ELECTRICAL
Stowe Australia has been providing Electrical Services for nearly 100 years and has developed a strong background in all facets of electrical power installations and maintenance.
Our Construction and Projects Departments undertake the electrical services on Medium to Large Scale Projects.
Our Client Services Departments undertake Small to Medium Size Projects, State and National Rollouts, and also look after the needs of our direct customers both small and large. This division is geared to provide rapid and efficient 24 hour service covering additions, alterations and preventative and breakdown maintenance.
The Electrical Services offered by the Company include:
- Design and Construct Services
- LV, MV and HV installations
- Switchboard and Metering alterations
- Standby Generators
- Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS)
- Light & Power
- Exit and Emergency Lighting
- Lighting Control Systems
- Energy Management Systems
- Lightning Protection
- Maintenance & Servicing
Business Sectors covered include:
- Commercial
- Office Fitouts
- Retail
- Large Scale Residential
- Defence
- Public Sector
- Industrial & Mining
- Infrastructure
- Entertainment Venues
- Data Centres & Computer Rooms
- Rollouts
COMMUNICATIONS
As a Critical and part of any business, Stowe Australia recognises the importance and necessity of providing Best Practice Communications Cabling Solutions for our clients.
Our experience includes the installation and ongoing maintenance of Cabling Solutions for Network Carriers and Financial Institutions such as the Optus Headquarters Fitout and CBA Data Centre.
Our commitment to quality is illustrated in the Installation Certifications achieved with all of the mainstream structured cabling component manufacturers with which Stowe Australia is a National Cabling Partner.
A brief description of our communication services utilised by carriers and customers includes:
- Design and Construct Services
- Cat 5e, Cat 6, Cat 6A, Cat 7 & Cat 7A
- OM1, OM3 and OS1 Fibre Optic Solutions
- Blown Fibre Solutions
- Carrier Lead-ins
- Installation and infrastructure for GSM sites
- Wireless Access Points
- Power Over Ethernet
- Data Centres / Disaster Recovery Centres
- Patch By Exception
- MATV
- Audio Visual
- Public Address & B.G.M.
- Infrastructure Audits
- Testing and Certification
Manufacturer certifications include:
- ADC Krone – 20 Year warranty
- Amp Netconnect – 25 Year warranty
- AFC – 20 Year warranty
- Belden CDT – 20 Year warranty
- Clipsal Datacomms – 20 Year warranty
- Corning – Cable Partner
- Emtelle – 20 Year warranty
- Molex Premise Networks – 25 Year warranty
- Nexans – 20 Year warranty
- Ortronics – 25 Year warranty
- Panduit – 25 Year warranty
- R & M – 20 Year warranty
- Siemon – 20 Year warranty
- Sirrocco – 20 Year warranty
- Systimax Solutions – 20 Year warranty
INDUSTRIAL
Stowe Australia has the depth of experience and financial capability to carry our major industrial projects on a national basis including:
- Electrical & Communication installation for Public Sector Infrastructure.
- New industrial and instrumentation projects for the mining, heavy industry and manufacturing process industries.
- Specialist equipment for conveyors, crushing mills, washeries, and all forms of product facilities
A brief description of our Electrical & Instrumentation services include:
- Design and Construct Services
- Electrical reticulation systems
- HV and MV substations and switchboards
- Generator and Backup Systems
- Motorized control systems
- Process control systems
- PLC Systems
- SCADA Systems
- High Frequency systems
- Integrated control and instrumentation
- Fuel storage and transfer systems
- Automatic synchronising systems
- Maintenance Services (see services offered)
Business Sectors include:
- Water Filtration Plants
- Sewerage Treatment Plants
- Manufacturing Facilities
- Petrochemical Facilities
- Food Processing Facilities
- Shipping Terminals
- Conveyor Systems
- Traffic Tunnels
- HV & MV Substations
ROLL OUTS
Stowe Australia has established an extensive network of local offices across NSW, Queensland, Victoria and the ACT and has accredited partners operating in TAS, SA and WA and is ideally suited to provide a national roll-out of electrical, communications or other service to customers with a national footprint.
A ROLL OUT is a project which involves the installation of services into sites which may be scattered across a city, a State or across the whole country.
The critical factors are:
- Resources
- Programming
- Consistent Workmanship
- Proven Experience
- Value for Money
- Client Focussed Project Management
Stowe recognise the need for a specialist approach to the coordination of a roll out and is structured to meet this demand.
These services are successfully provided to national customers including McDonalds, Fujitsui, Aristocrat and Preparatory Schools.
DESIGN SERVICES
Stowe Australia maintains a comprehensive in- house design capability based on its own qualified Electrical Engineers and BICSI RCDD qualified designers supported by the practical knowledge and experience of its competent installation and maintenance teams or, alternatively, augmenting and providing value engineering to our clients own designers. Our input to the design process offers efficient, effective and practical outcomes.
Members of our design staff represent the industry on various Standards committees including Committee EL/1 AS/NZ 3000 Wiring Rules Standard (Chairman), Committee CT001 AS3080 Communication Cabling Standard, and also BICSI and NECA committees.
In NSW our Infrastructure Engineering team is fully accredited as a Level 3 Service Provider capable of designing HV & LV distribution networks for Ausgrid, Endeavour Energy, Essential Energy and private customers.
