2018: 69 engagements.
In 2018 Epcotec delivered 69 engagements across Far west and regional New South Wales. Every engagement is recorded below - sector, work delivered and how it was achieved. No client names, by policy; references are available on request. The full 734-engagement register lives on one page here.
Sixty-nine deliveries in the far west of New South Wales: wastewater treatment plants, roads, hydrology and hydraulics, terrestrial remote sensing, asset management and control, farming, expert witnessing and forensic investigations. Civil, structural and municipal engineering now collaborate with laser technologies, photogrammetry, forensics and the ICT layer as one practice.
2018 · 69 of 734 engagements recordedAudited the sewage lagoon system, mapping sludge depths, berm condition and inlet behaviour across all five cells.
Sonar bathymetry from an unmanned surface vessel replaced hand-line depth soundings and tally-sheet lagoon records.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Modelled the sewer rising main under peak loads, sizing a duplicate gravity branch for the western catchment.
Hydraulic simulation calibrated against IoT flow meters that retired weekly dip-tape readings from access chambers.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Refurbished three hillside pump stations, replacing fatigue-critical pipework and restoring standby capacity for the southern system.
Cloud-hosted SCADA with vibration analytics superseded hardwired alarm panels and nightly manual plant inspection rounds.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Designed the treated effluent reuse scheme, matching seasonal irrigation demand to lagoon volumes for sporting fields.
Weather-linked telemetry scheduling software took over from fixed-time valve logs kept in a paper daybook.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Rebuilt the collection network hydraulic model, adding dry-weather infiltration checks for every pump basin across town.
Permanent acoustic flow loggers replaced overnight bucket meters, with results streamed to a cloud dashboard.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Detailed inlet works upgrades, screening rag and grit before the lagoons and protecting downstream pumps from blockages.
BIM coordination tied screen, channel and piping geometry to laser-scanned as-builts rather than 1990s drawings.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Certified the sewer rising main route, confirming grade, thrust restraint and air valve spacing along the alignment.
GNSS-RTK as-laid tracking uploaded straight into a GIS registry, retiring bundled hand-marked cadastral field sheets.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Measured lagoon storage capacity and prepared a desludge program sequencing cells around peak summer loads.
UAV photogrammetry with cloud point-cloud processing replaced pole survey and tape-offset cell volume estimates.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Standardised pump station controls, adding duty-standby logic and wet-well level interlocks across the reticulation scheme.
LPWAN level sensors reporting to a hosted panel replaced float switches read only during breakdown visits.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Assessed the evaporation lagoon system, reporting containment integrity and recommending staged cell works for the next budget cycle.
Drone thermal imaging flagged liner seepage zones that yearly visual paddock walks had never detected.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Pressure-tested the reticulation mains, cataloguing joint losses and staging renewals for the oldest cast-iron sections.
Correlated acoustic leak loggers pinpointed losses that district meter paddock patrols could only chase by guesswork.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Compiled a manhole condition register, grading frames, covers and surrounds and pricing a five-year renewal program.
Mobile mapping photos geotagged to GIS dropped straight into the register, replacing clipboard condition forms.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Traced storm inflows entering the sewer during wet weather and sized a relief main for the low catchment.
Continuous rain-gauge and flow telemetry confirmed infiltration that once-off spot readings missed entirely each storm.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Monitored lagoon outlet quality across a full year, reporting loads, trends and licence compliance to the regulator.
In-stream multi-parameter sondes auto-logging to cloud replaced fortnightly grab-bottle samples and laboratory transcription sheets.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Supported the treatment plant upgrade, checking process hydraulics, chemical dosing points and future load growth allowances.
Calibrated dynamic process simulation replaced static spreadsheet assumptions for dosing, aeration and clarifier behaviour.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Metered trade waste discharges from industrial premises, setting loads, categories and equitable charges for each connection.
Smart area-velocity meters with remote billing feeds replaced annual estimating from nominal premises floor areas.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Raised and armoured the Lachlan flood levee crossings, restoring road access freeboard and scour protection at threatened points.
Two-dimensional flood modelling on cloud compute replaced hand-ruled backwater calcs from the 1970s mapping sheets.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Updated the Bogan River flood study, mapping depths, velocities and evacuation routes for the growing township fringe.
Lidar terrain capture fused with gauge telemetry fed a cloud model, retiring hand-surveyed flood crests.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Drained a chronically flooded industrial street, sizing pits, pipes and overland paths for the design storm.
Rain-on-grid simulation checked every pit, replacing the single-point rational method on legacy survey sheets.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Restored flood immunity to the Darling approach road, raising formation and protecting embankments against prolonged high river levels.
Hydraulic modelling tested armoured options digitally, superseding trial-and-error rock placement guided by memory alone.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Resized the town crossing culverts, easing backwater on upstream blocks while keeping fish passage and bed stability intact.
