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Electrical and data solutions providers
When you require professional electrical and data
solutions you can be assured that the Caldwell
and Levesque group of companies can provide you
with your exact requirements – on time,
within budget and carried out with the highest
standards of materials, workmanship and management.
Expertise and ability
Clients that have benefited from our design and
installation expertise include many leading corporate,
educational and government owned establishments,
three of which are detailed below.
Navman
Navman is a leading manufacturer of
world-class marine electronics and Global Positioning
System (GPS) technology and provides a diverse
range of navigation technologies across a wide
range of applications.
When the company decided to develop and extend
its site to bring its 450 Auckland staff together
under one roof and expand its R&D facility
it turned to Caldwell & Levesque to meet its
specific electrical requirements. This project,
with a contract value of $700,000, included power
supply works and mains cabling, a new main switchboard
and a full electrical distribution system. As
well as this Caldwell & Levesque also fitted
specialized lighting and emergency lighting. As
much of the cabling infrastructure was surface
mounted, cable tray was used not only to reticulate
power but also to support lighting and give a
‘high-tech’ appearance commensurate
with Navman’s operations.
Navman’s new Northcote premises are more
than double the previous size and were opened
by the Prime Minister in March 2005.
Māori
Television
In order to achieve its stated objective
of playing a major role in the revitalisation
of te reo Māori (Māori language) and
culture, Māori Television required a state-of-the-art
office and broadcasting facility. TV broadcast
requires specialized lighting and power equipment
that will still function in the event of failure
of the main electrical supply. For this ‘design-build’
project Caldwell & Levesque supplied an emergency
power generator and installed it on the roof of
the station in Newmarket, Auckland. In conjunction
with this emergency power supply it also designed
and installed dedicated lighting and power circuits
fed from an uninterruptible power supply (UPS)
to ensure continuous operation of the station’s
electrical systems at all times.
This project, with a contract price of $800,000,
also included lighting and emergency lighting
as well as a complete electrical reticulation
system including the main switchboard and sub-distribution
system to all final circuits and equipment. Some
of these areas were designed with dual purpose
circuits to allow areas to be used for different
purposes at the flick of a switch.
Māori Television- Mā rātou, mā
mātou, mā koutou, mā tātou
(For them, for us, for you, for everyone).
Auckland
University - Student Amenities
New Zealand's largest university, The
University of Auckland, has over 40,000 students
and is recognised as a leading international learning
centre. With more than 5,500 international students
from 85 different countries the university needed
to extend to accommodate these ever rising numbers.
The resulting new Student Amenities Block, on
Auckland’s Symonds Street, is a multi-storey
complex containing shops, banks, offices and cafes
as well as extensive student computer suites.
This entire infrastructure requires an equally
complex electrical and data system. Caldwell &
Levesque’s electrical division, in conjunction
with its data cabling division, Data-Tech provided
these systems.
With an electrical contract value of $1.7 million
the Student Amenities Block contains several kilometers
of electrical and data cabling, which was installed
over a period of fourteen months. The electrical
cabling originates at a specially installed on-site
high voltage (HV) transformer via a 1600 amp main
switchboard to over 30 local distribution boards
servicing the separate areas within the complex.
The project included all interior and exterior
power and lighting, which ensures that it stands
out as an educational icon at night time.
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