Capability & Services

We’re fully accredited as Professional Building Design Practitioners and Fire Safety Practitioners with the NSW Department of Fire Trading, Building Professionals Board as required for Hydraulic and Wet Fire project design, declaration and certification along with design accreditation with the Queensland Building and Construction Commission.

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Hydraulic Services

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INCLUDING

  • Site infrastructure

  • Potable & non potable water supply services

  • Domestic cold, hot and warm water reticulation

  • Internal and external sewer and sanitary drainage services

  • Grease and oil, trade waste drainage

  • Natural gas and LPG reticulation services

  • Roof water/gutter drainage services including syphonic drainage

  • Tapware and sanitaryware fixture selection

  • Infrastructure design

  • Rainwater harvesting services

  • Reverse osmosis (RO) water reticulation (AS/NZS 4187:2014)

  • Medical gases

  • Industrial gases

  • Energy efficient solutions (solar and co-generation)

  • On site greywater and blackwater treatment and reuse systems

  • Water features

Site Investigation

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INCLUDING

  • Underground services search (pipes and cables)

  • CCTV (piping survey and investigation)

  • Water supply and fire services on site flow testing

  • Services dilapidation and due diligence reporting

  • Groundwater investigations

  • Drainage services smoke testing

  • Ground information survey (GIS) and mapping services

  • Soil sampling and testing (in accordance with AS 1547)

  • Water supply sampling and testing

Fire
Services

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INCLUDING

  • Site infrastructure

  • Fire sprinkler services

  • Fire hose reel services

  • Fire hydrant services

  • Dry fire (detection and alarm systems)

  • Portable fire extinguishers

  • Block plans and signage

  • Fire emergency and evacuation sound systems and intercom systems

  • Combined fire sprinkler and hydrant services (for high rise development)

  • Gaseous fire suppression systems

  • On site water storage and pumping provisions

  • Special hazards

Project Management

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INCLUDING

  • Experience in the various forms of project delivery including PPP, managing contractor, head contractor, design and construct, fast-track

  • Experience with redevelopment of existing facilities and infrastructure which need to remain operational during redevelopment

  • Key stakeholder and user group consultation and needs determination

  • Preparation of return and functional requirements briefs, concept and detailed design reports

  • Risk and OH&S assessment and design to mitigate risk and comply with OH&S requirements

  • Innovative and sustainable design solutions

  • Accurate budgeting and design to budget and program

  • Design to “maximise” services plant and equipment efficiency and to “minimise” maintenance

  • Design for “flexibility” to make provision for future expansion and/or adaptive re-use

  • Lateral design approach, innovative design and client service

  • Design management and coordination

  • Value engineering and life cycle costing

  • Cross discipline knowledge and civil, hydraulic, fire expertise

  • Strategic infrastructure and building services planning and design expertise

  • Fast track delivery and accurate budgeting

  • Negotiations and approvals with service authorities

  • Environmental and ESD system design expertise

  • Construction administration, commissioning & handover services

Civil
Engineering

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INCLUDING

  • Site infrastructure (water, sewer and stormwater)

  • Stormwater management

  • Erosion and sedimentation control plans

  • Stormwater drainage (including detention/retention systems)

  • Sub soil drainage On site detention modelling and design

  • On site wastewater treatment plant design (sewer and stormwater)

  • Water sensitive urban design (WSUD)

  • Rainwater reuse modeling and design

  • Flood studies

Forensic Engineering

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INCLUDING

Our experience as leading Services engineering consultants allows us to apply our engineering knowledge to determine what went wrong.

Our ‘Forensic Services “ are primarily used by:

  • Insurance Assessors : to confirm insurance claims and liability

  • Lawyers and Barristers: to have independent ‘Expert Witness’ reports in court or tribunal proceedings; and,

  • Strata Companies and Property Managers: to provide an independent ‘Professional Opinion’ Reports into service failures that occur within a building.The report may also provide remedial recommendations.

Contact us to discuss your Forensic Engineering requirements.

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Testimonials

“Scott Harris provides professional accurate, rational design solutions and documentation; I have no hesitation in recommending Scott as a concerned and active professional in the industry.”

PETER HOSKING - Architect - Quattro Architecture & Interior Design

“Having employed several other consultants in the past, we can enunciate with conviction, Scott Harris is in a field of his own. We, as a company, have been more prosperous with Scott’s conscientious and ingenious resolutions to problematic construction issues. Scott has display, on numerous occasions, a level of honesty and integrity this is rarely found in today’s business world.”

JOHN MCGRATH - Managing Director - Ansavon Commercial Plumbing

“Scott Harris has been providing valued professional hydraulic consultancy services to our firm for the past four years. Our joint projects have usually involved refurbishment of existing complex health and TAFE facilities requiring a careful assessment of services and then augmentation and the integration of services to serve larger accommodation. Scott has provided these services competently and with elegant solutions that minimized the cost of the additional hydraulic services infrastructure. I would not hesitate in recommending Scott Harris to any prospective client requiring a high quality hydraulic services consultancy.”

CSABA KOLLANYI - Director - Kallanyi Architects

PROUD TO HAVE DELIVERED SOLUTIONS FOR A RANGE OF RESPECTED CLIENTS AND INDUSTRY PARTNERS

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