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REVIEW Issue 7, November 2000 NILSEN - ELECTRICAL EXCELLENCE f o r E x c e l l e n c e R e c o g n i s e d f o r E x c e l l e n c e R e c o g n i s e d
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R E V I E WIssue 7, November 2000

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The financial year 1999/2000 produceda mixture of results for the group. We have continued the expansion ofour Contracting and associated serviceoperations to the stage where they nowencompass each of the mainland Statesin Australia. They provide a broad and expanding range of activities andservices from the various locations to awidening customer base. A significantexpansion in switchboard manufacturehas taken place, particularly in Victoria, and we recently commencedthe maintenance contract with VicRoadsfor all the Melbourne metropolitan areatraffic signals.

The continuation of very good resultsfrom our contracting businesses inSouth Australia and West Australiaand a marked improvement in theVictorian operations were, however,offset by the difficult conditions for ourmetering business and the completion of a Thailand installation project uponwhich the Group made a large loss.

Both of the problem areas have beenaddressed and specific actions havealready been taken on each of them, but they adversely impacted upon what

would otherwise have been a year ofcontinuing growth and improvedperformance from all the other divisions.

The metering business has beenrestructured, through a transfer of Sales and Administration to Nilsen

Technologies, and a reduction in costsin Engineering and Manufacturing. Thetransfer of Sales to Nilsen Technologieswill provide significant synergies for bothElectronics and Nilsen Technologies, andthe leaner cost structure is more suited to

the current depressed market.

The importing and distributionbusiness of Nilsen Technologies hasbenefited from a successful growth inmarket share for our IMV range ofUninterruptible Power Supplies, aswell as gaining the full year effectfrom the change to its cost baseduring 1999. Nilsen Technologiesnow provides local support for themarketing and distribution of theGroup’s range of meters and associatedequipment from its offices in eachcapital city and in New Zealand, aservice that we expect will providegreater benefits and improved access to our customers outside Victoria.

The Group’s main revenue basecontinues to be the operations of itsContracting and associated servicesbusiness, which is now well placed to benefit from a range of activitiesacross Australia. We also expect thatthe other Divisions will continue toimprove in the current financial year, to supplement the ongoing strengths theGroup can provide to its all customers,wherever they are located.

J NilsenChairman

A WORD FROM THE CHAIRMAN

PROTECTION COVERED, EVEN IN THE AIRA comprehensive and up to daterange of Fire Protection products and services to protectyour facility, regardlessof what its needs are, inour offer. This includesIntelligent FireDetection, ConventionalFire Detection, Air Sampling,Emergency Warning and Intercommunication and Fire Suppression.Ongoing maintenance, Fire Safetyawareness training and Evacuationtraining are also part of our services.

This enables our customers and theiremployees to be educated on fire

fighting equipment, fire detection and the emergency evacuation procedures. This results in a safer workplace.Our Fire Protection Expertise includes:

• Major shopping centres.

• High rise buildings.

• Healthcare buildings andnursing homes.

• Power generation plants.

• 747 mock-up aircraft.

• Manufacturing plants.

Smoke sampling system and carbonmonoxide detection installedthroughout a 747 mock-up aircraft.

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NILSEN BURNS MIDNIGHT OIL FOR PASMINCONilsen Engineering Services ability torespond to a crisis were once againtested recently by the unexpectedarrival in our workshop of a GEC type OLX oil filled circuit breakerbelonging to Pasminco, at about7.00pm on Friday the 28th April.

While this in itself is not an unusualoccurrence, the fact that we wererequired to completely overhaul thecircuit breaker and have it back onsite ready to energise by Sunday,meant that some long nights in the workshop were required.

After already working a full day ourtechnicians Eric Wallace and MarkJones put in a great effort and a verylate Friday night to strip down thebreaker and remove the maincontacts, which were badly pitted andrequired refacing and resilvering. The resilvering was carried out onSaturday and after completing theirscheduled work on Saturday the boyswere once again in the workshop toreassemble and test the breakerwhich was dispatched from our worksat 10.30pm on Saturday night in timeto achieve our customer’s deadline.

