Commercial mechanical work, delivered around trading hours

Willis Island, Coral Sea · Commercial / Maintenance / HVAC

Willis Island Weather Station

Bureau of Meteorology

Ongoing

Scheduled six-monthly servicing and maintenance of essential air conditioning and mechanical systems at a remote Bureau of Meteorology facility.

Challenge: The site is around 450 km east of Cairns. Tropical heat, humidity, salt air and limited access make careful planning and preventative maintenance essential.

Solution: Cool Mech coordinates equipment, travel and on-site works for each six-monthly visit, helping keep critical systems reliable in a demanding marine environment.

• · Ongoing six-monthly servicing
• · Planned logistics for remote access
• · Dependable support for critical site systems

Palm Cove, Cairns · Commercial / Maintenance / HVAC

The Sebel Palm Cove

Accor Vacation Club

Ongoing

Ongoing maintenance and servicing across more than 200 accommodation units, resort facilities and common areas.

Challenge: A large operating resort needs reliable cooling and responsive support without unnecessary disruption to guests, staff or daily operations.

Solution: Cool Mech works closely with property management to coordinate scheduled maintenance, servicing, repairs, replacements and breakdown support across the property.

• · Ongoing support across 200-plus units
• · Planned work around resort operations
• · One team for maintenance, repairs and replacements

Cairns CBD · Commercial / HVAC

Juicy Car Rentals, Cairns CBD

Juicy Car Rentals

In progress

Supply and installation of multiple cassette air conditioning systems for a new commercial fit-out in Cairns CBD.

Challenge: The air conditioning installation must be coordinated with the wider fit-out so each system is positioned, installed and ready for the new location's opening.

Solution: Cool Mech is coordinating the cassette system installation alongside other trades, with equipment selected for reliable and efficient cooling in tropical Cairns conditions.

• · Project currently underway
• · Multiple cassette systems being installed
• · Installation coordinated with the wider fit-out

Cairns City · Commercial / HVAC

CBD office plant replacement

Staged replacement of end-of-life packaged units serving a multi-tenancy office floor plate.

Challenge: Twenty-year-old rooftop plant was failing repeatedly through the wet season, with tenants complaining of humidity and no possibility of shutting the floor down during business hours.

Solution: We staged the changeover unit by unit over three weekends, reusing serviceable ductwork, upgrading condensate drainage and adding zone control so perimeter offices stopped over-cooling the core.

• · Zero business-hours downtime during the changeover
• · Measurable reduction in after-hours breakdown call-outs
• · Tenant humidity complaints resolved

Cairns Northern Beaches · Commercial / HVAC / Maintenance

Medical centre critical cooling upgrade

New ducted system for consult rooms plus dedicated cooling for a vaccine and pathology store.

Challenge: A single system served both patient areas and temperature-sensitive storage, meaning any fault put stock at risk and left the practice unable to consult.

Solution: We separated the loads, installed a dedicated redundant unit for the storage room with temperature alarming, and rebalanced supply air across consult rooms and waiting areas.

• · Cold-chain stock protected by redundant cooling and alarms
• · Consistent temperatures across consult rooms
• · Quarterly maintenance agreement with documented reporting

Tablelands · Industrial / Refrigeration

Food processing facility refrigeration

Cool room and freezer room servicing plus condensing unit replacement during a planned shutdown.

Challenge: Production could not stop, and the existing plant was struggling to hold temperature through peak ambient conditions with high door traffic.

Solution: All works were programmed into a scheduled shutdown window. We replaced the condensing units, reworked defrost controls and fitted door seals and air curtains to reduce infiltration.

• · Temperature held through peak summer loading
• · Reduced run hours and lower energy consumption
• · Works completed inside the shutdown window

Cairns · Commercial / Maintenance

Shopping centre maintenance portfolio

Asset audit and quarterly planned maintenance across common areas and multiple tenancies.

Challenge: The centre had no asset register, inconsistent service history across tenancies and unpredictable reactive spend each quarter.

Solution: We audited and tagged every unit, built a full asset register with age and condition, then set quarterly service frequencies with digital reporting to centre management.

• · Complete asset register and replacement forecast
• · Reactive spend replaced with a predictable annual figure
• · Single reporting pack for centre management

Cairns Esplanade · Commercial / Ventilation

Commercial kitchen exhaust and make-up air

New canopy, exhaust fan and make-up air system for a restaurant fit-out.

Challenge: The original design had no make-up air provision, leaving the kitchen negatively pressurised, hot for staff and pulling conditioned air out of the dining room.

Solution: We redesigned the system with a correctly sized canopy, a roof-mounted exhaust fan with attenuation and a tempered make-up air supply, then balanced and documented the airflows.

• · Compliant, certified airflows at handover
• · Comfortable kitchen and stable dining room temperatures
• · Noise complaints from neighbouring tenancies avoided

Innisfail · Commercial / HVAC

School classroom cooling upgrade

Replacement of ageing split systems across classroom blocks during term break.

Challenge: Failing units, inconsistent classroom temperatures and a hard deadline: everything had to be finished and tested before students returned.

Solution: We pre-ordered all equipment, ran multiple crews through the break, upgraded electrical supply where required and commissioned every unit with recorded results.

• · All classrooms operational for day one of term
• · Consistent temperatures across each block
• · Simplified controls for teaching staff

Portsmith, Cairns · Industrial / Ventilation

Warehouse heat relief and ventilation

High-volume roof ventilation and targeted spot cooling for a distribution warehouse.

Challenge: Internal temperatures were regularly exceeding safe working conditions, and full air conditioning of an uninsulated shed was not commercially viable.

Solution: We modelled the heat load, installed high-volume exhaust ventilation with low-level make-up air, and added spot cooling over the pick-and-pack stations.

• · Significant drop in working temperatures at a fraction of the cost of air conditioning
• · Improved staff comfort and productivity
• · Low ongoing running costs

Cairns CBD · Commercial / HVAC / Maintenance

Plant room refurbishment

Chilled water plant room upgrade including pumps, valves and controls.

Challenge: Corroded pipework, failing pumps and a controls system nobody on site understood, in a building that could not lose cooling for more than a few hours at a time.

Solution: Works were staged to maintain partial cooling throughout. We replaced pumps and valves, re-insulated pipework, rationalised the controls strategy and trained building staff on the new interface.

• · Reliable cooling restored with redundancy in place
• · Lower pumping energy consumption
• · Building staff able to operate and monitor the plant

Trinity Beach · Commercial / Maintenance / Ventilation

Body corporate common area systems

Maintenance agreement covering lobby cooling, car park ventilation and amenities exhaust.

Challenge: The committee had no service history, recurring car park ventilation faults and no clear picture of upcoming capital costs.

Solution: We audited all common-property mechanical assets, rectified the ventilation faults, and set up an annual schedule with reporting formatted for committee meetings and sinking-fund planning.

• · Compliant car park ventilation with documented airflows
• · Clear ten-year capital replacement forecast
• · Reporting the committee can actually read