APD Global’s electrical earthing design team have proven to be the industry leader through providing innovative and value adding services to clients. Our specialists have been actively involved in national and international technical societies, sponsoring events, presenting papers, hosting webinars and chairing Australian CDEGS User Group.
We also have an alliance partnership with the CDEGS developer, SESTech Pty Ltd, who are the world Leader in all aspects of Earthing, Lightning and Electromagnetic Interference. APD’s agreement with SESTech is liaison and technical support on Australian-based projects, sharing study improvements and technical papers and working collaboratively as needed on high risk critical projects.
Our earthing team consists of CDEGS accredited users who have proven experience in Greenfield and Brownfield projects and have completed detailed design and field testing activities for a wide range of clients from utility (Generation, transmission and distribution) through to mining, land development and railway sectors.
APD are active members of a number of industry panels throughout Australia and this ensures that we not only keep up to date with the latest policy and technical design standards but it also presents us with an opportunity to provide our input and recommendations on any proposed changes. Some of the industry memberships that APD currently hold are listed below:
We have substantial experience in ensuring that new electrical infrastructure installed on HV, MV and LV systems will satisfy the specific utility/client requirements as well as comply with Australian and International technical standards and regulations including; AS2067, AS3000, AS7000, AS3007, AS4853, AS3835, ENA EG1, ENA EG0, IEEE 80 and IEEE 81.
APD have the know-how and track record of earthing design and field testing for a wide variety of electrical installations at high, medium and low-voltage, including:
Large zone substations to compact kiosks (220kV – 415V)Our capability in design and field testing extends to all phases of a project, including:
SOIL RESISTIVITY MEASUREMENTS
DETAILED EARTHING DESIGN
EPR/LFI HAZARD ASSESSMENT
ON-SITE AUDIT & REPAIR
FIELD COMPLIANCE TESTING
In addition to detailed earthing design studies, APD offer other engineering services relevant to the earthing system, including lightning protection design as per AS 1768 and lighting design as per and Australian Standard client requirements.
LIGHTNING PROTECTION DESIGN
LIGHTING CALCULATIONS & DESIGN
INSULATION COORDINATION STUDIES
NICHE EARTHING RELATED SERVICES
APD’s earthing team hold a comprehensive suite of testing and commissioning equipment which includes:
We also own and have expertise in operating the following earthing-related software packages:
APD Global was engaged to undertake Insulation Coordination and Reactor Switching Studies for a 275kV substation in South Australia. Advanced studies based on PSCAD/EMTDC modelling were…
Site Inspection, Earthing Design & Drawings, EPR Hazard Assessment on 3rd Party Assets, Current Injection Testing.
APD Global were contracted by PLP to engineer and design three new 1.5MVA and one 1MVA 11/0.433kV kiosk substations, powerline modifications and power and fibre…
Power System Studies, Protection Grading Analysis, Earthing System Design & Site Testing.
APD Global was engaged by Energy Australia (EA) to carry out a grid connection study to assess the local network & determine what upgrades were…
Provision of electrical engineering design and field services for large scale commercial development.