Nilsen Engineering Services team onceagain took on the challenge, and witha great effort from our Engineering

Services team were able to meetPasminco’s clients expectations for a major rebuild of a High Voltage switch overnight.

Nilsen Engineering Services are alsocurrently working on this site to installa new 11-panel High VoltageSwitchboard in the Blast FurnaceSubstation. In addition to installing andcommissioning the new switchboard,we will also be relocating the existinghigh voltage cables from the existingswitchboards to the new switchboardand a refurbishment of the substation

to meet current electrical standards.Once again the co-operation betweenEngineering Services and ContractingDivisions made it possible to providethe specialists skills for all aspects ofthis job to be achieved within theshutdown timeframe.

In July, Mr Peter Vandenheuvel wasappointed a director of Oliver J NilsenAustralia Ltd. Peter has been in controlof the very successful South AustralianDivision prior to his appointment as

Group General Manager, ContactingGroup in which role he has executiveresponsibility for the majority of theGroup’s business.

PETER VANDENHEUVEL APPOINTED A DIRECTOR

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NILSEN RESPONDS FAST TO CABLE BLASTNilsen Engineering Services were recently

called upon by Santos Ltd to rebuild a

Reyrolle type ROK 11KV Ring Main

switch, from their Moomba gas field

operations, which had been damaged by a

cable blowout. The switch arrived in our

workshop in pieces, several of which had

to be remade due to severe rust corrosion.

An inspection of the damaged cableand switch was carried out in NilsenEngineering Services workshop withMr Mark Noack of Santos Ltd and Mr David Reich of Gilbert LodgeAustralia Ltd, to ensure that anyrepairs carried out would avoid arecurrence of the problem.

By utilising the resources of ourEngineering Services team and the Switchboard Divisions metalfabrication section we were able totake this work on and complete itwithin the tight time frame required.

The switch required new cable boxesto be manufactured, and due tosevere corrosion of the HV bushingmounts on the main tank a section ofthe tank had to be cut out and a newsection welded in. Silica Gel breatherunits were also added to the cable

boxes and main tank breather toreduce the effect of condensationfrom moisture caused by the severetemperature variances that occur at Moomba.

At the time the Engineering Servicesteam was heavily committed onseveral major plant shutdowns forother customers. With a team effort,in particular some late night shiftsby Mark Dittmar after completinghis normal day shift, the switch wascompletely stripped, repaired,repainted and reassembled with new and refurbished components and shipped to site to meet Santos’ requirements.

In addition to this NilsenEngineering Serviceswere then requested tomuster a team to followthe switch to site and re-install it. This requiredin line jointing and re-termination of theexisting 11KV ring mainpaper insulated lead-armoured cables andreplacement of the 11KVfeeder to the adjacent transformer.

Once again the significant resourcesof Nilsen Electric were utilised withPhil Mellow of our ContractingDivision and Eric Wallace fromEngineering Services rushing to siteto achieve our customers needs.Whilst on site for this installationwork Eric and Phil also serviced andrepaired two other similar units againhighlighting Nilsen Electric’s abilityto be flexible and responsive to ourcustomers needs.

A number of Nilsen W.A. peoplegained some valuable experience infire training recently, undertaking acourse in selecting and using portablefire fighting equipment.

Leanne Jamieson, W.A. Safety &Health Co-Ordinator organised thecourse in conjunction with JohnFranklin, who recently joined Nilsenas Fire Training Co-Ordinator.

The demonstration, started with a briefintroduction followed by a videopresentation and instruction on thecharacteristics of fire, selection ofequipment, it’s use and limitations etc.

Each person then had the opportunityto put theory into practice and putout a range of fires using a selectionof fire extinguishers and a fireblanket, on Fire Services new

training, purpose designed firedemonstration unit.

