Emerald Council Office Chiller and Chilled Water Cassette Replacement Project - Principal

⁠⁠⁠Introduction

The Central Highlands region is in Central Queensland, Australia. The region encompasses an area of around 60,000 square kilometres, making it just short of the size of Tasmania.

It is home to around 30 000 people who live in the regional centre of Emerald (approximately 15,000 people) and twelve other unique communities being Arcadia Valley, Bauhinia, Blackwater, Bluff, Capella, Comet, Dingo, Duaringa, Emerald, Rolleston, Gemfields, Springsure and Tieri.

Our region is rich in minerals and agriculture, thriving on irrigation sourced from water storage on the Nogoa and Comet rivers. We claim the largest sapphire-producing fields in the Southern Hemisphere.

Major freight routes through the region include the north-south link between Charters Towers and northern New South Wales—identified as the inland transport alternative between Cairns and Melbourne.

Central Highlands region has a road network of 4550km of Council owned rural roads and urban streets. This includes approximately 3150km of unsealed roads.

Background Information

Central Highland Regional Council (CHRC) Office is located in Emerald at 65 Egerton Street. The building is served by two air cooled chillers of Trane brand. The chiller connects to base building fan coils and air handling units. Cassette units supplement the other units. The chillers and cassette units are ageing and operate on ozone depleting refrigerant and need to be replaced as they are at the end of their serviceable lives with reoccurring outages impacting office staff.

Particulars of Goods and Services

Central Highland Regional Council is seeking tender submission from suitably qualified and experienced Contractors to act as the Principal Contractor for the supply and installation of new chilled water air cooled chiller, cassette units and associated parts and components for the Emerald head office of CHRC. Existing plant to be decommissioned, demolished and disposed off site.