Our professional design staff have been involved in the design of such diverse projects as:
- Electrical and communications systems for commercial buildings
- Level 3 Design of Utility Networks
- Industrial process installations
- Mining and industrial infrastructure
- Telecommunications infrastructure
- Residential, Commercial &Rural subdivisions
- HV chamber, padmount & kiosk substations
- Public and private street lighting
- Energy and power monitoring systems
- Solar power systems
- Gas & diesel standby power systems
Stowe Australia is committed to provide value solutions for its customers and to provide reduced deliver time, cost savings, enhanced functionality, safer and with minimal environmental impact.
THERMOGRAPHIC SCANNING
Thermographic scanning detects potential trouble spots in your electrical, industrial and mechanical apparatus saving you money by preventing costly breakdowns and repair bills. Find the potential problems in a fast and accurate way before breakdowns occur, resulting in lost production time or irate tenants.
The Flir E45 Thermographic Scanner is a high quality infra-red scanner. This camera scans your apparatus and provides detailed information on the temperature of various parts of the equipment. Potential problems appear as unusually high operating temperatures thus causing stress to the equipment. Whilst the equipment may not have broken down yet, it will only be a matter of time. Finding the potential problem areas allows you to plan for maintenance of the equipment at a time to suit your production schedule or your tenants.
Using sophisticated software, Stowe provides a comprehensive report on the Scanning performed on your premises. The report includes a colour thermographic image, a colour photo to enable clear indication of the area scanned and colour graphic information describing the results of the scan. Accompanying the report are recommendations for action, which we are pleased to discuss with you and arrange the required preventative maintenance.
New plant and equipment can benefit from Thermographic Scanning as it will provide confirmation of correct installation and act as a reference for ongoing maintenance and scanning reports.
Click on the example below to view a thermographic report:
POWER QUALITY SERVICES
Stowe is aware that it is essential for its customers to have a continuous, reliable and pure electrical supply for today’s critical industrial and commercial business equipment. External or internal sources can cause voltage sags, surges or unwanted harmonics that can overload, damage or cause mal operation of computers and other sensitive process equipment.
For this reason it has developed specialist teams offering an array of testing, reporting, maintenance and installation services that are second to none for those of its customers where the continuity and quality of supply are critical. Such installations include Data Centres, Computer Rooms, Defense Facilities, Health Facilities, Mining Sites, Manufacturing Plants etc. In fact it is difficult to find an installation that today is not totally reliant on its electricity supply.
Our services include:
- UPS system maintenance and installation
- Power Quality analysis
- Power factor correction
- Energy auditing of electrical installations
- Ultrasonic detection and analysis
- Thermographic scanning
- Surge protection
- Harmonic filtering
- Lightning protection systems
- Standby generators
- HV switchboard installation, maintenance and switching
- HV & LV circuit breaker servicing, repairs & intrinsic testing
- HV transformer oil testing and maintenance
- HV & LV circuit breaker retrofit upgrades
- Discrimination & grading studies of protection services
- Primary & secondary injection testing of protection devices
- PLC industrial control systems
- Comprehensive preventative maintenance services
- Earthing systems maintenance & testing
- Battery system maintenance & testing
ENERGY MANAGEMENT
Stowe Australia is a Sustainable Energy Development Authority Ally and has been active in Energy Conservation Services since 1996. Our commitment to the implementation of Energy Saving Solutions has been recognised with a number of SEDA Awards.
Stowe Australia is also a Member of the Green Building Council of Australia and has a number of Green Star Accredited Professionals that are able to provide assistance in the Design, Development and Verification of Green Star Building Applications.
Energy Management Services and Solutions available:
MAINTENANCE SERVICES
Stowe Australia provides a 24 Hour Help Desk Facility to cater for the Outside Normal Working Hours Emergencies in the Electrical & Communications cabling disciplines.
All Maintenance Services are handled by our Client Service Division which is a customer focused, service based part of our business.
Stowe Australia supports our customers through our specialist services covering preventative, routine and breakdown maintenance.
Maintenance Services available include:
- Help desk and 24 hour emergency call-out
- Building maintenance
- Infra-red scanning
- Test and tag appliances
- Energy usage analysis
- Power Factor correction
- UPS and Battery Maintenance
- Emergency Lighting testing
- Electrical Safety Switches (RCD)
- Lamp Replacement
- Voice & Data Cabling Testing & Audits
Business Sectors covered include:
- Commercial Base Building
- Commercial Offices
- Data Centres
- Computer Rooms
- Retail Outlets
- Defence Facilities
- Health Facilities
- Educational Facilities
- Industrial Facilities
- Mining
- Entertainment Venues
HV & LV INFRASTRUCTURE CONSTRUCTION
Stowe Australia participates in the construction of HV and LV electrical infrastructure to the extent permitted by the Regulatory environment in each State.
Our Construction and Projects Departments undertake the electrical services on Medium to Large Scale Projects.
In NSW apart from being authorized and accredited as a Level 3 Service Provider capable of designing HV & LV networks for both Supply Authorities and private customers, Stowe is also certified as a Grade A Level 1 and Level 2 Service Provider allowing us to construct and commission electrical infrastructure assets for any size project.
Our infrastructure capabilities include:
- HV networks both public and private
- Padmount, kiosk & chamber substation installations
- HV switchboard and RMU installations
- Transformer installation & maintenance
- Installation of poles & aerial conductors
- Street & area lighting
- HV cable jointing
- Excavation & cable laying
- Liason, connection & commissioning to Authority networks
Projects have been delivered for Defense facilities, Educational institutions, Developers, Hospitals, Utilities and other end users.