Everyone gained valuable knowledgeand will now be more confident inhandling the equipment. This wasconsidered to be important aselectrical hazards and flammablematerials which are sometimesrequired, make for a volatile mixture.

IN FIRE, WE PRACTICE WHAT WE PREACH

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The new Fire Demonstration Unitallows the W.A. Fire ServicesDivision to attend a customer’s siteand conduct this type of training, in a safer more environmentallyefficient way, to great effect on all types of fire situations. Nilsen Fire Services is currently oneof only two training organisationsusing this technology in W.A. todemonstrate fire extinguisher training.

The development of thedemonstration unit was a FireServices initiative. It is proving to be a very useful addition to itscapabilities in fire safety and training.

ELECTRICITY METERING FITS HAND IN GLOVE ATNILSEN TECHNOLOGIESAt Nilsen Technologies we spendall of our efforts on marketing,selling and supporting electricaland electronic test andmeasurement instrumentation. So, why not electricity meters?Why not, indeed, and it was alogical step for Nilsen IndustrialElectronics and Nilsen Technologiesto amalgamate the sales andmarketing of electricity meters with the instrumentation business.

The transfer of the sales andmarketing responsibility, leavesNilsen Industrial Electronics free toconcentrate its efforts on productdesign, and manufacturing. The experts at the job of bringingthe product to Australia’selectricity distribution authoritiesand companies have now set uptheir desks at Nilsen Technologiesin Collingwood. The engineeringand manufacturing operationsremain in Heidelberg. The changeshave all happened smoothly, andnow the sales process for the Nilsensmart electrical energy meters hasacquired a new synergy by virtue

of Nilsen Technologies’ welldeveloped sales network aroundAustralia. It is also of obviousadvantage to the users of Nilsenmeters to have a ‘local ear to bend’,when necessary.

Competitors to Nilsen electricitymeters, being competitors, maywell try to interpret the changes inthe organisation of the two Nilsencompanies with a negative slant.There, is, however, every reason for them to fear our latest moves,because we have, in actual factenhanced our competitive position:

• We sell Australia’s smartestmetering systems

• We have an active ongoingproduct development program

• We are now Australia-wide; and on the ground

So what’s ahead? Obviously a busytime, as we will be flying aroundAustralia and New Zealand to meetcustomers and to explain thebenefits of the amalgamation. This is only an initial phase, and

necessary as Nilsen Technologieswants to bring its new role in salesand support directly to customers.Generally speaking, thoughbusiness activity for us shouldincrease by virtue of the January2001 full domestic contestabilitytimeline approaching.

Our range of Nilsen 2600e meterswith their capacity for remotereadout and control via the publicswitched telephone network,memory to store up to 440 days of 30 minute interval demandinformation and ability to operatewith eight distinct time of use tariffstructures, is ideally tailored tosmall as well as large consumers.

We are continuing with a vigorousdevelopment program, and over thenext six months or so, it is going tobe very much a "watch this space"scenario with a some exciting newproducts being launched!

Bob Harris

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Global carrier PrimusTelecommunications Pty Ltd haslaunched its next assault on theAustralian market, with its recentlycompleted "Melbourne Exchange"expanding its nationwide datanetwork that locks it in battle withboth international supercarriers rivalsand the country's leading telcos.

The new exchange is designed toserve the ever expanding businesscommunity in key capital citieswhere the demand is high fornetwork services capable of handlingincreasingly heavy data traffic.

Primus will connect this facility andsimilar other facilities in other capitalcities and regions to the company'sworld-wide fibre-optic networks.

Primus as Nilsen discovered are nodifferent to other telcos, in that theywant their "Exchange" built

yesterday. So after discussions with keypersonnel from Primus, Nilsen Electricand Nilsen Technologies, Nilsen wereable to agree on a proposal to meet notonly Primus's "Power Systems" needsbut also their Access Control, CCTVSystems and Data.

