Case study on Energy Queensland’s 33-11kV Redcliffe Substation: How safe design is an integral part of designing, building and business operations

Obligations are placed on engineers and designers to identify hazards and controls to reduce risks in construction, operation, maintenance and removal of assets.  More often seminars on this topic have chosen to focus on the critical legislation, standards and codes of practices relating to these obligations.  However, this seminar will take a whole of system approach by stepping through how safe design is an integral part of business operations.  To do this a case study will be stepped through for the design and construction of Energy Queensland’s 33/11 kV Redcliffe Substation.

Speakers

Andrew Meiklejohn

Andrew has 23 years’ experience in the electricity supply industry, starting his career in 1998 with Energex and now continuing with Energy Queensland.  Andrew is a senior leader in Energy Queensland and a Registered Professional Engineer of Queensland (RPEQ) in the electrical discipline.  Andrew has extensive experience in primary and secondary substation design, design engineering, and also has operational experience in field construction, field testing, network operations, overhead transmission line design, underground transmission line design along with experience in emergency and disaster management. 

He is a founding and continuing member of Energy Queensland’s Engineering Development Committee responsible for providing leadership, guidance, subject matter expertise and support of Energy Queensland’s STEM programs, and is the National Chairperson for the Australian Standards Committee for Lightning Protection.

Currently, Andrew is the manager of the Substation Design & Engineering Department at Energy Queensland and is accountable for Substation Design, SCADA design, Telecommunications design, Power station Electrical & Mechanical design, for Ergon Energy’s and Energex’s high voltage substations and Ergon Energy’s remote community power stations.