System Solutions Engineering

Improvements:

The service upgrades have maintained the heritage status of Union House and its unique straw and timber ceilings, and have enhanced the spaces by providing:

• Air conditioning upgrade, providing greater control, occupancy comfort and energy efficiency and replacement of the entire distribution plant
• Carbon-dioxide monitoring and controlled outdoor air introduction for improved occupant health
• Tempered outdoor air units, increasing outdoor air delivery
• Electrical infrastructure upgrade, renewing all switchboards throughout the building
• Full LED lighting upgrade, with motion sensor, dimming and occupancy monitoring
• RGBW truss lighting, accentuating the key rooms structural elements
• New amenities areas throughout the building
• Full upgrades to communications and AV systems

Services:

• AV integration
• Building Management System
• Communications
• Cool-rooms and refrigeration system integration and monitoring
• Electrical Infrastructure
• Electrical Lighting
• Electrical Power
• Fire Protection
• Hydraulic Services
• Mechanical Services water-side
• Mechanical Services air-side
• Security

Associated Project Partners:

• The University of Adelaide
• Swanbury Penglase Architects
• The National Wine Centre
• Shape Australia
• Air Con Serve
• AZZO
• BST
• Diverse Mechanical Services
• EDC Expert Group
• Pro AV
• Proficient Fire Protection
• RNW
• Urban Plumbing

To learn more about the engineering potential of your building, contact SSE on 8333 1855 or email us.

Improvements:

The service upgrades have maintained the unique aesthetic of the Wine Centre, however have enhanced the spaces by providing:

• Tuneable white lighting in key function spaces to enhance user experience during wine tastings
• RGBW coloured façade lighting off the courtyard, accentuating the building’s unique barrel-shaped roof
• Fully adjustable corridor lighting – enabling mobile and portable art displays to be highlighted
• Carbon-dioxide monitoring and controlled outdoor air introduction for improved occupant health

Services:

• AV integration
• Electrical (lighting, power & communications)
• Fire Protection
• Mechanical
• Cool-rooms and refrigeration

Associated Project Partners:

• University of Adelaide
• The National Wine Centre
• Sarah Constructions
• Air Con Serve
• O’Connors
• Niramar (SA)
• EDC Expert Group
• RNW
• AZZO

To learn more about the engineering potential of your building, contact SSE on 8333 1855 or email us.

Improvements:

The space has been fitted with high-grade finishes and service provisions, including:

• Laboratory-grade benches
• Ultra-high purity gases – oxygen, hydrogen, acetylene, nitrogen, argon, nitrous oxide, carbon dioxide
• Compressed air
• Laboratory-grade laminar diffusion
• LED lighting with occupancy sensing and CBUS control
• Eight new fume cupboards.

The mechanical services for the space are connected to the thermal plant located within the adjacent building, however the existing plant was upgraded to provide greater efficiency and capacity to service the newly created thermal network. Pipework takeoffs were also provided to enable future connection of a third adjacent building.

Services:

• AV integration
• Electrical (power & communications)
• Fire Protection
• Hydraulics
• Laboratory gases
• Mechanical

Associated Project Partners:

• Sarah Constructions
• Walter Brooke & Associates
• Watson Fitzgerald & Associates
• Air Con Serve

To learn more about the engineering potential of your building, contact SSE on 8333 1855 or email us.

Redundant lift equipment, with the exception of that housed in the overhead lift machine room, was removed, allowing for new Machine Room-less Lifts (MRL) to be installed. This equipment includes new car panels and car interior finishes, together with energy efficient variable frequency (VF) drive motors and electronic controls mounted within the existing lift shaft and new door operating equipment. Overall an energy efficiency improvement of approximately 60% is noted to be achieved with the new Variable Frequency (VF) motor drive power regeneration controls and associated lift equipment. Regeneration drives expand the efficiency of lifts by conserving energy that is wasted as heat during lifts stopping and feeding it back into the building’s electrical supply grid.

