Services
AUS offers a range of utility related services.
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Project Management
AUS have a proven track record of managing utilities and the risk they present to projects on behalf of our clients. We have done this at all stages of a project, from feasibility, business case and through delivery. We have tried and tested processes, systems and tools refined on some of Australia’s largest and most complex infrastructure projects that enable our team to quickly identify, quantify, scope, price, and manage utilities. Services include:
- Defining the Utilities Impacts and preparing Utility Clash Registers & accompanying drawings
- Managing the utilities scope across the different workstreams (property, design, construction, commercial and Early works).
- Preparing & Packaging Utility info for inclusion in Financial Business Cases & Tender.
- Preparing Utilities Management Plans (incl. program and cost).
- Costing utilities scope from first principals.
- Preparing Utilities Risk & Issues Registers.
- Preparing & manging the utilities program during project development & through construction.
- Identifying Early Works opportunities.
- Procurement and management of early works contractor/s.
- Monitoring site works & ITPs
- Managing the interface between the contractor & Utility Authorities.
- Subject Matter Expert services during Tender.
- Preparing Utilities Assumptions Registers.
- Establishing Utilities Management Teams (UMT) with representatives from Utility Authorities to aid assessment and approvals
- Managing Technical Advisors to ensure they are delivering best for project
Design
We have established relationships with all utility companies and designers capable of doing the Contestable Designs (Water & Electrical including Street Lighting).
Services include:
- Establishing a Utilities Clash Register & accompanying drawings
- Coordinating contestable and non-contestable relocation designs
- Obtaining certification/approvals which includes Scope of Works (SoW) and Letters of Offer (LoO).
- Undertaking Contestable Designs (Water & Electric including Street Lighting)
- Producing combined, coordinated, Utility Design packages checked using 12d.
- Preparing Utility Treatment Plans and Option Papers for inclusion in the tender.
- Undertaking Civil Design Reviews with the aim of reducing utility impacts
- Managing Technical Advisors to ensure they are delivering best for project
Transaction Advice
AUS has experience of acting as a technical subject mater expert on utilities, feeding into the Transaction process & of creating and reviewing the following utility related documentation:
- Scope of Works and Technical Criteria (SWTC).
- Utility specific contractual regimes to address specific commercial and program risk issues
- Memorandums of Understanding (MoU)
- Third Party Agreements
- G7 documents
- Heads of Terms
- Operational and Maintenance Requirements/Agreements
Constructilbility and Staging
The AUS team have a strong works delivery background gained from the physical delivery of utilities on site which we draw on to ensure the final utility design outputs have been coordinated with the overall project, that they can be constructed, and that adequate space and time has been allowed for.
Services include:
- Ability to lead & participate in constructability and staging workshops and discussions.
- Providing a constructability review of all utility treatment designs to ensure they work from an overall project staging and construction perspective, including space and time allowances.
- Providing a review across the project civil disciplines with respect to the utilities affected, to ensure all efficiencies have been considered from a program, risk and cost perspective.
- Ability to challenge contractor programs and claims based on ‘first principles’, actual delivery experience.
Digital Engineering
AUS are passionate about Digital Engineering and have developed a Utilities GIS (Web-based) platform that links seamlessly with our 12d models. Our Utilities GIS performs like a BIM model and enables our team to link ALL information to a utility asset/s such as designs, SoO, LoO, estimates, minutes and correspondence.
The GIS enables the team to manage extremely large datasets, to undertake clash assessments, to draw in relocations, and then to push the data to 12d to enable more detailed coordination/design. (We can also import from 12d). It also acts as a powerful presentational tool as it can incorporate all the project’s civil designs. (We have used it on SLR, PLRs1 & PLRs2, M4, M1 to Raymond Terrace, Nowra Bridge, Pinchpoints and ESC Projects).
Services include:
- Establishing a Digital Utilities Platform based on PS321.
- Development of a utilities GIS incorporating the existing utilities and project civil design.
- Providing an interactive utilities GIS capable of linking/storing supporting information/documentation to the specific utilities.
- Development of a 3d/12d utilities model from the survey data of the existing & proposed utilities for inclusion in the Federated Model.
3rd Party Agreements
AUS has extensive experience of preparing, reviewing and refining the following documentation:
- Scope of Works and Technical Criteria (SWTC).
- Utility specific contractual regimes
- Memorandums of Understanding (MoU)
- Third Party Agreements
- G7 documents
- Heads of Terms
- Operational and Maintenance (O&M) Requirements
As-Built Pick Up
AUS are accredited field recorders for Ausgrid and Endeavour Energy. We undertake ‘as-constructed’ survey capturing, known as As-Builts for Ausgrid, and Work-As-Executed (WAE) for Endeavour Energy. We work closely with the electrical ASP (Accredited Service Provider) civil delivery team to ensure project mapping is compliant with utility needs and drawings are prepared in line with utility standards. Data is then included in the respective GIS and Digital Engineering Systems.
Services include:
- Ausgrid As-Built Field Recording: collection of data, preparation and drafting of fieldbooks, submission to Ausgrid for certification and approval.
- Endeavour Energy Work-As-Executed (WAE) field recording: collection of GPS data, preparation of WAE in CAD, delivery to ASP1 for submission package.
Outputs:
- As-Builts and WAE in line with Ausgrid and Endeavour network standards. Data available in any format required by client, including PDF, AutoCAD (dwg), GPS (csv), Google Earth (kmz), shapefiles or other.
Survey
AUS have extensive Survey and Survey Management experience and Surveyors capable of doing the on-site pick-up.
Services include:
- Defining the required utility survey scope (non-intrusive and pit/manhole surveys) from first principles or undertaking a gap analysis of existing surveys.
- experience in scoping, procuring, and managing utility survey contractors for surface scanning and non-destructive digging of existing utilities assets.
- Standardisation of the existing utilities information (AS5488 & best practice)
- Accredited survey as-built pickups of Ausgrid and Endeavour Energy assets.
Property and Easement
AUS have extensive experience of giving property and easement advice, specifically letting our clients understand what space a utility may require in the temporary state and thereafter in the permanent state following a utility relocation, and then formalising these requirement with the utility.
Services include:
- Easement advice
- Managing Linen Plans, Docs & Registrations
- Operations and Maintenance requirements
- Subdivision advice
- Relocations required
- New utilities required
- Price & program
- Agreements
Stakeholder Management
Claims Advice
AUS have extensive local and international Claims Management experience, including dispute resolution, arbitration, and acting as an expert witness in support of our clients. More details can be given on request.
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