GPA provides specialists to audit and ensure compliance to applicable Australian and international standards.
Our Expertise
- Auditing compliance and maturity of systems and equipment
- Forensic engineering
- Structural integrity reviews
- Monitoring and surveillance of structures
- Safety assessment and extension of life of cranes
- High voltage and low voltage protection audits
- Earthing system analysis and audits; AS2067, EG1, EG0 & IEEE80, AS3000, AS60079, fault level studies to AS3851
- Electrical asset (LV and HV) arc flash risk assessments
- Substation and electrical installation audits
- Electrical asset condition assessment and testing (switchgear, cables, transformers, motors)
- Forensic engineering and fault investigation
- Hazardous area equipment audits
- Audits and production of operation and maintenance manuals
- Audits and assessment of backup power systems (UPS and generators)
- Power system shutdown and contingency planning
- Instrumentation auditing
- System capacity assessments (for telemetry and SCADA)
- Independent verification of designs AS61511
- Type B appliance certification
- Safety studies and SIL assessments
- Pre-demolition inspection
- AS 3788 and AS 2885 fitness for service assessments on pressure equipment
- Advanced analysis: stress analysis and fracture mechanics
Our Systems
- Full 3D CAD design facilities (CADWORX & SolidWorks) including structural steel design
- CAESER pipe stress modelling software
- HYSYS steady state simulation
- HYSYS dynamic simulation
- HYSYS flare simulation
- SKM Power Tools HV to LV network modelling
- PowerCAD and PowerPAK LV electrical design tools
- InstruCalc instrumentation sizing and selection
- INEL Saphire reliability and risk modelling software suite
- PV Elite pressure vessel design tool
- Microstran, Limcon and Structural Tool Kit – structural steel design
- Strand 7 – finite element analysis
- PIPE-DFRAC – ductile fracture control modelling
- Phast – hazard analysis/plume dispersion modelling
GPA has a team of certified inspectors with the Australian Institute for the Certification of Inspection Personnel (AICIP) from a mix of engineering, trade and site management backgrounds.
We perform asset condition and optimisation studies for clients across a range of applications and disciplines including:
- Power systems
- Energy management
- Control system and processing plant optimisation
- Pipe work and pressure vessels
- Tanks
- Structural assessments
- Safety critical systems, such as burner and boiler management studies
- Risk assessments.
Services we provide related to condition monitoring include:
- In-service inspection of pressure equipment for commissioning, statutory, return to service
- Extension of life, post alteration and post repair inspections in accordance with (AS3788)
- Certified weld inspection
- Reliability centred maintenance strategies
- Integrity management plans
- Risk based inspection plans
- Wall thickness corrosion surveys
- Fatigue assessments
- Crack assessment using FEA software
- Fitness for Service Reviews of Pressure Equipment (AS3788)
- Fitness for Purpose Reviews of Pipelines (AS2885)
- Performance test plans
