Engineering Services

APMS Engineering services spans the building maintenance management & refurbishment space and extends to the telecommunications, mining & petrochemical space. Our services cover consulting and advisory through to project management, resourcing including project delivery.

APMS Engineering services and capabilities exist to provide sustainability through innovation that embrace advances in technology, drive cost efficiency, resulting in delivering ongoing value for money outcomes and solutions.

Building maintenance management & refurbishment

APMS Building maintenance management & refurbishment engineering services include:

• Detailed assessment of clients specific requirements
• Development of design concepts, solutions and recommendations,
• Preparation of design solutions for preferred options,
• Management and evaluation of tenders
• Maintenance and operation of refurbishment works

Telecommunications

Australia's telecommunications is one of Australia's fastest growing industries, as a result of substantial investment to infrastructure, research and development, and the adoption of new technology.

The Australian telecommunications industry has been growing rapidly over the last decade, doubling in size over the last 7 years to be an annual $30 billion business. This has seen rapid development of world-class solutions for Australian businesses, governments, and other organisations.

In April 2009 the Australian Government, had committed to invest up to $43 billion over eight years to build and operate a National Broadband Network in Australia that will deliver superfast broadband connectivity through high speed, next generation broadband.

APMS Telecommunications Engineering capabilities will be heavily focused on having significant involvement in both the development and rollout of the Australian National Broadband infrastructural network development program. The depth of our expertise spans:

• System design
• Installation
• Vendor Management
• Maintenance and operational management
• Infrastructural development and upgrade programs

Mining

The resources sector in Australia covers exploring, extracting, processing and exporting minerals and petroleum (oil, condensate and gas). Australia has large quantities of these resources, which it mines. Used domestically and exported to countries around the world.

Resources are critical to the Australian economy because they underpin important parts of industrial and export activity. Domestically, Australia's resources industries ensure a supply of energy raw materials at competitive prices to households and businesses.

Australia has a well-deserved reputation as a reliable and competitive supplier of a wide range of high-quality mineral and energy products. Earnings from resource exports make up almost half of Australia's total export earnings, which further contribute to economic growth.

Growth in Australia's resources sector depends critically on investment in exploration. Strong growth in the sector in recent years has been underpinned by robust minerals exploration expenditure over the past decade. Mineral exploration expenditure in Australia has increased by 11 per cent (in inflation adjusted terms) over the past 10 years, to $1.4 billion in 2006–07.

Most of this was spent in Western Australia, with the largest proportion on finding gold ($455.9 million). In 2006–07, total Australian mineral and petroleum exploration expenditure rose by 57 per cent to $3.9 billion, following a 21 per cent rise in 2005–06. Strong increases in expenditure reflected high minerals prices.

Australia has the world's largest resources of recoverable brown coal, lead, rutile, zircon, nickel, tantalum, uranium and zinc, and ranks second in the world for bauxite, copper, gold, ilmenite and silver. Economic demonstrated resources (EDR) for industrial diamonds are ranked third largest in the world and manganese ore fourth.

In 2006–07, mineral resource exports totaled $107.8 billion, or 77.4 per cent of Australia's total commodity trade. Over the six years to 2006-07, Australian mine production increased by almost 21 per cent to meet world demand. Over the same period, China and Japan were the largest buyers of Australian minerals.

Petrochemical

APMS Petroleum Consultants Group is resourced with some of the countries highly recognised and experienced Petroleum industry experts with a reputation built on delivering bottom line value with a key focus in Petroleum Exploration & Petroleum Refining facilities and plant maintenance.

The Petroleum Exploration industry plays a key role in forming the future of oil and gas production. Its activities uncover the oil and gas reserves that underpin developments in the Oil and Gas Production industry. The Petroleum Exploration industry is expected to spend about $4.02 billion on exploration in 2009-10, compared with $1.27 billion in 2004-05.

The Petroleum Refining industry is expected to generate revenue of about $40.62 billion in 2009-10, compared with $27.47 billion in 2004-05. Industry revenue is expected to expand by about 2.4% in 2009-10, having shrunk by nearly 20% in 2008-09 as petroleum product prices slumped in the wake of the global financial crisis. The industry is expected to generate about 0.2% of Australia's GDP in 2009-10, making a net profit of about $767.2 billion.

APMS Petroleum Consultants Group core competencies are in maintenance management process engineering of equipment and piping; mechanical equipment selection, troubleshooting, and failure analysis; controls and instrumentation including DCS/PLC control systems; electrical hazardous area zoning and design; civil and structural design work focused on containment; project management and commissioning services; hazard and operability study (HAZOP) facilitation risk analysis of facility operations including maintenance and management of all plant and equipment.