The Tweed Valley Health Hub at Kingscliff forms part of the broader $723 million Tweed Valley Hospital development, funded by the NSW State Government. The project delivers two new Health Hub buildings: one to accommodate the Bugalwena Aboriginal Health Service, providing culturally appropriate healthcare to the local community, and a second dedicated to Learning, Development and Research. Together the buildings provide staff accommodation, meeting spaces, consulting and clinical spaces, research facilities and the full range of building services infrastructure that a modern healthcare environment requires.
The Mechanical Contractor Fredon Air Services engaged Dewick & Associates to provide engineering services, including air static pressure calculations, and the Mechanical O&M Manuals for the completed works.
Our focus was on producing accurate, well-structured documentation that gives the Health Hub’s facilities management team a reliable reference for all mechanical systems across both buildings from the day of handover.
By Lauren Sahin
Credit: The image has been generated by AI and depicts a conceptual health care hub. It is not the actual site.
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Mechanical Contractor Fredon Air Services was responsible for installing the mechanical services across two new health buildings on the Tweed Valley Hospital site, working within a healthcare environment where system reliability and compliance with health infrastructure standards are non-negotiable.
Working within a government-funded healthcare environment meant every mechanical system had to satisfy stringent performance, reliability and compliance requirements, particularly those relating to ventilation, indoor air quality and infection prevention. Mechanical services in NSW healthcare facilities are designed and commissioned in accordance with Australian Standards, the National Construction Code (NCC) and NSW Health technical requirements, making accurate O&M Manuals an essential part of ongoing compliance and asset management.
Fredon Air Services required specialist engineering support to complete the project’s air static pressure calculations. They engaged Dewick & Associates to provide both engineering expertise and technical documentation as an integrated handover solution.
Mechanical documentation for healthcare facilities demands a significantly higher level of technical accuracy than a typical commercial project. Ventilation systems serving clinical areas must be documented in accordance with healthcare design and operational requirements governing air change rates, filtration performance, pressure relationships and indoor air quality, enabling the facilities team to maintain compliant operating conditions throughout the building’s lifecycle.
Alongside the documentation, the air static pressure calculations required detailed engineering analysis and verification against the installed ductwork to demonstrate system performance. Integrating these engineering deliverables into the O&M Manuals while maintaining consistency, traceability and compliance across two separate buildings required close coordination between engineering, technical writing and the construction team.
Dewick & Associates delivered an integrated engineering and documentation solution through close collaboration between our Engineering, Technical Writing and Client Coordinator teams. Our engineers completed the air static pressure calculations, providing validated technical data that confirmed system performance and could be readily reviewed against the installed mechanical services. At the same time, our Technical Writers prepared comprehensive Mechanical O&M Manuals covering every installed mechanical system across both Health Hub buildings.
Working closely with Fredon Air Services, consultants and subcontractors, our Client Coordinators managed documentation collection, technical reviews and stakeholder communication to ensure information was complete, compliant and delivered on schedule. The manuals included detailed system descriptions, operating procedures, preventative maintenance schedules, equipment data and compliance information, with the engineering calculations seamlessly incorporated into the final documentation package. The result was a coordinated set of handover documents supporting compliance with the NCC, relevant Australian Standards and NSW Health operational requirements.
The completed project provided Tweed Valley Health Hub with a comprehensive engineering and documentation package that supports the ongoing operation, maintenance and compliance of the mechanical services across both buildings. The Mechanical O&M Manuals provide facilities managers with an accurate reference for operating and maintaining the ventilation and mechanical systems, while the validated air static pressure calculations provide supporting engineering evidence of system performance.
For Fredon Air Services, Dewick & Associates delivered a coordinated engineering and documentation solution that successfully satisfied the project’s handover obligations, providing a high-quality, compliant close-out for a major NSW government healthcare development.
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The image has been generated by AI and depicts a conceptual health care hub. It is not the actual site.
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