Project
Essential services testing, fire compliance and rectification
Key Challenges
- With regulator conditions at Airport infrastructure and a dual purpose Civil / Military airport, working Airside and Line sire both have critical compliance requirements
- Majority of Reactive works are required to be performed outside of hours due to an active terminal status
- The performance of essential services testing in an active airport environment requires exact planning tools and effective communication
Outcomes
Decade long incident free safety record
Innovative Mechanical solutions delivering Energy savings
Superior performance resulting in increasing commercial footprint
The Client
Townsville Airport with a rich history dating back to the 1930’s, and is the gateway to North Queensland, welcoming an average of 1.25 million passengers to the region each year. Townsville Airport is North Queensland’s regional hub, providing connections from capital cities with direct flights servicing major Australian Cites such as Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide & Darwin.
As the gateway to many of North Queensland’s natural wonders, Townsville Airport boasts a unique passenger mix of tourism, business, defence and resource industry travellers, and is a joint-user facility with the Department of Defence.
Townsville Airport is also home to the QAL-owned Northern Australian Aerospace Centre of Excellence (NAACEX), a purpose-built hangar precinct for aviationrelated businesses.
What we achieved with our customer
As a major transport hub for North Queensland and the wider regional district, this critical infrastructure to the Queensland economy, which services military, tourism, sporting and entertainment venues, Queensland Airports Ltd has entrusted the Mechanical work to AE Smith for over a decade now.
Initially services HVAC, Refrigeration and Essential services for the satellite buildings such as Hangers, Main operational sheds, and the Administrative buildings, the team has offered a superior level of service, communication safety, whereby we were directly approached to provide pricing for the Main Terminal, being successful in acquiring this other critical asset in XXXXX.
Now, covering the entire Townsville airport precinct and with over XXXXX assets whereby the team is delivering planned and reactive maintenance and end of life asset upgrades services, the Queensland Airports Ltd has provided excellent feedback to the level of services being provided in both a critical venue plus both line side and airside, with the regulator requirements
Utilising our in-house asset management system (AMP) the team engaged Queensland Airports Ltd in XXXX to provide our customer with a tool which is able to use a Common Data Environment, in a live platform to enable the end user (typically the customer) a live platform to monitor and assess all assets. Of equal importance within AMP is the ability for our customers to access the Asset Lifecycle Modelling features which are available to assist with capital forecasting and budgeting process, years in advance and with our live application algorithms, enables modelling at any time of the day or year.
A further recent innovative solution was engaging and working with the customer in relation to multiple and ongoing issues associated with the Chillers, when we were engaged to perform services at the Terminal. Our innovative and engineered solution results in zero failures subsequent to installation, in addition to providing an energy savings to the customer.