Nilsen Electric Contracting,Switchboard & CommunicationsDivisions then set out to engineer,design and deliver the projectwithin ten (10) weeks inconjunction with NilsenTechnologies who supplied the UPS and Battery System.

The challenge was that the new"Exchange" would be located on thethird floor of a high rise buildingwith no room for Switchboards,Generator Sets, UPS and/or BatterySystems. These major items of supplywere spread throughout the buildingfrom the basement where the Main,Generator and UPS Input/Output

Switchboards were located togetherwith the UPS and Battery Systems, to the third floor where the LocalDistribution Boards and the bulk ofthe cabling was to be installed andthen onto the roof of the high risebuilding where the Generator andDummy Load Bank was located.

Scope of supply was quite varied andlarge as indicated:

• 800 KVA Generator Set• AC & DC power reticulation• Access Control and CCTV Systems• Lighting• Power• Main Switchboard• Nilsentre Form 3B switchboards

with Rear Connect & Arc FaultContainment for the generator,UPS and mains service.

• Generator Switchboard Nilsentre Form 3B, Rear Connect &Arc Fault Containment

• Level 3 Main Distribution BoardNilsentre Form 3B, Front Connect &Arc Fault Containment

• Distribution Boards Custom Form 2• Cat 5e RJ45 Data Points and RJ12

Telephone outlets• Installation & Splicing of 144 core

Fibre Optic lead-in cable from King Street

• UPS System Two (2) x 200 KVAParallel Redundant ArchitectureUPS from (IMV) with decentralisedcontrol logics and bypasses

• Two (2) Banks of FIAMM SealedLead Acid (SLA) Batteries of 400Amp Hourz

NILSEN ELECTRIC & NILSEN TECHNOLOGIES DELIVER"NILSEN POWER SOLUTION"

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EDS POWER BREAK THROWS NILSEN A CHALLENGEWith the end of the financialyear, the end of the old TaxSystem and GST to come intoeffect at the start of business onMonday, the last thing you needas an Electronic Data Servicecompany is power fluctuations.Especially when your client baseincorporates some of the largestcompanies in South Australia.

Well, Murphy’s law was true to a fault and for EDS, long a clientof Nilsen Electric, this was justthe case.

EDS experienced power fluctuationsfrom their UPS at 3.00am on theSaturday morning, just before theend of June. This is when they calledthe Nilsen High Energy Service.

A Nilsen technician was immediatelydispatched. On arrival it was foundthe power fluctuations were createdby two problems. Firstly, theexisting UPS control system wasunable to hold a steady output andsecondly via use of thermo-graphics,a hot joint in one of the Main UPSDistribution Pyrotenax supply cableswas diagnosed.

Given the horrendous financialimplications that could arise from anunplanned power outage, for EDSand their customers this meant thatEDS could not simply shutdown theircomputers. This meant problemswould have to be rectified withoutloss of a power to the facility.

Nilsen people thrive on challengesand by combining the talents andexpertise of all three NilsenDivisions (Contracting, Switchboards

and Engineering Services), Nilsenconfirmed to EDS that it would meet this challenge head on.

The largest challenge lay with NilsenSwitchboard Division, given it wasnow Saturday afternoon. Could theDivision design and manufacturetwo 1600amp switchboards inseventy two hours? With the aid of a helpful vendor and an air freightcompany, the circuit breakersrequired were delivered to Nilsen inquick time. Whilst waiting for thebreakers to arrive and utilising itsflexible product range. Nilsen set

about constructing two switchboardsincluding full busbar systems. Once the circuit breakers had arrived and were installed, theswitchboards were tested anddispatched to EDS. Total time takento meet the challenge - 67 hours.

Whilst the Switchboard Division wereworking around the clock to meettheir challenge, the ContractingDivision were doing the same at EDS.Ensuring that when the switchboardsarrived and with the aid of anotherUPS and an 800A generator set, theycould arranged a complex changeover to create a shutdown to theaffected parts without loss of powerto the facility.

