Cranbourne Racecourse Upgrade

To assist in the upgrade of the Cranbourne Racecourse facilities, the Cranbourne Turf Club enlisted Balpara to provide a suite of services, including Land Surveying, Electrical Asset Survey set-out, Asset locating, Electrical Detailing, Underground Electrical Design and multiple forms of Drafting.

Project Overview

Cranbourne Racecourse has welcomed the addition of a new indoor complex to its host of facilities. As part of this upgrade, the existing high voltage underground power supply needed to be relocated so as not to interfere with the new complex’s footprint.

This process involved a considerable number of services to be coordinated by Balpara and carried out on a site, with the addition of some very specialised requirements.

Project Scope

Throughout this project, Balpara provided:

1.New Underground Electrical Design and Drafting on Ausnet Utility Drawings

This was a unique requirement, with the new high voltage cable being potentially installed under a future batter of a not yet built man-made overpass bridge. During the electrical design process, Balpara considered future cable depth and derating calculations, and were able to devise a solution.

2. Property Boundary Re-establishment by a Licenced Surveyor

Balpara drew on its licenced Surveying Services to arrange bringing the existing title and easement paperwork and plans up to date. This was necessary, considering the new cable route deviated from the existing power supply easement.

3. Existing Cable Tracing / Underground Locating Services and Surveying Services

In order to verify the existing easement location, right up to where the new cable route would deviate from the old route, Balpara traced and Surveyed the existing cable on site.

4. Ausnet Utility As-Built Drawing Updates

Following the existing cable tracing and surveying, Balpara’s team re-drafted the corresponding Ausnet utility As-Built drawings where required to ensure the old route was accurately recorded.

5. Survey Stake-Out of the Newly Designed Cable Route

Building up the body of information collected to this point was critical in allowing Balpara to stake-out the new cable route, giving construction crews absolute confidence in where to install their new conduit and cable.

6. Underground As-Built Electrical Detailing of New Cable Route During Construction

Balpara is well experienced in As-Built Electrical Detailing and needed to be very conscious of adhering to off-set working shift times to avoid spooking thoroughbreds training in the area.

7. Underground As-Built Electrical Drafting of New Cable Route

As one of the exclusive providers to AusNet Services and with extensive experience in As-Built Electrical Drafting, Balpara’s new As-built plans were promptly approved by AusNet.

8. VEDN Auditing of all Electrical Works of New Cable Route During Construction

Balpara’s VEDN Auditing team has extensive experience in Electrical VEDN Auditing, and were able to ensure this project was built in accordance with all the required regulations and standards. This component of the project included multiple stages of auditing with the exception of network auditing.

9. Creation of New Easement Plans

Based on the extensive Survey Data Balpara collected up to this point of the project, our team was able to draft and create the new easement plan for approval by Ausnet services and the titles office.

Value Add

Balpara’s wide range of services allowed us to be a one-stop-shop for the client, streamlining multiple components of a project which could have otherwise been complex and time-consuming had there been multiple service providers.

Relevant Accreditation/Quality Standards

Balpara is VESI and AusNet accredited. We have held ISO9001 certification for over six years without non-conformances, and have attained re-certification to the new AS/NZS 2016 Standard.