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Professional Engineering of Essential Services

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Essential Services

Essential Services are the services essential for occupation and safety in a building such as ventilation, lighting and water services, fire protection and fire control, and emergency escape provisions.

Building owners and occupiers are responsible for ensuring the essential services to their buildings are compliant with applicable regulations and standards, and are maintained and are operating as required by applicable regulations and standards all to best practices and current expectations. In most cases this responsibility is self-regulated. Building owners and occupiers are entirely and directly responsible for the compliance, maintenance and correct operation of the essential services. Though some aspects of this responsibility are reviewed by insurance risk assessors and local government health and licensing inspectors, satisfying these entities does not necessarily guarantee full compliance and best practice.
Regulation is also administered by the legal and social justice systems where building owners and occupiers are subject to considerable risk due to injury, death, and fire damage due to inadequate or inoperable essential services and lack of record-keeping to demonstrate compliance.
Essential Services Engineering can ensure that the essential services of your buildings are fully compliant, maintained, operational and the required records a kept and updated.

PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERING CONSULTANTS

Essential Services Engineering uses the 40 years of experience in this field provided by the Practice Principal Engineer, David Robinson. David Robinson is qualified as Bachelor of Engineering with Honours from Monash University, Melbourne in 1978 and is a Member of the Institution of Engineers, Australia and Australian Institute of Refrigeration, Airconditioning and Heating. David Robinson is registered as a Building Practitioner in the fields of both Electrical and Mechanical Engineering for the states of Victoria and Queensland.
( David Robinson is also Practice Principal of our associated company Robinson Engineering Consultants engineering the Essential Services for new buildings. )

What can Essential Services Engineering do for you?

Essential Services Engineering provides a new, one-stop, complete and unique service for building owners and occupiers: review and testing for compliance of existing essential services, engineering of repairs, upgrades and efficiency enhancements, design and engineering certification, building permits, fire brigade and authority applications and approvals, repairs and upgrade works in your building and on site, completion of approvals and compliance to applicable regulations and standards and to authority requirements, and provision of ongoing maintenance, testing and record keeping to the required standards. Essential Services Engineering can provide complete responsibility for all essential services in all buildings. This is our speciality and our experience.

Of unique significance, David Robinson as Practice Principal of Essential Services Engineering, is registered with the Building Control Commission of Victoria and the Professional Engineers Of Queensland both as an Electrical Engineer and Mechanical Engineer. Engineering of Essential Services for Buildings is required to be carried out by engineers registered with the Building Control Commission for buildings in Victoria and the Board of Professional Engineers of Queensland for buildings in Queensland. Essential Services Engineering provides this responsibility and authority directly from the Practice Principal, your primary contact and can relieve you of the responsibility for the provision of the essential services in your buildings.

Essential Services Engineering provides unequalled continuity of service as we can review and report regarding Essential Services with the authority of the registration as an engineer, then carry out engineering design and documentation as a registered engineer, certify Essential Services designs as the registered engineer and finally at completion, provide completion certification as the registered engineer.

Essential Services Engineering provides complete responsibility for the provision, maintenance and compliance of all essential services for all buildings to satisfy regulatory authorities, applicable standards and community expectations. You are invited to delegate this entire onerous responsibility to Essential Services Engineering.

SERVICES PROVIDED BY ESSENTIAL SERVICES ENGINEERING

Essential Services Engineering specialises in engineering associated with compliance of Essential Services required by the Building Control Commission and the Building Code of Australia. All aspects of building services compliance together with associated works that may be required to achieve compliance can be dealt with by Essential Services Engineering. Examples of compliance engineering carried out by Essential Services Engineering are listed below:
Energy Efficiency Compliance
Review for compliance with the Efficiency Requirements of the Building Code of Australia BCA Part J Energy Efficiency and other regulatory criteria of Building Services such as:
  • Fans, Exhaust Systems and Air Movement Systems
  • Air Conditioning Systems and Mechanical Ventilation
  • Heating Hot Water and Chilling Systems
  • Control Systems
  • Artificial Lighting and External Lighting
  • Lighting Control Systems
  • Overall Energy Consumption of Buildings
  • Building Energy Efficiency Upgrades and Enhancements
Mechanical Services
  • Review of Compliance of Ventilation Systems and Smoke Control Systems
  • Review of Compliance of Cooling Towers, Chilled and Heating Water Systems
  • Upgrades of Mechanical Ventilation and Smoke Control Systems
  • Upgrades of Air Conditioning and Heating Systems
  • Replacement of Chillers, Cooling Towers and Boilers
  • Dust and Fume Control Systems
Electrical Services
  • Review of Electricity Supplies, Metering and Electrical Demand.
  • Review of Switchboard Compliance with Building Regulations
  • Review of Emergency Lighting Compliance
  • Upgrade of electricity supply. metering and reticulation
  • Upgrades of Switchboards and Controls
  • Upgrades of Lighting and Emergency Lighting
Hydraulic Services
  • Review of Adequacy of Water Supply for Fire Protection
  • Upgrades of Fire Hydrant and Sprinkler Water Supply
  • Review of Domestic Hot Water for Compliance with Building Regulations
  • Upgrades of Domestic Hot Water Systems
Fire Protection
  • Review of Compliance of Fire Hydrant and Fire Hose Reel Services
  • Review of Compliance of Fire Sprinkler and Pumping Systems
  • Review of Fire Detection and Alarm System Compliance
  • Upgrades of Fire Hydrant and Fire Hose Reel Services
  • Upgrades of Fire Sprinkler and Pumping Systems
  • Upgrades of Detection and Alarm System Compliance

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If you would like to know more about us or have any questions, please give us a call or send us an email. We can’t wait to hear from you!