antennae at Tidbinbilla, a critical part of NASA’s global deep space network. The power upgrade to the highly specialised systems at DSS 43 was technically challenging and made particularly difficult during the COVID-19 pandemic. As the only dish in the southern hemisphere capable of sending commands to the Voyager 2 spacecraft, minimising the time the system was offline was critical.
eNerGY eFFICIeNCY & eNVIrONmeNt CAteGOrY
SolarHub Corin Dam
As part of an ongoing project to reduce bushfire risks in national parks, Evoenergy contracted SolarHub to design and install an off-grid solar and battery solution. Using a remote area power supply system for the Corin Dam’s power needs, will enable the feeder from the power grid, which runs through 20 kilometres of rugged and remote terrain, to be decommissioned. This important project shows that electricity distributors can rely on solar hybrid systems to run key remote sites.
eNerGY eFFICIeNCY & eNVIrONmeNt COmmeNDAtION
Power Protect
3MW UPS Rightsizing
This project represents the largest UPS replacement project completed by Power Protect to date. Seven ageing UPS units were replaced with six 500-kilowatt high efficiency modular UPS frames, with an initial 800-kilowatt capacity and scalable to three megawatts, helping reduce the client’s energy costs by nearly $200,000 a year. Power Protect also carried out temporary power works to ensure critical equipment remained online and was supported by UPS at all times.
LIGHtING DeSIGN & INStALLAtION CAteGOrY
Shepherd Electrical
Old Parliament House Lighting Upgrade
Old Parliament House, which opened in May 1927, is now the Museum of Australian Democracy. Internal and external LED fittings and associated cabling were installed to incorporate Dali lighting controls. Lighting control equipment in existing heritage fittings throughout the building was also replaced. A central point was created to enable control of all Dali connected lights and relays. This also allows for time automated dimming and switching, and client programmable lighting displays.
EXCELLENCE AWARDS AUStrALIAN CApItAL terrItOrY
LIGHtING DeSIGN & INStALLAtION COmmeNDAtION
Fredon (ACT)
Tuggeranong Aged Care
The state-of-the-art Tuggeranong Aged Care facility was created by re-purposing three existing commercial office buildings, and features the largest Casambi Bluetooth Lighting Control system in the southern hemisphere. Bluetooth Dimming Control is used for daylight harvesting, scene control, external lighting control, and standard apartment lighting, while a specialised dementia care ward uses Circadian Rhythm lighting. Combined with a wireless Legrand Monitoring System, controlling the lights via wired switches has almost been eliminated on the site.
VOICe/DAtA COmmUNICAtIONS & AUDIO VISUAL CAteGOrY
Intravision
Constitution Place
Working across all twelve stories of this new building with multiple major tenants, and a 130-room hotel on the lower four floors, presented Intravision with numerous challenges. Different tenants required their own specific communications fit-outs. Each fit-out had its own architect, as well as multiple workstation designs with each tenancy. Working more than 8,500 hours onsite, Intravision installed more than 3,000 copper outlets, using three different vendors depending on each client’s preference - including Siemon, Panduit and Systimax.
COmmerCIAL SmALL CAteGOrY
Next Electrical Technologies
Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health Service
The construction of this new health facility was complicated by the site containing a mix of old and new buildings. Next Electrical Technologies needed to connect power from the street to multiple buildings, integrate external lighting between buildings, meet differing electrical standards for administrative and medical areas and collaborate with multiple stakeholders. The new facility comprises two floors of medical and administrative areas, two courtyards, basement parking and an exposed plant area on the roof.
COmmerCIAL meDIUm CAteGOrY
Brooks Marchant Industries (ACT)
Australian Parliament House, Mechanical Services Switchboard Replacement Project
The project scope encompassed the replacement of the essential and non-essential power sections of thirty-two mechanical services switchboards spread throughout Parliament House. Brooks Marchant Industries worked on several switchboards during the original construction of New Parliament House and they maintain a constant site presence to this day. Several employees have been involved over the building’s life cycle, with the Site Supervisor for this project having first worked on the site as an apprentice during the building’s construction thirty years ago.
COmmerCIAL meDIUm COmmeNDAtION
Shepherd Electrical
The Canberra Hospital Ward 14A & 14B Refurbishment
The scope of works performed by Shepherd Electrical at Canberra Hospital for this refurbishment project included new switchboards with ComAP control and ATS changeover for essential and non-essential power, communications room switchboards, circuit breakers and sub-mains from the main switchboards, electrical and communications cable trays, medical panels with body protect certification for patient areas, and LED lighting with Dali controls. Shepherd Electrical introduced an online system to manage over 200 ITPs required to deliver this complex project.
COmmerCIAL LArGe CAteGOrY
Shepherd Electrical
The Electrical Main Switchboard Replacement Project for the 50-year-old Canberra Hospital required the replacement of the main switchboards in a live hospital, with minimal disruption to hospital operations. Begun as a straight replacement of the switchboards, early in Shepherd Electrical’s investigation phase, it became apparent that many of the existing sub-mains were obsolete and needed attention. Prior to each shutdown, months of planning was required to ensure there was no impact on the hospital.
COmmerCIAL LArGe COmmeNDAtION
Martin Donnelly
R5/R6 Infrastructure Upgrade
This major project upgraded the infrastructure engineering services of the R5 and R6 buildings in Russell to ensure reliable and functional support for the next twenty years. The electrical works included the successful shutdown and retrofit of thirteen Main switchboards and three UPS main distribution boards. A major challenge for Martin Donnelly was to carry out a program of work that maintained critical business continuity for the client, while upgrading main switchboards without any outages.
SpONSOr ACKNOWLeDGemeNt
We would like to formally acknowledge and thank our sponsors for their support of this year’s event and their continued support and commitment to both NECA and the electrical industry.
Sponsors:
Clipsal & Schneider
Electric Lawrence & Hanson NHP TLE Electra Cables Legend IPD ABB NECA Training and
Apprenticeships
Event Supporters:
ACT Government Training Fund Authority ACT Government Access Canberra Sarina Russo Apprenticeships