Needless to say the work wascompleted in time for the GST andend of year rollovers, all with aminimum of fuss. This is whereNilsen excels with its balance ofskills in servicing, switchboardbuilding, contracting andcommunications, providing acomplete range of services.

Another challenge for Nilsen.Another challenge successfullycompleted. The outcome for EDS?,A very contented customer who wasable to place its confidence fully inthe Nilsen team.

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Nilsen Engineering Services havebeen chosen by Adelaide BrightonCement to carry out maintenance onthe high and low voltage electricaldistribution system at theirBirkenhead site during their July plant shutdown.

The scope of work includes :

• 36 Transformers• 18 HV Oil Circuit Breakers• 18 HV Vacuum Circuit

breakers/contactors• 36 LV Air Circuit Breakers• 100 Protection Relays• 36 HV Substation Earthing Systems

Prior to the shutdown commencingNilsen Engineering Services carriedout a full site survey of all electricalpower assets to determine the scopeof works and to allow AdelaideBrighton Cement and NilsenEngineering Services to jointlydevelop a shutdown schedule. This ensured the work could becarried out in conjunction with othermaintenance activities occurringduring the shutdown.

As there was a need to program thenecessary power shutdowns to avoiddisruption to other activities takingplace, Nilsen Engineering Services

had to be both flexible and adaptablein managing our team on site to fit inwith last minute amendments to theplanned works. This involvedworking various shifts and providinga team of up to six technicians andthe associated testing equipment on a flexible roster.

Nilsen Engineering Services ability toreact to these type of situations andadapt our workforce accordingly isone of the major reasons that Nilsen Engineering Services is chosen by many major Australianmanufacturers for the electricalmaintenance of their assets.

NILSEN CEMENTS MAINTENANCE CONTRACT

The Comm’s Division of strategictargeting of the ISP & Telco marketrecently paid off by securing aNational contract with InternetService Provider, Planetel acrossMelbourne, Sydney & Brisbane. Not only were Communications ableto accommodate the data cablingrequirements, they were also able toutilise Nilsen Technologies andNilsen Switchboards (Melbourne &Adelaide) to successfully provide atotal package solution for the client.

What started out as a data cablingproject over 3 states turned into acomplete electrical and lighting, UPS,main switchboard upgrade, main

CRM sub-board and 2 x UPS sub-boards in Melbourne. In all over the3 sites, a total of 7 switchboards weresupplied and 3 were upgraded.

As a tier 1 ISP Planetel now have therequirements to supply 100% uptimeto their clients, meaning now we aresupplying 2 x Gensets via NilsenTechnologies. In all, this medium sizeddata cabling contract has been turnedfrom a relatively modest project into amulti-million dollar one.

To date, Planetel have populated onlyabout 10-12% of their COLOenvironment and are marketingthrough the industry, the

opportunities of co-habitation andthe cost saving benefits. When they sign up a new client, NilsenCommunications will sell the cabinetsand inter-connection cabling requiredto activate them across each site.

The project doesn’t stop there. We are currently involved with theirsatalite installations across each stateand have already been speaking withPlanetel about Stage 2 proceeding asearly as November. This will equateto approximately an additional valueof 75% of Stage 1.

Nice work Comms.

ISP PLANETEL CHOOSES NILSEN

Nilsen Electric NSW and Nilsen Technologies have moved in together at 72 South Street, Rydalmere, a high profile wellknown business location. There are Workshop/Warehouse facilities including off street parking, spacious offices, aboardroom for presentations, training, sales meetings etc.

NEW LOCATION FOR NILSEN ELECTRIC AND NILSEN TECHNOLOGIES IN SYDNEY

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It is often said that we become bettercommunicators after a couple ofglasses of wine. Well, wineries arealso seeing the need for bettercommunication!

