The mammoth task of installing more than 20,000 metres of high voltage (HV) cable – with the longest continuous run being 800 metres – has been deemed an accomplishment worthy of a prize.
Norfolk Group company O’Donnell Griffin has won the 2012 National Electrical and Communications Association (NECA) Excellence Award for best project in South Australia.
The award recognises the Adelaide Desalination Plant project, which had to overcome significant challenges.
It is an enormous 100 gigalitres of water per annum plant, and the sheer size and complexity of the installation demanded ‘outside the square’ solutions to meet project requirements,” the judges said when announcing the winner.
“The challenging scope also included 300,000 metres of low voltage cables and 200 electrical panels, more than 500 HV terminations (with zero failures), thousands of metres of cable management system, and installations and termination of more than 3500 instrumentation cables.”
O’Donnell Griffin also topped the small industrial category for works completed on the Mini Wind Turbine Trial project, and received a commendation within the large commercial category for the delivery of the Adelaide Film and Screen project.
O’Donnell Griffin chief executive of operations, Keian Barnard, said the wins were a testament to Norfolk Group’s diversified engineering capabilities to deliver multi-disciplined, complex projects for customers.
NECA is the peak industry body for electrical and communications contractors in Australia.
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