SSE were very conscious that the building housed a number of vulnerable clients and other users and developed a programme whereby two lifts were operational at all times during the upgrade. In fact, by the time two lifts were replaced, the performance exceeded that of the five collective operational lifts with breakdowns of the older lifts diminishing over the build period.

Achievements:

DHS design requirements were achieved by SSE and compared with the original installed equipment, the upgraded lift system has provided:

• Safe & Reliable lift operation
• Energy efficiency and power savings
• Passenger acceptance
• Reduced passenger waiting times for a lift
• Quiet and smooth lift ride for passenger
• Passenger acceptance

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For this, we used the DYNAMO Visual Studio to extract the required data from the model which was stored in Revit Schedule. We were able to transfer the data into Excel format which allowed us to manipulate data and transfer between programs. This process allowed engineers to automatically categorize MEP equipment by room number and names. As a result of these technological advancements, we can create a room data sheet which increases the rate and quality of work for DPTI.

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General Information:

• 216sqm floor area with capability to be divided into 4 separate quadrants with an ante room at either end.

Relevant Standards:

• AS/NZS 2243.3:2010, Section 7.3 Requirements for Plant PC2 Facilities
• DAFF QAP Criteria 6.1 Closed Quarantine Facilities for Medium Risk Nursery Stock
• Temperature controlled and monitored environment.

While the glasshouse itself and project was delivered through a design and construct model, the engineering services required a more detailed approach and so a typical design-bid-build strategy was integrated into the design and construction framework. This approach ensured the detail and quality of finish required for PC2 and QC2 certification was successfully achieved. Engineering containment facilities for pathogen control is not new to SSE. Earlier in 2015, we completed the only PC3 compliant laboratory in South Australia, designed with standards fit for the World Health Organisation.

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System Solutions Engineering designed and project-managed the refurbishment of the mechanical and thermal plant including a BMS upgrade between July 2011 and January 2012.

The building’s initial NABERS rating was below 3.0 (approximately 2.96) prior to the upgrade works taking place. As soon as the new plant was commissioned, the reduction in electrical energy was apparent. As the building’s data was collected and analysed by System Solutions Engineering, tuning strategies were introduced, continually analysed and refined over a period of two years, until the building comfort levels were optimised and the consumption of electricity and gas was honed to its optimal levels.

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The lab performs microscopy, culture, drug susceptibility testing, molecular species identification and diagnostic nucleic acid amplification tests for tuberculosis (TB) for all public hospital patients in South Australia. It is also a World Health Organisation (WHO) supranational TB reference laboratory. Furthermore the lab also provides testing of specimens for BT agents.

As part of a successful and integrated team System Solutions Engineering provided the design of the mechanical, electrical, hydraulic and fire protection services. This specialist facility included the refurbishment of existing laboratory space adjacent to an operational suite of PC2 laboratories.

Features of the services design include stable operation, monitoring and alarming of pressure differentials for the air lock and laboratory, flexible decontamination infrastructure allowing the client to select various compartments for decontamination. Successful coordination of services with the architectural and building detail ensured the required leakage rate of less than 2 L/s at 200 Pa pressure differential was achieved.

System Solutions Engineering is heavily involved in building energy efficiency upgrades, and was awarded by AIRAH, the 2011 Best Sustainable Retrofit for 19 Grenfell St.

The building, originally a NABERS 2 star building, consumed approximately 1,700,000 kWh of electricity per annum. Through the installation of a new chilled water plant, variable speed drives on the main fans and pumps, induction VAV boxes, control upgrades and installation of the Shaw Method of Air Conditioning, electrical energy consumption was reduced to approximately 750,000 kWh of electricity per annum, achieving a predicted NABERS 4 star rating and saving approximately 400 tonnes of carbon dioxide per annum. The target is to achieve NABERS 5 star energy rating once the project is finally completed.