Heathfield Ridge winery is located10km south of Naracoorte and 15kmnorth of the well known Coonawarra,arguably the best red wine growingarea in Australia if not the world.Heathfield Ridge crushes approximately1000 tonnes of their own fruit eachyear but also crushes many tonnes forother wineries in the Coonawarra area.

Our brief was a design and constructfor electrical, communications,security services and fire alarm.

During discussion with the winerymanagement during the design stagebrought to light the keen desire forstate of the art communication withthe ability for access order status

information. Further it wasimperative that data transmissiontime to be kept to a minimum sointernet access could be optimised.

To meet this criteria cat 5Estructured cabling system ofLucent manufacture was installed,with an 8 core fibre optic cable

connecting a Cellar Door Sales andAdministration. A communicationscloset was installed in each building,horizontal cabling to each workstation location.

Also, ‘just up the road’ approximately10km south of Padthaway and 50kmnorth of Naracoorte is StonehavenWinery nestled amongst the gum treesis the Cellar door sales and functionbuilding, constructed to complimentthe winery facility.

Nilsen also carried out theinstallation of electrical, andcommunications services for thiswinery. Again a 6 core fibre opticcable was used to link the CellarDoor building and mainAdministration buildingApproximately 700 metres away.

Nilsen can offer the bestcommunication solutions havingaccreditation for installation of allmajor manufacturers of equipmentincluding Lucent, Amp, Krone and Molex.

If it’s a winery.com, Nilsen can helpit communicate!

WINE IMPROVES COMMUNICATION

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Nilsen Queensland’s inaugural project,the Mater Private Hospital, Redland Co-location project, commenced inJanuary 2000 and is due for completion,on time, in mid August 2000.

The Mater Private Hospital will providea range of world best practice, privatemedical, surgical and day surgeryservice to the Bayside community.

The hospital is co-located on the same site as the existing RedlandPublic Hospital and includes a mainhospital building, of five levelshousing patient wards with 60 beds,operating theatres, kitchens andutility rooms. Adjoining the mainbuilding is a single level building

incorporating a chapel,specialist medicalcentre, day procedure unit and reception area.

The building has been constructed toallow for future expansion in theform of additional operating theatresand patient accommodation.The electrical services scope of workson this project includes general lightand power, exterior landscapelighting, operating theatre lighting,centrally monitored emergencylighting system, cable support systemsand mains reticulation, switchboards(manufactured by Nilsen), 385kVAstandby diesel generator set,uninterruptible power supply (U.P.S.)

units, electro medical treatmentinstallations, master clock system, x-ray viewers, communications,nurse call system, master antennatelevision (M.A.T.V.) system, publicaddress system, security system,PABX infrastructure & handsets,radio paging system and a lightningprotection system.

One hundred car parkingspaces have beenconstructed around theHospital and medicalcentre buildings, and staff parking isprovided in the basement of the main building.

The Nilsen team is greatful to theBuilder, Baulderstone Hornibrook for giving us the opportunity to workon this project and to showcase ourcapabilities. We hope it will be thefore runner of many a successfulproject delivered with the Nilsen ‘on time, on budget’ stamp on it.

MATER PRIVATE HOSPITAL, REDLAND CO-LOCATION -ANOTHER NILSEN HEALTH CARE PROJECT

NILSEN BRISBANE OFFICENilsen is now back in Brisbane withwell appointed, modern offices and a workshop at 505 Litton Road,Morningside (see details on back page).Our teams, headed up by Mike Kerr(Contracting) and Simon Morgan

(Engineering Services) have alreadymade a difference on a number ofprojects and the order book just keeps growing. Well done to theQueensland team!.

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Nilsen Electric has forged for itselfan envied reputation as one of theleading ‘top end’ electricalcontractors with projects at Apin,Shoal Bay, Tindal, RAAF Base andmany others. Because of this and itsexperience in the Darwin, pilotundergrounding project, Nilsen wasinvited to partner with the Powerand Water Authority in a fibre opticinfrastructure rollout for the NTGovernment. Nilsen was chosen tobe part of a consortium that tendered to provide SMOFto nominated Northern TerritoryGovernment departmentsthroughout Darwin. Cable andWireless Optus was head of thisconsortium, which throughinnovation and competitivenesswon the contract.

