Infrastructure
NDY offer a comprehensive range of consultancy services in all technical disciplines associated with engineering services installed in infrastructure and industrial projects.
In addition to our key engineers, who are acknowledged to be among the most experienced in their field of practice in Australia, we have access to internationally recognised senior engineers in a referral and "best practice" role in all disciplines.
Expertise is available to address:
Port facilities are dependent on their services infrastructure in order to avoid costly delays and bottlenecks. In today's competitive marketplace, port authorities need to provide their customers with world-class service.
NDY is able to provide Port Facility operators/owners with expert engineering services in relation to the following key infrastructure systems:
- Power Infrastructure
- Communications/IT
- Security
- SCADA / Automation
- Life Safety - Fire Services
- Lighting
- Energy Management
- Water Supply
- Waste Water & Storm Water.
NDY can provide our clients with a full spectrum of services including feasibility studies, detail design and documentation as well as project management throughout all phases of a project. We pride ourselves in taking innovative approaches to delivering projects on time and on budget.
NDY’s Power Group offers expertise in the field of power engineering, with extensive and holistic experience in engineering and asset management of power system assets in the Utility sector.
These skills are oriented to serve the power generation, transmission and distribution asset owners.
With an extensive knowledge of the technology and specific product solutions available in the market, we can provide the most cost effective and efficient solutions that deliver maximum value and returns over the lifetime of our client's assets.
NDY’s Power Group provides a range of services in the area of strategic and operational asset management and detailed engineering. A summary of services that we offer to clients in the power sector include:
Power Engineering
- Development and maintenance of design, engineering, procurement and construction standards
- Options analysis, justification and business cases
- Scoping, tendering, tender reviews and selection reports for design and construct jobs
- Conceptual and detailed design of power systems including substation primary and secondary systems
- Power system analysis and studies
- Protection coordination studies and reviews
- Interface designs
- Balance of plant design
- Quality assurance systems and audits
- Development and review of Inspection and Test plans
Asset Management
- Strategic asset management framework including asset management policies, procedures, standards and processes
- Asset management plans for entire power system and individual asset life cycle plans including development, refurbishment and replacement plans
- Maintenance standards and procedures
- Establishing service level agreements with customers and contractors
- Performance monitoring framework and systems including benchmarking
- Participation in regulatory applications and reviews
- Asset management audits
- Risk management systems
- Asset Management Information Systems
- Establishment of project and program management systems and processes
- Advice on regulatory environments and negotiations with regulatory authorities
- Electricity generation, distribution and transmission license applications.
NDY is conscious of the drivers for each client group and therefore focus on ensuring its services are adopted to their needs.
NDY’s Power Group is committed to delivering high quality services focused to individual clients business drivers and providing them with solutions that deliver enhanced cost and technical (service) performance while mitigating the business risks to acceptable levels.
NDY recognises that the engineering and asset management market is overstretched and under resourced.
With the exceptional in-house skills and expertise within NDY and our ability to adapt to individual client needs, the Power Group is well positioned to provide an exceptionally high level of service.
NDY can address the full range of services associated with underground railway facilities: power, communications, fire, environment and ventilation.
Fire and life safety, power systems reliability, and communications adequacy and reliability are the key issues to be addressed.
Fire and life safety issues have assumed a high level of importance. Fire services and associated mechanical and electrical services address situations of low probability occurrence but high-risk consequence if an event occurs.
Risk evaluation and fire and life safety must consider a wide spectrum of issues including rolling stock, operations and procedures, human factors, fire prevention, containment, detection and suppression measures, smoke control, monitoring and alarms, evacuation procedures and emergency services procedures.
Engineering evaluation is of major importance in considering the issues and determining an appropriate scheme for implementation. Sophisticated simulation and computation programs are now available to assist in the engineering evaluation process.
Rigorous analysis of cost, benefit, risk and human interface needs to be applied to develop scheme implementation policy, criteria of performance and outcomes and to establish appropriate and acceptable design criteria for all systems and components.
NDY can address the full range of services associated with road systems and vehicle tunnels: power, communications, fire, environment and ventilation.
Fire and life safety, lighting for driving safety and environment quality control are the key issues to be addressed.
Detailed engineering evaluation of tunnel ventilation and external emissions have become of increasing significance, as internal air quality and visibility goals and external environmental consideration become more onerous.
Major tunnel fires have been rare occurrences, however, the potential for entrapment and injury for large numbers of people requires special consideration.
Risk evaluation and an effective program for fire and life safety depends on the coordinated interaction of various services. These services include detection, alarm, incident location, communication, smoke control (ventilation), fire suppression, evacuation and electrical power supplies.
NDY can address the full range of services associated with water and waste
water plants - power, controls, communications, fire, environment and ventilation.
Water treatment/processing plants - whether for potable/clean water supply
and/or purification, or for trade waste/sewerage - are required to provide a
very high level of availability, reliability and serviceability, over a long
period of plant operating life.
Redundancy in provision of equipment items is often required to achieve these
criteria.
Understanding the Project Needs
There are issues critical to most infrastructure project engineering services that must be addressed in addition to conventional design issues:
- Reliability Criteria
- Performance Criteria
- Environment Control
- Technology Change within system life
- Occupational Health and Safety, Fire and Life safety
- Control, Monitoring and Alarms
- Emergency Services Procedures
Significant infrastructure projects undertaken by NDY include:
- Brisbane Water - Strategic Security Plan
- Optus Communications, Telstra, Orange, Comindico and others - major telecom base stations facilities
- Qantas Heavy Maintenance Hangar - Brisbane - complex industrial services in hazardous zone areas with critical process requirements and fire and life safety and life support
- Qantas computing centre upgrade - Sydney
- Australian Marine Complex - Perth
- Curtin University HV upgrade - Perth
- Scoping of Bentley and Henley Brook zone substations - Western Power Networks - Perth
- Specification for 132KV, +200MVAR/-100MVAR, Static VAR Compensator for the Perth metro area - Western Power Networks
- Scoping of the Asset Management Information System framework for Transend Ltd
Rail and Road System, Tunnels and Underground Stations:
In the field of rail system and vehicle tunnels, NDY have had a major involvement in a number of significant projects:
- M4 Vehicle Tunnel - Sydney - (Feasibility design)
- Energy Australia Cable Tunnel - Sydney
- Transgrid Cable Tunnel - Sydney - (Tender design)
- Sydney Cross City Tunnel (Preliminary design)
- Sydney Cross City Tunnel (RTA technical review )
- Myer Centre Bus Station - Brisbane - (Concept design)
- Southbank Bus Tunnel - Brisbane
- Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre Services Road / Tunnel
- Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre Railway Tunnel
- Subiaco Railway Tunnel and Station - Perth
- Various road works services upgrading
Water Technology:
- The Water factory Sydney (Tender design)
- General drainage and sewer systems
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