I am a highly experienced, versatile Mechanical Engineer with over 25 years in the Building Services industry, specialising in mechanical and electrical building consulting engineering services.
Professional Education
- University of Canterbury Christchurch, New Zealand - Bachelor of Engineering (Hons.) Mechanical Engineering
Relevant Project Experience
Stafford Tavern
· The Stafford Tavern, a beloved North-side venue known for its cozy dining and entertainment options, underwent major upgrades and refurbishments in Stage 1. These includes the addition of a new dedicated Bar Lounge and Gaming area.
· A new gaming room was built while the existing Tavern remained operational. The new gaming area was be located where the current MSB and mechanical services condensers were, necessitating their relocation to accommodate the new build.
· The existing NBN incoming cables had to be rerouted around the new gaming room.
· The air conditioning fan coil units for the new gaming room needed to be coordinated with both the new and existing roof structures. Coordination with intricate ceiling details for LED strip lighting was also required.
· In coordination with the architect, RCA provided a scope of works that included relocating the existing MSB and mechanical condensers outside the envelope of the new build. Upon completion of the new gaming room section, a new DB room will house a new Tavern DB, and a new external MSB will be installed for the Tavern.
· A roof-mounted condenser plant area will accommodate the new gaming room AC condensers, with the existing condensers also relocated to this space.
· The new gaming room fan coil units will be placed on an internal AC platform within the new roof area over the gaming room. The supply registers for the gaming room where positioned not to cause a draft on any of the gaming locations.
· Coordination with the Architect was required to carefully locate LED strip lighting in the gaming room detailed ceilings.
Logan Village Hotel
· New 34 room Motel over two levels complete with new ground level carpark and adjoining arbour to the existing Logan Village Hotel. Mechanical
· Construct a new building with ceiling concealed ducted ac units in each suite.
· Use Panasonic VRF Heat Recovery air conditioning system. ·
Condensers located on a roof plant deck.
· Coordinating all new equipment with all other services including structure and limited space for ceiling concealed ac units. Electrical
· Coordination with other services, and ensuring that the existing transformer and existing main switchboard was capable of the new extensions to the site.
· The design team coordinated well with all services before all drawings got constructed. This allowed all services to detect and resolve any service clashes before moving forward the project moved to construction phase.
· Electrical. Communication with energex and exsiting electritcal contractors allowed the design of the electrical services to be perfromed.
St Anns Catholic Primary School Stage 4
New Block G GLA Building and Block A Extension: Block G GLA Building:
· Construct a new building with typical classrooms, similar to previous staged buildings at St Ann’s.
· Install ceiling cassette AC units connected to multiple zoned variable refrigerant air conditioning condensers (3 zones: left, central, and right).
· Use Mitsubishi Electric air conditioning units, consistent with the rest of the school.
· Install energy recovery ventilation (ERV) units to supply outside air to each classroom, with controls adjacent to AC controllers.
· Locate condensers in a lockable, enclosed area with consideration for condensate drainage, ventilation, and refrigerant charge limits.
Block A Extension:
· Design the extension similar to the previous Block A air conditioning design.
· Install central ducted AC units connected to diffusers throughout the new office space.
· Use Mitsubishi Electric air conditioning units, consistent with the rest of the school.
· Locate condensers in a lockable, enclosed area with consideration for condensate drainage, ventilation, and refrigerant charge limits.
· New Block A toilets with a new in-line fan.
· Discharge ductwork for new toilet ventilation to a roof-mounted cowl made from UV-stabilized plastic or fiberglass, fitted with bird-mesh screens”
Block G Challengers
· Coordinating all new equipment with all other services including structural beams and limited locations for tundish locations.
· As some of the rooms were quite small it was important to ensure that enough ventilation was available to the room to ensure that if refrigerant leakage did occur then the room concentration of refrigerant in that room was within allowable limits
Block A Challengers
· Coordination of new equipment with structure. And ensuring that existing equipment currently located within the envelope of the new build will be relocated.
· The design team coordinated with both the Block G and Block A buildings to detect and resolve any service clashes before moving forward the project moved to construction phase.
· For Block G, refrigerant leakage calculations were conducted for all rooms to ensure adequate ventilation, keeping refrigerant concentrations within safe limits. This was achieved through collaboration with the architect to incorporate natural ventilation openings in each room.
· In Block A, it was documented that all existing mechanical services within the new build zone were to be relocated. This involved extending and rerouting existing pipework and electrical cabling to their new locations.
TCGC Revised Café & Sports Lounge
· New Café and upgrade to the sports lounge area.
· New café includes new kitchen area with two new hoods and new equipment throughout the café area.
· Sports lounge was new ceilings carpets and internal materials.
· Design two new kitchen exhaust hoods with exhaust and supply fans for the café space and reconfigure the existing air conditioning supply and return air grilles with the sports lounge.
· New lighting and power throughout the new café and sports lounge areas. Relocation of the TAB sports media wall.
The Challenges Faced
· Coordinating the new café kitchen exhaust and supply systems with existing services within the existing ceiling space.
· Working with existing air conditioning services within the sports lounge area.
· Reusing an already installed café DB.
· Relocating the existing TAB media equipment and reconnecting back to existing comms room.
Solutions
Café
· Using Coanda kitchen exhuast hoods allowed lower air quanties to be used for the kitchen hoods tehrefore ductwork, exhaust and supply fans are lot as large.
· With RCA previoulsy having existing mechancial and electrical drawings we were able to draw on this previousl knowlwndge to allow us to coordiante locations of mechancial and electrical equipment.
· As the Sports lounge size and layout mainly remained untoched the mechanical services only required some minor relocations of diffusers and grilles. While lighting was mainly all new with pendant lighting types provided by the interior designer.
· With the coordiantion between the architect, interior designer and ourselves we were able to successfully coordiante all new lighting, power and mechnaical services in the new areas.
· New power, data and lighting was provided where required in the new café layout and connected to the excsiting café DB.