Under the contract, the Powerand Water Authority (PAWA) is the owner of the fibre opticinfrastructure whichis leased to Cableand Wireless Optus.

Nilsen worked withPAWA to install thefibre OpticInfrastructure. The contract whichhad to be completed in a period of 19 weeks included:

• Design and Survey of the cableroute (same 43km!)

• Obtaining council approvals forlocation of the ducts, pipes, pits and other access.

• Install another 43km of fibre optic cable.

• Fusion splicing of 3500terminations

• OTDR testing of all splices andrecording of results

Over the 43km route length, thisinvolved 6000metres of 144 core,29000 metres of 72 core and 8000metres of 12 core Single Mode Optical Fibre (SMOF).

As is usual with any projects thatinvolve trenching and earth works in Darwin, the project started inJanuary, right in the middle of oneof the wettest wet seasons on record.The challenge within the Darwin

CBD was to install144 core fibrewithin high voltageundergroundtunnels and ducts,some of whichwere large enough

to walk through whilst others werevery difficult to locate. The fibre wasrun on cable tray below the existingHV cable. In many instances the cableswere installed in HV ducts. All cableinstallation within the tunnels wasdone at night time in the rain withsometimes up to 500mm of water inthe tunnel system (but luckily, nocrocodiles or snakes!).

A 72 core cable was then reticulated tothe suburb of Casurina viaunderground conduits, most of whichwe had to install, feeding the Royal

Darwin Hospital, NT University andestablishing at point of entry into theTelstra network. The installation soimpressed the industry that the projectwas highlighted as the main article inthe April/May issue of the AustralianPower and Energy News.

12 core fibre was then used as a spurto feed the 14 individual buildings onthe network, with more buildingsbeing connected each week or so.

To help Optus with theCommissioning of thenetwork Nilsen were askedif we could hand over morethan 70% of the networkone month early. Withsome re-planning we tookthe challenge and ran 3 8-hour shifts, fusion splicing24 hours a day in a 2 metreby 2 metre tent in tropicaldown pours. Needless tosay, the first stage was handed over on time.

The entire project was completedsuccessfully on time and withinbudget. To show how confidentNilsen was of its workmanship,Nilsen offered and was awarded themaintenance of the network for aperiod of 10 years with an option ofa further 10 years.

WE LINK DARWIN WITH A FIBRE OPTIC CABLE NETWORK

Nilsen Electric (SA)100 Regency Road, Ferryden Park, SA 5010,Phone: +61 (08) 8440 5300, Fax: +61 (08) 8347 0347Email: [email protected]: www.nilsen.com.au

5 Pyne Close, Mt Gambier SA 5290Phone: +61 (08) 8725 2442, Fax: +61 (08) 8725 2327Email: [email protected]: www.nilsen.com.au

Nilsen Electric (VIC)41 Kylta Road West Heidelberg, VIC 3081 Phone: +61 (03) 9450 1300, Fax: +61 (03) 9457 5261Email: [email protected]: www.nilsen.com.au

71 Princes Highway, Morwell VIC 3840Phone: +61 (03) 5133 9127, Fax: +61 (03) 5134 4631Email: [email protected]: www.nilsen.com.au

Nilsen Electric (WA)4 Park Place, Bibra Lake, WA 6163Phone: +61 (08) 9434 2311, Fax: +61 (08) 9434 2322Email: [email protected]: www.nilsen.com.au

Bunbury, PO Box 22, Gelorup WA 6230Phone: +61 (08) 9795 6808, Fax:+61 (08) 9795 6808Email: [email protected]: www.nilsen.com.au