CFD-assisted culvert checks replaced nominal capacity tables copied from decades-old design charts.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Reworked the township stormwater network after repeated flash flooding, adding detention storage and upscaled trunk drains.
Continuous gauge-adjusted radar rainfall drove the design storms, replacing uniform-point estimates from isolated events.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Secured the Namoi river crossing road, detailing scour countermeasures and raising the low section above frequent flood levels.
Drone photogrammetry tracked bank movement between floods, data that annual peg-and-tape inspections never captured.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Lifted flood immunity on the ridge access road, addressing ponding, rutting and washouts along the flood-prone route.
Mobile lidar mapped existing formation grades, replacing static-level spot shots taken every fifty metres.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Investigated causeway overtopping at the lake outlet, balancing road closures against safe flood passage for traffic.
Water-level telemetry plus photogrammetric cross-sections replaced staff-gauge logbooks and manually rowed section soundings.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Reviewed the township levee, locating low points, seepage paths and priority raises before the coming wet season.
Terrestrial laser scan delivered a full levee surface, retiring chain-and-level runs along the entire alignment.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Redesigned the main street drainage after storm damage, replacing undersized kerb inlets and relaying affected pavement.
Digital twin drainage models simulated each inlet upgrade before construction, replacing rule-of-thumb pipe sizing.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Mapped evacuation-access reliability under the Lachlan design flood, ranking road closures and staging upgrades for critical links.
Network flood analytics ranked every access road, replacing committee judgment based on past flood anecdotes.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Certified a commercial development flood report, checking floor levels, storage impacts and site escape against the Murrumbidgee design flood.
Peer-reviewed cloud hydraulic runs verified proponent models, replacing desktop checks on printed water-surface plots.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Modelled the Macquarie riverfront street network, prioritising access upgrades where frequent flooding cut emergency response times.
Scenario flood tiles in web GIS let planners query closures instantly, retiring folded printout map sets.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Sited and tested a stock and domestic bore for a grazing property west of the Lachlan floodplain.
Geophysical resistivity sounding replaced dowsing and guesswork, with results logged digitally for the driller.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Mapped surface water flows across a cropping block, siting contour banks and headlands to cut erosion losses.
Drone photogrammetry generated centimetre terrain models that paced field-walking surveys could never match.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Surveyed an on-farm storage dam, reporting capacity, seepage areas and a staged lifting option for extra water.
UAV-derived volume models updated in the cloud, replacing tape-and-level capacity curves pinned in the shed.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Instrumented three pastoral water bores, tracking levels, run hours and pump health for a remote grazing holding.
Satellite telemetry reported bore data daily, retiring fortnightly 200-kilometre rounds just to read gauges.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Balanced irrigation demand along a channel offtake, cutting delivery losses and drafting an entitlement compliance plan.
Ultrasonic channel meters feeding a cloud ledger replaced weedy manual notch-gate readings and month-end tallies.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Audited water use across a cotton irrigation farm, benchmarking application efficiency and prioritising automation investments.
Soil moisture probes with remote dashboards replaced the finger-in-soil test and notebook-based scheduling.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Investigated declining groundwater yields for an irrigation licensee, interpreting aquifer behaviour and recommending sustainable extraction limits.
Digital aquifer modelling on monitored drawdown data replaced extrapolation from a single 1980s test report.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Designed drip conversion for an established citrus block, matching pump capacity, filtration and fertigation to the orchard layout.
Zone flow telemetry and pressure sensors replaced visual sprinkler walks as the basis for scheduling.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Assessed water supply security for a pastoral holding, sizing tanks, bores and reticulation across a drought-resilient plan.
Tank level telemetry with low-water alerts replaced radio check-ins and dry-tank failures discovered too late.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Tested an artesian bore and distribution system, quantifying free-flow losses and recommending head works for the bore drain.
Acoustic flow profiling along the drain replaced bucket-and-stopwatch checks at scattered head gates.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Digitised the sealed and unsealed road register, attributing hierarchy, condition and renewal costs across the shire network.
A cloud-hosted digital twin registry superseded ring-bound asset ledgers updated once a year by hand.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Rebuilt the water reticulation asset register, reconciling mains, hydrants and valves against surveyed field positions.
Field crews captured defects on tablets synced to the registry, retiring paper punch lists and re-keying.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Consolidated electrical network records into a single spatial registry, mapping feeders, pillars and switchgear across the southern grid.
Mobile GIS capture verified each asset on site, replacing decades of inconsistent plan amendments.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Standardised pump station control narratives, documenting sequences, alarms and failsafes into a versioned engineering registry.
Cloud document control with revision tracking replaced duplicated drawings circulating in filing cabinets.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Built a gravel road condition register, prioritising grading cycles and resheet budgets across the district network.
