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New South Wales
EXCELLENCE AWARDS
NEW SOUTH WALES
DOMESTiC rESiDENCE SMAll CATEGOrY
Waterview Electrical Services
Backdune
Waterview Electrical was involved with this project from the design phase through to the final installation. The home features a two-story main residence and two other connected buildings. A challenge was the installation of electrical fittings on the off-form, rough concrete finishes. Cable tray and conduit were installed under custom cabinetry bases that were carefully designed to meet Australia’s electrical and communications standards.
DOMESTiC rESiDENCE lArGE CATEGOrY
Automated Innovation Guildford Assisted Living
The Guildford Assisted living complex is a new unit development for people living with a disability. Automated innovation completed the design and construct of the apartments in conjunction with the individual residents’ occupational therapists – creating tailor made systems to suit their particular needs. Automated lights, blinds, air-conditioning, doors and security with multiple interfaces (including voice control) will help residents to live more independent lives.
EMErGiNG NEW SMAll BUSiNESS CATEGOrY
Energy Culture
Sustainable Business Leadership
Energy Culture was created in 2016 on Sydney’s Northern Beaches. With five employees, Energy Culture is a sustainable electrical and solar contracting business specialising in grid connect solar, battery storage, energy monitoring, and service-based electrical. Sustainability is a key driver, along with helping educate the community and its customers on how to generate, store, use and supply their own clean and renewable energy.
EMErGiNG NEW SMAll BUSiNESS COMMENDATiON
TSJ Electrical
Business Start-up From Nothing
Tony Tripp completed his electrical apprenticeship back in 1988. A side track led to a successful corporate career, ending up as a Group Supply Chain Manager - before deciding at the age of 45 that he wanted to return to his electrical roots and start an electrical contracting business. What followed was many months of study and exams before gaining his electrical licence and starting TSJ Electrical.
WOrK HEAlTH & SAFETY BEST prACTiCE CATEGOrY
Symmetry Solar
Royal Freemasons – Coppin Suites
Completing a 56-kilowatt solar photovoltaic installation in an aged care facility during the COViD-19 pandemic, saw Symmetry Solar implement the highest levels of health and safety. protecting the residents and staff of the centre, and Symmetry’s own workers and subcontractors was paramount. infrared imaging cameras were used for spot checks of personnel, allowing the immediate detection of an elevated temperature in an onsite worker.
liGHTiNG DESiGN & iNSTAllATiON CATEGOrY
Infrastructure
NorthConnex Tunnel
Fredon were contracted to provide the electrical, communications and control systems for the 21 kilometres of tunnels that make up NorthConnex. innovative, aesthetic lighting on the tunnel walls helps keep drivers alert during their journey, and was introduced during construction as a variation. The installation features backlit silhouettes of trees along the northbound tunnel and lED lights simulating the night sky in the southbound tunnel.
iNDUSTriAl SMAll CATEGOrY
Fredon
Coil Plate Line No.2
Fredon were engaged to undertake a design verification, and complete the electrical installation works, for Bluescope’s new Coil plate Splitting line. The technically challenging project included the installation and termination of the 11 Kv high voltage supply cable, all cable reticulation and termination, building data and communications, installation of electrical equipment, overhead crane modifications, switchroom fire detection, and commissioning works with the client.
iNDUSTriAl MEDiUM CATEGOrY
Star Group
Dungog Wastewater Treatment Works
The Dungog wastewater plant project involved replacing the aging infrastructure of the 1930s era plant, with a new modern facility to cater for the town’s future. Star Group’s scope included a new main switchboard and 11 kV feeder, installation of all electrical and instrumentation assets such as electrical motors, lighting and earthing system, and local control panels, along with a programmable logic control (plC) system including the fibre communications network.
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Star Group
WestConnex M4 East
providing the electrical and communication services on the WestConnex M4 East project, meant Star’s workforce were spread across six different main sites, spanning over 6.5 kilometres. The different working environments included above ground, 25 metres underground, in restricted areas such as vent shafts, high voltage substations, portal entrances to motorways, the motorways control centre, maintenance depots, and on the exterior of two vent shafts.
ENErGY EFFiCiENCY & ENVirONMENT CATEGOrY
Brooklyn Trade Services (BTS)
Broughton Vale – Under 30 kW Stand-alone Photovoltaic Power System
BTS completed the upgrade of a 15-year-old off-grid system for this working farm. The old system was de-commissioned and palletised for shipping to an indigenous women’s shelter in Central Australia. The new installation comprised a 22-kilowatt solar system, connected to three, 8-kilowatt single-phase string inverters, connected in turn to three, 7.5-kilowatt multi-mode interactive inverters feeding a 96-kilowatt lithium-ion battery bank.
VOiCE/DATA COMMUNiCATiONS & AUDiO ViSUAl CATEGOrY
Programmed Electrical Technologies (PET)
Susan Wakil Audio Visual Project Sydney University
This new nine level health education building includes research and teaching spaces. pET installed 220 ceiling-mounted microphones, 600 ceiling speakers, purpose-built large projector cabinets, 160 interactive screens, 135 room booking panels, 44 pre-amplifiers, and 100 occupancy sensors. Each space can be operated from a single touch panel that controls the technology within the room and allows integration with a range of video-conferencing solutions.
Star Group of Companies
Newcastle Council
The state-of-the-art digital technology installed by Star Group for Newcastle Council’s new headquarters included a podcasting studio and a large interactive digital wall. The digital library on level one has been designed to convert into a Council Chamber, while the training room on level six can be used as an emergency control centre, with a full range of technology accessible via a Crestron Touch panel.
COMMErCiAl SMAll CATEGOrY
PM Electric
Goodman’s The Hayesbery
Goodman’s The Hayesbery involved the transformation of four separate heritage listed buildings into a state-of-the-art flagship office space for one of Australia’s leading real estate developers and managers. The electrical scope undertaken by pM Electric included power distribution, communications infrastructure including OM3 multi-mode fibre backbone, energy efficient lighting, security, electric vehicle charging stations, landscape lighting, a 100-kilowatt solar system, and an emergency backup generator.
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Raston Group
Unibet
As part of a worldwide group, Unibet’s office fit-out needed to meet certain design criteria. This created challenges for raston Group, with equipment and finishes needing to be sourced from Europe. raston Group completed the strip-out of existing services and the design and construct of new lighting, power and communications, while a dedicated UpS in the traders’ area ensures the company’s 24/7 operations.
COMMErCiAl MEDiUM CATEGOrY
Barnwell Cambridge
Ken Rosewall Arena at the Sydney Olympic Park Tennis Centre
Originally purpose-built for the 2000 Sydney Olympics, the Ken rosewall Arena was given a new roof in time for the inaugural 2020 Association of Tennis professionals (ATp) Cup. Barnwell Cambridge were scoped with a major electrical upgrade and the challenge of installing audio visual equipment, specialist sports lighting, cabling, and cable containment to the underside of the new rooftop, at a height of up to 23 metres above the arena.
COMMErCiAl lArGE CATEGOrY
Heyday Group
Heyday Group was engaged to design and construct the electrical services for the 14-story Westmead Hospital Central Acute Services Building - a major expansion of the Hospital precinct. Designed as a post-disaster facility through N+1 redundancy on the generators and uninterruptible power supply (UpS) infrastructure, HeyDay were faced with delivering the hospital three months earlier than scheduled due to the onset of the COViD-19 pandemic.
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Barnwell Cambridge
Over 60,000 hours were worked by Barnwell Cambridge on the three-year MlC Centre Electrical infrastructure project. With the design completed entirely in-house, a major challenge during the replacement of the six main switchboards and distribution boards, generator boards, and associated plC generator controls systems, was to not impact the normal operation of the eight levels of retail and the sixty-seven floors of commercial office space.
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Stowe Australia
The University of Sydney – Susan Wakil Health Building
The Susan Wakil Health Building is a new state-of-the-art building that houses a number of highly specialised educational spaces including lecture theatres, simulation hospital wards, medical imaging centres, laboratories, libraries, offices, a rehabilitation gym, open plan work areas, and complex climate chambers for health research. Stowe completed the full scope of electrical and communications infrastructure on this remarkable new addition to the University of Sydney.
