Brendan Boyce
Mechanical Consulting Engineer
Hello! I’m Brendan
I am a highly experienced, adaptable, and innovative Mechanical Engineer with over 24 years in the Building Services industry; specialising in mechanical and electrical building consulting engineering services.
Professional Education
University of Canterbury
- Bachelor of Engineering (Hons.) Mechanical
Relevant Project Experience
Calamvale Hotel
Wesley Street Apartment Building
Soho Apartments
Brisbane Motor Museum – Nundah
Other large-scale projects Include
Calamvale Hotel
- Replaced the existing Hotel air conditioning systems which were beyond their point of optimal performance with new systems. A system that is upgradable and energy efficient was required to meet the design brief
- Design and Documentation of mechanical services from initial concept to completion of construction
- Project managed all mechanical services
- Coordinated installation of all equipment for chiller, including pumps, expansion tank, dosing pots, controls, and control installation
- Designed, and documented through COVID period
- Designed for future expansion of the chilled water system rather than extending plant space
- Installing new air handling units but keeping the existing Hotel operational during installation
- Install new chilled water systems complete with energy efficient Chillers. Without increasing the electrical load on the building
- Install carbon dioxide sensor (CO2) sensors in the nightclub to enable the club to have high occupancy while still complying with code requirements for fresh air and significantly reducing energy consumed by the air conditioning plant
Wesley Street Apartment Building
- Design and Documentation of mechanical services from initial concept to completion of construction
- Coordinated with Architect, Fire Engineer, and Certifier to design building so that Stairwell pressurization system is not required
- Carpark exhaust and supply systems
- 5 level apartment building all with air conditioning and ventilation throughout
- Coordinated with the certifier and Architect to overcome the initial issue of requiring stairwell pressurization. This was achieved via including an additional fire exit
- Minimal space for condensers was overcome by providing a clever design of each apartment condenser to be coordinated with the façade of the building
- Client’s brief wanted a central toilet exhaust system, but I recommended that this was not the solution as this causes issues in the future re cleaning maintenance of fire dampers throughout the building, balancing of the overall system and lack of space to have a central riser through the building. A more conventional exhaust system was therefore designed and installed
- Designed bulkheads within apartments to allow multi head concealed ac units within minimal space and allow toilet exhaust and kitchen exhaust ductwork to discharge external to the building
Soho Apartments
- Providing a solution to the building where the previous installation of multiple central toilet exhaust systems did not comply with the NCC
- An alternative solution was proposed by our company and communicated and accepted by a Fire engineer
- The existing toilet exhaust systems be replaced with a higher capacity system, which will also act as a smoke exhaust system once activated via new local smoke exhaust detectors/li>
- Keeping apartment operational with current tenants
- An alternative solution was proposed by our company and communicated and accepted by a Fire engineer
- Project running through COVID shutdown periods
- No permanent access to the roof current access is through an apartment. Therefore, keeping tenants happy
- Installing new exhaust fans on the roof. Craning fans up and shutting the street down
- Installing new exhaust fan systems but also keeping the existing ductwork through the building while also keeping breakout noise to a minimum
- Engaging Fire engineers to provide an alternative design
- Project managed the mechanical services installation
- Complete operational systems. That satisfies QFES, Fire Engineer, Building Certifier
- Saving Body corporate $500,000 in builders costs if the alternative was to remove the existing ductwork and reinstall all new fire damper
Brisbane Motor Museum – Nundah
- Provided new air conditioning throughout an existing building
- Provided positive air pressure inside the car display area to prevent dust settling on the vehicles
- Using highly efficient air filters on all outside air intake systems to prevent limited outside air dust infiltrating the building. Communication with filter manufactures helped us achieve a suitable outcome on filter selection/li>
- Kitchen exhaust systems to be used in a limited ceiling space
- Installing ductwork within tight restrictive spaces. Consideration and coordination with other services was required to ensure that the equipment selected was able to fit within the areas
- Limited space on the site for external condensers
- Using VRF system throughout the building to reduce the number of external condensers. Using VRF systems, smaller indoor units were able to be used which allowed to keep the unit sizes down and therefore the ductwork sizes reduced also
- Using outside air fans to provide a positive pressure within the space. By using an Innotech controls system which allowed to control the speed of the outside air fan to achieve satisfactory air pressurization of the car display area. These would be achieved via pressure sensors within the car display area
Other large-scale projects Include
- Logan Village Hotel
- Junction Hotel
- Porters Plainland Hotel (Multiple Stages of work)
- North Lakes Specialist Medical Centre
- York Street Apartment Building
- Comslie Motel
- Stafford Tavern
- Toowoomba City Golf Club (Multiple Stages of work)
- Redlands YMCA Buildings (Two Stages of work)
- Bayne Street Apartment Building
- Alexanadra Hills Hotel
- Yarrabilba Hotel
- Carmichael College Multiple Stages of work
- Multiple Catholic Education Schools
- Multiple Early Learning Centres