Vehicle-mounted lidar graded roughness continuously, replacing subjective windshield inspections noted on paper maps.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Registered levee, channel and town infrastructure assets with inspection frequencies and condition scoring for forward budgeting.
Barcode-tagged assets checked in from a phone app replaced untraceable handwritten inspection cards.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Upgraded the street lighting register, attributing poles, luminaires and energy tariffs ahead of an LED changeover program.
Mobile laser asset capture logged pole positions to GIS, retiring tape-measure offsets from kerb lines.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Compiled a culvert and cross-drainage register, scoring blockage risk and capacity against the design storm hierarchy.
Drone orthophotos linked each structure into the registry, replacing mile-by-mile field sketch sheets.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Established a kerb, footpath and gutter register with defect grading and defensible five-year renewal costings.
Tablet surveys with photo evidence uploaded live, replacing triplicate inspection forms filed after months.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Consolidated the water meter register, reconciling readings, sizes and locations ahead of a smart-metering rollout.
Registry sync with metering software replaced quarterly manual reading rounds and transcribed billing sheets.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Measured ground movement at a disputed mine-fringe property, providing independent evidence on subsidence extent and timing.
Repeat terrestrial laser scans with cloud differencing quantified movement beyond what occasional peg readings showed.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Reconstructed a road collision sequence from physical evidence, preparing scale drawings and expert testimony for the hearing.
Photogrammetric scene modelling from site photographs replaced tape-and-chalk measurements taken hours after impact.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Settled a building damage dispute by measuring differential settlement and attributing causes between construction and site conditions.
High-precision digital levelling rounds evidenced movements that older water-level pipe setups could not resolve.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Quantified damage from a burst water main, establishing loss volumes and apportioning liability across affected frontages.
Telemetry back-analysis reconstructed the loss curve, replacing rough estimates from meter drops and memory.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Provided flood damage expert evidence for an insurance dispute, verifying depths, velocities and debris lines at the site.
Drone photogrammetry and archival gauge data rebuilt the flood event, superseding conflicting verbal recollections.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Resolved a stockpile volume dispute at a transport depot, certifying tonnages for an independent commercial settlement.
UAV survey with cloud photogrammetry delivered auditable volumes, replacing loader counts and contractor estimates.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Investigated premature pavement failure on a resurfaced street, attributing cause between subgrade moisture and construction defects.
Ground-penetrating radar profiling replaced destructive test pits as the primary evidence across the length.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Measured blasting vibration at a neighbouring residence, providing independent monitoring evidence for a compliance complaint.
Digitally telemetered vibration monitors logged every blast, retiring resident-kept claims unverified by any instrument.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Mobile-mapped the southern town streets, delivering an engineering-grade point cloud for kerb, pavement and service design.
Vehicle lidar captured at traffic speed, replacing weeks of static total-station pick-up along open roads.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Laser-scanned the town weir and headworks, producing as-built geometry for gate refurbishment and structural checks.
Terrestrial scanner registration in cloud software replaced hand-drawn as-built sketches from the 1960s file.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Photogrammetrically surveyed a major sports precinct, feeding earthworks design and drainage grading into the upgrade documentation.
Drone photo blocks processed on cloud produced surfaces in days, not the weeks aerial charter required.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Mapped a constrained hospital expansion site, capturing buildings, services and trees for staged design coordination.
Terrestrial laser scans fused with drone imagery replaced conflicting site plans inherited from prior works.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Scanned the levee and industrial floodway, producing surfaces for freeboard checks and future extension design.
Registered scan clouds checked against design geometry in the cloud, retiring manual section-by-section plotting.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Digitally recorded a heritage timber bridge, capturing member geometry and defects for load assessment and conservation.
Laser scan and photogrammetry preserved exact geometry, replacing scaffold access and manual calipered measurements.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Refreshed the council works depot network, cabling offices, workshops and yard radio coverage onto a managed platform.
Cloud-managed switching and Wi-Fi replaced consumer routers and a tangle of ad-hoc extensions.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Cut the depot telephone system to VoIP, porting numbers and integrating handset, mobile and after-hours routing.
Hosted cloud PBX replaced the ageing PABX and its fragile, single-technician-dependent copper maintenance contract.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Retrofitted depot connectivity for the workshops, adding fibre backbones, VLAN separation and secure remote access for field crews.
Managed SD-WAN links replaced consumer broadband as the depot's primary and backup connectivity path.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Commissioned the depot radio and dispatch refresh, linking vehicles, handhelds and office consoles on one digital network.
Digital trunked radio with GPS fleet visibility replaced patchy analogue channels and paper run sheets.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Standardised the depot IT environment, migrating files, scheduling and plant records to a hosted cloud workspace.
Cloud workspace with automatic backup replaced a lone server taped together and backed up irregularly.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra