Jake Pienaar - Hydraulic and Mechanical Section Manager
Office: Darwin
Email:
jake.pienaar@wge.com.au
Phone: D: +61 8 8992 9908 M: +61 (0)400 921 282
Jake began his professional career in 1987 working for major multi-discipline and multi-national design consultancies for 20 years. He also worked for a period of 5 years as a building services contractor on two very large and high profile projects as on site project manager.
He joined WGE in 2013 as Design Manager in the Darwin office.
Jake has relevant experience in all aspects of building engineering and has particularly enjoyed working on major and regional projects in the tropics.
His projects vary from asset management, condition audits and feasibility studies covering engineering disciplines to documentation form design and construction management.
He is highly regarded as being able to deliver major and complex multi-discipline projects, particularly those performed in the context of a collaborative ECI delivery environment, involving multiple parties and stake holder interactions.
He is a strong communicator, who is highly proactive in leading teams to producing optimal outcomes.
Outside of work:
When Jake is not at work he enjoys the outdoors and has managed to fit periodic overseas travel adventures in with his family (which now includes his two teenagers).What will you bring to a project?
I am a very experienced building services engineer, with strong communication skill and am highly proactive in leading teams to producing optimal outcomes for my clients.Qualification:
Bachelor of Engineering, MechanicalIndustry accreditations / bodies:
Member of AIRAH for 25 years • IEAust accredited energy auditor (1991) • Green Star Accredited Professional (2007) • Registered Professional Engineer, Queensland • Registered Professional Engineer, NT Building Practitioners Board (Mechanical & Hydraulic)Previous Projects
James Cook University Central District Cooling Project. Jake was the client project manager and contract administrator responsible for the delivery of the project; which consisted of the 12ML stratified thermal energy storage tank (chilled water), central chiller facility housing HV chillers, pumps, cooling towers, controls, HV transformers, underground chilled water reticulation pipe-work throughout the Douglas Campus for connection to buildings, controls including a dedicated Building Management System (BMS) linkage to the existing JCU BMS, Site HV electrical reticulation and site communications infrastructure.Lyric Theatre, Concert Hall. Jake was the project manager on site in Singapore for 2.5 years during the construction, commissioning and hand-over of this world class Lyric Theatre, Concert Hall, associated gallery, recital, commercial precinct and underground carparks. A $600M Cultural Precinct. The power house consisted of 2 x 2MVA, 3 x 1.5MVA and .5MVA standby diesel generators. The cooling plant consisted of 4 x High Voltage 5MWr chiller trains and 2.5 MWr LV chiller systems for redundancy and low load management.
Metropolitan Complex, HoChiMinhCity, Vietnam. Jake was the construction project manager on site for the project. The power generation plant consisted of four numbers 1MVA Cummins engine / Marathon alternator sets, bulk fuel storage tanks, exhausts from the basements to the top roof, main switch rooms, synchronising and control panels, electrical busduct and cable distribution, ventilation systems and plantroom fitout. These machines are used to supply prime power to the high-rise building and complex. The electrical design and installation also catered for re-selling of excess power to the power grid. The electrical design further incorporated un-interruptible power supply consisting of : four matching 1MVA Motor-Generator sets (rotary UPS), synchronised with the diesel generators, paralleled with 800kW for 3 hours battery supply UPS.