Nilsen Electric (NSW)U39/2 Railway Parade, Lidcombe NSW 2141Phone: +61 (02) 9649 7551, Fax: +61 (02) 9649 7924Email: [email protected]: www.nilsen.com.au

Nilsen Electric (QLD)Unit 7, 505 Lytton Road, Morningside QLD 4170Phone: +61 (07) 3899 8866, Fax:+61 (07) 3899 8766Email: [email protected]: www.nilsen.com.au

Nilsen Electric (NT)Unit 2/43 Berrimah Road, Berrimah NT 0828Phone: +61 (08) 8947 1134, Fax: +61 (08) 8947 3173Email: [email protected]: www.nilsen.com.au

Nilsen Industrial Electronics43 Sheehan Road, Heidelberg West, VIC 3081Phone: +61 (03) 9450 1532, Fax: +61 (03) 9457 6327Email: [email protected]: www.nilsen.com.au

Nilsen Technologies150 Oxford Street, Collingwood, VIC 3066Phone: +61 (03) 9419 9999, Free call: 1-800-623-350Fax Stream : 1-800-067-263Email: [email protected]: www.nilsen.com.au

Nilsen Technologies N.Z.Unit 4, Ambury Court, 1 Porters StreetEden Terrace, Auckland, New ZealandPhone: +64 9 309 2464, Fax: +64 9 309 2968Email: [email protected]: www.nilsen.com.au

Nilsen Electric (Thailand) Co Ltd1/30 Boonyawat Road, Tambol Huawieng,Muang Lampang, S2000, ThailandPhone: +66 54 221 829Fax: +66 54 221 829Website: www.nilsen.com.au

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Editor: Mark Nilsen • Phone: (03) 9417 7788• Fax: (03) 9415 1014Email: [email protected] • Website: www.nilsen.com.au

Nilsen Engineering Services haverecently entered into a 5 yearmaintenance contract with MitsubishiMotors Australia (MMAL) Ltd, tocarry out the scheduled maintenanceof the High and Low Voltage powerdistribution system at MMAL’sClovelly Park facility. Having alreadyprovided this type of service toMMAL’s Lonsdale motormanufacturing plant for over threeyears, Nilsen Engineering Serviceswill now be servicing the

entire Mitsubishi Motors AustraliaLtd South Australian operations.

Nilsen Engineering Services havealso renewed a contract with "TheAdvertiser" newspaper plant, to carryout the scheduled maintenance oftheir High and Low Voltage powerdistribution system for a further threeyears. T he Advertiser plant is one ofNilsen Engineering Services longestrunning service contracts and themain 415V Switchboards on this siteare Nilsen switchboards.

LONG TERM CONTRACTS

We welcome Paul Donohue,Operations Manager and TomLeitchman, Business Manager toW.A’s High Energy Division.

Both Tom and Paul come to Nilsenwith substantial backgrounds inHigh Voltage and High PowerSystems. Both are well known andrespected throughout industry inWestern Australia and have hadsubstantial exposure throughprevious experience. Our strongteam is also about to be supportedby a full time Office Assistant.

Recent engineering developmentsand close customer consultationhave seen High Energy secure anorder for the supply and retrofit of3.3KV Motor Starter / Isolators toHamersley Iron, East IntercourseIsland conveyor drives.

As a result of some very innovativedesign, our team have managed toretrofit existing Switchboardcubicles with new H.V. isolators,paired (and interlocked) earth

switches, new current transformersand fused vacuum contractors. As space was very limited, veryconsiderable prototyping was required.The result was a design that not onlyutilised the space available in the bestpossible way, but it also offeredoptimised safety through purposelydesigned interlocking.

This is a 12 month project involvingintensive work on site during veryshort production shutdowns. Thefirst stage involves completingseven (7) units in just three workingdays. Out first shutdown window isthe 10th – 13th September 2000.

Ross Blacklock

W.A. HIGH ENERGY SWITCHES ON

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