APD delivered the GIS substation design for Western Power's new Bunning Lake 132 kV GIS, plus the secondary works back at Sutherland Street. Reality modelling and a connected 3D environment kept civil, structural and electrical in one digital twin, so the conversation with Western Power happened in the model - not in a drawing pack handed over the fence.
The successful design was then replicated as a physical scale model. Same plant, same walls, same access. That is the film. It is how a GIS yard gets explained to people who will never put a headset on.
The approach reflects how APD Global takes GIS work: the whole building, not just the plant pack. On a constrained site the switchgear is only half the problem - the hall has to hold it, the slabs have to sit within millimetres, the cranes have to reach it, and the secondary still has to talk to the network. Keeping civil, structural, mechanical and electrical in one house and one model is what made the twin worth signing off in.
Bunning Lake sits alongside South Jerrabomberra as the firm's GIS zone substation work on the record - Western Australia for Western Power, New South Wales for Essential Energy - from one of Australia's deepest in-house substation design benches, delivering AIS and GIS up to 500 kV.
Bentley Going Digital Awards - Transmission and Distribution. Digital transformation of 132kV Bunning Lake substation. Reality modelling and a connected 3D environment in ProjectWise. Finalist. Not a win.
