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The company is please to announce the excellent safety milestone of Electrix Central Queensland on their Ergon Asset Inspection contracts, recently achieving three years without a Lost Time Injury. Working for Ergon Energy, Electrix conducts inspections of their overhead and underground network on a four year cycle, at around an average of 85,000 poles per year. Covering an area from Bowen and Airlie Beach (North Queensland) to Gin Gin and Bundaberg (South Queensland) and as far west as Birdsville and Longreach. At the end of this month the contract will have been held for ten years, having won it back twice so far. It is no small feat to keep a statistic Read more

The Company is pleased to announce that New Zealand’s Transmission Grid owner and operator, Transpower NZ Ltd, has awarded Electrix Ltd the renewal of existing term maintenance contracts. The re-issue lengthens the contract by a further 6+3 years demonstrating the successful achievement of repeat business. Key awards include: Station Contracts for Northland, Central North Island, Upper North Island Metering, South Island HVDC and Otago/Southland.Lines Contracts for Auckland/Waikato, Central North Island and Otago/Southland. Read more

Contract Award Extension – Asset Inspection and Maintenance Services, Electrix, Victoria The Company is pleased to announce that Powercor Australia has awarded Electrix Pty Ltd a further extension to the existing contract for provision of Asset Inspection and Maintenance Services on the Powercor and CitiPower electricity networks in Melbourne and Western Victoria. The contract includes a cyclical inspection program for network assets in high bushfire risk areas. Electrix has successfully provided a similar range of services for Powercor since 1997 when the original Asset Inspection contract was signed. The contract has been retained continuously over this period with regular benchmarking by Powercor against the market under a competitive tender process. Read more

McConnell Dowell works on major stand-alone projects as well as undertaking the integral E&I work in Mechanical and Civil projects. Project teams are experienced in many different DCS, ESD, RMPS and PLC systems, and have completed projects involving pipelines, power stations, gas processing, refinery re-instrumentation, chemical plants and terminals. Wholly owned by McConnell Dowell, Electrix is a specialist contractor with a strong track record in delivering construction and maintenance services to the power industry. Electrix's expertise ranges from traditional and renewable generation to the 'poles and wires' that deliver electricity to homes and businesses. As a genuine full-service provider, Electrix also deliver and maintain electrical, gas, data and communications services to the commercial and Read more

The Company is pleased to advise that Electrix has been awarded a contract by Western Power for its Asset Inspection Services. The contract scope will include asset inspection services across 50% of Western Power's electricity network in the South Western corner of Western Australia. The contract period is for an initial two year term with an option for a further one year extension. The mobilisation period for the works has commenced with field works to commence early July. The contract will see the opening of a new regional office and depot, firmly establishing Electrix in Western Australia. This contract award comes off the back of a strategic decision by Electrix Read more

The Company is pleased to advise that Electrix Australia has been awarded a further Asset Inspection Contract for Ergon Energy’s Central Queensland region for a period of 3+1+1 years. The Project Office has been established in Rockhampton for 8 years, and securing this new Contract is a result of hard work and continuous improvement by the Electrix team. The Contract will have more than 50 employees and contractors, spread across Central Queensland from Bowen to Bundaberg, and as far outback as Birdsville.   ENDS About McConnell Dowell Corporation Limited: Formed in 1960, McConnell Dowell is a world-class engineering, construction, building and maintenance group with projects throughout Australia, Asia, New Zealand, the Pacific and the Read more

The Company is pleased to advise that Electrix Limited has been awarded the New Zealand Inter-Island HVDC Pole 3 Project Electrical Installation for Benmore Convertor Equipment by Siemens. The scope of work is for the installation of Pole 3 HVDC converter equipment at Benmore substation, which consists of: extending and modifying the 220kV buswork for the connection of new equipment, which will include running new spans of 220kV overhead lines and installation of tubular bus work; installing a set of three single phase converter transformers to feed the converter equipment. The converters comprising of stacks of thyristors will be installed in the valve hall along with associated control and protection Read more