As part of the promenade redevelopment Kerfoot completed alongside with Cockram Construction for Randwick City Council, we were also engaged project manage and carry out all Electrical Level 1 works required to remove, relocate, replace and reinstall the upper promenade street lighting.

The project required extensive research to find long forgotten details regarding make and model of the surrounding poles.

Matching new and existing was of vital importance, as any inconsistencies in colour or shape would have stood out sharply.

Once the details were found, we tracked the manufacturer, Saferoads in Victoria, and confirmed the design had long being discontinued, Kerfoot and the Saferoads, worked closely to piece together all possible information and come up with an identical product.

The result is great, and we are happy to say that, if you go to Coogee Beach today, you would not know that some of the poles are a few months old and others are decades old.

Renato Covos was the project manager responsible for both redevelopment works as well as the level 1 works.

Kerfoot along with its level 1 partners are currently working to relocate existing overhead Ausgrid network assets underground to make way for a new development.

Kerfoot are working along William, Hunter & Blue street in north Sydney to remove 7 existing Ausgrid poles and reticulate all cabling underground. New pillars & poles will be installed to refeed all local residence and businesses with the works expected to be complete mid-March 2018.

The project will present many challenges to the team with the work being undertaken with in a main road for a local school, The conduit is also going to be installed with in rock, this means the team at Kerfoot needs to work closely with the civil crew and public to ensure the rock is removed quickly to meet programme but also undertaken safely and work within all council regulations.

Kerfoot along with its level 1 partners are currently working to install a new 1100kVA substation off the ausgrid network in North Sydney for the new Shore physical education project.

The team is installing new underground conduit to reticulate the 11kV copper cabling to the new substation. All reticulation is installed with in busy public & private roads with the excavation & trenching works to be undertaken with in rock.

The cable joints to the existing high voltage network will be completed closely with the team at Ausgrid as the joints are located next to existing 132kV transmission lines.

Kerfoot will be working closely with the school, local residences & businesses to ensure this project is completed with no disruptions on interruptions to daily operations.

 

Kerfoot along with its level 1 partners are currently working to decommission an existing 1100kVA substation from with in the school grounds. The substation removal will be coordinated with the installation of the new substation to ensure no down time to school’s operations.

The project will involve disconnecting all exiting high voltage cabling & installing pot ends on the cabling within the existing high voltage control point. Dismantling and removing the 1100kVA substation from the school’s property is a challenge but the team at Kerfoot will put a plan in place that will see this large operation undertaken with out any disruption.

The project will involve months of coordination with the School & ausgrid to ensure the project is completed safely and maintains all school operations.

Kerfoot along with its Level 1 partners undertook a major high voltage project to provide power to a new facility in Parklea.

The project included:

A new 1000kVA substation, upgrading an existing 1000kVA substations high voltage switch gear & low voltage switch gear also installing over 1 kilometre of high voltage reticulation through public & private roads to allow the installation of 22kV copper cabling.

The project presented several challenging factors for the team the Kerfoot to manage. Months of negotiating with Sydney water was undertaking to allow the high voltage reticulation to be installed through a Sydney water easement with an agreement reached and this section of the project completed extremely successfully.

Part of the high voltage reticulation was to be installed under an existing lake on the facility’s property, an underboard was completed to allow the conduit & cable to pass under this lake. The total distance of this underboard was over 100 meters and was completed in just one day so minimal disruptions to the facility’s operations occurred.

This project came with a very tight dead line and Kerfoot was able to manage all theses challenging factors to ensure the project was finished on time with power energised to the new facility on time.

This project was a huge success for all involved and has shown how the team at Kerfoot is able to tackle any challenge thrown at them through the duration of a project.

 

Kerfoot along with its Level 1 partners supplied and installed a new 400kVA substation off the Ausgrid network in Alexandria for a new city of Sydney child care facility.

The installation included new underground conduits installed within a busy private road to accommodate the new 300mm² copper triplex ring main from an existing substation over 150 meters away.

The project was not with out its challenges, the team had to contend with large amounts of ground water, existing services for all local businesses & contaminated soil.

Through careful planning & management the team at Kerfoot was able to successfully install this new substation with out any disruption to local businesses, all contaminated soil was safely remediated and removed from site complying with all site & council regulations.