Land Surveying – Renewable Energy Sector, Berrybank Windfarm Stage 2

Swanson Surveying have recently been engaged to provide engineering & civil surveying services to Stage 2 of the Berrybank Windfarm Project, located approximately halfway between Colac and Ballarat, near the townships of Cressy and Lismore. The project is being developed by Global Power Generation Australia and will provide 289.8 MW (stage 1 & 2 combined) of green energy to the grid via 69 Turbines (26 in Stage 2) for a total project cost of $284 million.

Our roles on this site have included:

• Installation and maintenance of the site survey control network
• Initial set-out of works areas, turbine locations, and road/drainage alignments for review by client/s and landowners
• Assistance in data capture and redesign of turbine, road & drainage positions/alignments
• Preparation and installation of machine control files for Topcon, Trimble and Leica Machine control systems for 40+ excavators, graders, bulldozers and other plant on site
• Turbine base setout including bulk earthworks, electrical conduit as-builts/conformance reporting, concrete & steel reinforcing setout & conformance reporting, Hold-down bolt setout & conformance reporting (pre & post concrete pour)
• Road alignment set out for bulk earthworks, lime stabilisation, subgrade and final surface as-built conformance reporting
• UAV drone data capture for use in volumes and civil infrastructure as-built reporting.

The project has involved multiple surveyors on site, working to tight deadlines and balancing relationships between head and subcontractors, and GPG/Vestas. To discuss your next major infrastructure project, please contact the team at Swanson Surveying.