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Electrical Engineering and Control System Services

At BIVANM, our range of Electrical Engineering and Control System services incorporate proven and innovative engineering solutions that are highly effective for a wide range of clients and industries. Our team can seamlessly deliver dynamic and creative solutions for world-class projects. With BIVANM, you can expect straightforward expertise and timely, tailored service every time.

Utility Verification for Solar imbedded Energy Systems (IES)

At BIVANM, we provide Registered Professional Engineer of Queensland (RPEQ) Installation compliance for Imbedded Energy Systems (IES) for Ergon Energy and Energex. This is a critical requirement of solar Imbedded Energy Systems (IES) grid connections for any installations larger than 30kW. Our capabilities also extend to being able to design and document the full electrical system for solar farms of practically any size.

These designs typically include, cable sizing and schedules (AC and DC), panel configurations, DC string harness configurations, AC or DC combiner box design, string monitoring design, AC inverter sizing, HV (farm internal HV feeder sizing and design), etc. To date, the largest solar farm our staff have been involved in is 800MWac.

Independent Design Verifier

At BIVANM, we provide independent advice and certification on third party designs, ensuring they meet the technical requirements of Australian and other relevant standards. Our team develop and implements a comprehensive verification system with the aim to give our clients the confidence that the technical requirements of the project are met. We ensure that all contractual deliverables with regards to design, materials and workmanship are satisfied and that the job complies with all applicable legislative and statutory requirements. Please note, that if RPEQ or Certification is required, our engineers are required (by law) to be involved in the entire design process, not just be involved at the last minute to provide certification.

Design Reviews & Commenting

Our team are frequently asked to act on behalf of a client to review an independent design. This does not mean we take on responsibility and ownership of the designs. In these instances, the client is typically a bank, private investor, or another financial entity.

It is our job to review the designs on their behalf, looking for any obvious design deficiencies, questionable design practices, poor choice of equipment, incorrect environmental ratings of equipment or unrealistic assumptions that may have been made during the design process.

This service provides peace of mind for the client, so they are guaranteed from a trusted, independent source, that the project or design they are funding stacks up. It also ensures that the design and costs they have been presented with are realistic and workable. Design reviews and commenting is a way to proactively get ahead of both documentation and system design to ensure that the building has well-thought-out systems that everyone understands.

Safety in Design Meeting Facilitation

Safety in design (SID) processes integrate hazard identification and risk assessment methods into the design of all aspects of a project to eliminate or minimise the risk of injury throughout the project or structure’s life. Safety In Design Meeting Facilitation is where we have the client, contractors and builders meet and we go through the designs and all the different circuits in the design to identify any problems. We specifically look for the “what if” situations, including “What happens if this happens?”, “Is this going to be safe?”, “Is there a way for people to get out?”, “Is there enough protection in place to stop this from happening”, etc. We go through the project and identify all scenarios of potential safety issues and discuss how they are being mitigated or eliminated.

HAZOPs

A Hazard Analysis Safety Operation (HAZOP) is a systematic and highly structured study with a critical approach to examine the process and engineering intentions of the process design. It is recognised as a formal safety assessment tool to control the process risks to an acceptable level. A HAZOP analysis is mainly carried out during the basic project phase to have enough time to implement the recommendations during the project. Our team will look at the operational problems to see how people will interact with the plant and whether it will cause something unsafe or dangerous to happen.

Ensure your plant is designed safely and efficiently with the assistance from BIVANM. Contact us today for more information.

Construction Support

We provide a variety of construction support services to help identify potential problems, provide effective solutions, evaluate technical and budgetary alternatives, anticipate or avoid future disputes, which generally results in a better design and budget. Our team are able to notice things that aren’t to the design and not up to standards to form a defect list of items to fix.

Owner’s Engineering

An owner's engineer is an engineer who represents the owner of a project during design, development, and construction to confirm that the work is done well and within legal standards. They begin work on the project as early as possible, usually during the design and development phase. In a meeting with the owners, they can discuss the scope and goals of the project and define the needs that will be met. It is our job to technically review the design to ensure it’s reasonable and meets the client’s criteria of what they want it to do. The owners can then keep this information in mind as the project moves forward. The owner's engineer inspects the design plans, timelines, and other materials developed to support the project. If the engineer identifies flaws, these can be brought to the attention of the owner to discuss various ways for dealing with them.

Do you need owners engineering services? Contact us today.

Detailed Design of Electrical, Instrumentation & Control Systems

Our engineers have the required expertise to deliver detailed design of electrical, instrumentation, and control systems for either a new process or to integrate into an existing one. We complete this service for projects across a wide range of industries, each of which generally have its own niche requirements. Basically, the client will tell us what they need the system to do, then we create the electrical designs, power distribution and control systems. Our team design them and select all the instruments, and provide a full, detailed design package and that gets sent to a contractor to build.

Site Auditing, Dilapidation & Remediation Reporting

At BIVANM, we are experienced within the construction industry and have the skillset and extensive knowledge to perform thorough on-site inspections, compliance auditing and reporting. Our engineers are highly experienced and proficient in identifying and assessing issues, causes and remedial action, and itemising defects with precision and evidence.

Public Lighting Designs

Lighting is an important aspect on all projects when planning infrastructure that requires consideration of many factors from the functional to the client’s aesthetic requirements. Our team has extensive experience in the provision of specialist lighting design solutions, including V Category and P Category street lighting designs for roadways, parks, and other public areas.

Our understanding of lighting extends beyond the need to "just light" the area, but to consider the space in context with issues such as functional components, human interface, long term durability of the installation, safety, and amenity. We ensure that our designs are compliant with our clients’ specifications, Local Government Authority (LGA’s) requirements and Australian Standard AS1158 (both V and P Categories).

Process Review

The purpose of a process review is to remove project defects as early as possible in the development process. By removing defects at their origin, process reviews prevent defects from propagating through multiple phases and work products and reduce the overall amount of rework necessary on projects. Our team will go through the process and instrumentation diagrams and look for faults, ask questions and identify problems. By looking at the plant on a technical level, it helps us to recognise any potential problems, shortfalls, constraints. The client can then go back to the designers and making sure they’ve got solutions for any identified issues.

Renewables, Hydrogen Generation & Utility Scale Battery Integration

At BIVANM, we provided detailed solar farm designs for utility scale solar farms that are 100MW+ of electrical troubleshooting systems. Hydrogen generation electrolysers take renewable power and put it into hydrogen electrolyser cells and turn it into hydrogen gas. Our team can help with feasibility and high-level assessments, as well as utility scale battery integrations.

Power System Studies

A power systems study is made up of various engineering analysis investigations. Our team of engineers can provide an analysis for existing and future power systems, power flows, fault level analysis, Arc flash studies, and protection coordination. An arc flash study consists of all the major power systems studies that are required for any power systems facility. It is the evaluation of a workplace facility by an electrical safety expert to determine hazards and risks in relation to electrical systems. The goal of each study is to have a safe, efficient and reliable power system for your facility under both normal and abnormal conditions.

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