A plan to make your apartment building EV-ready: car park survey, electrical capacity, backbone design, load management, costs and a staged rollout for the owners corporation.
From $1,490 (Per building), including GST. Indicative starting price: the final fixed price is confirmed in writing after a site assessment.
As more residents buy electric vehicles, strata buildings face the same questions: can the building supply the power, where do the cables go, who pays, and how do you avoid a patchwork of individual installations? Our EV-Ready Building Study answers those questions with a whole-of-building plan that the owners corporation can approve and deliver in stages.
The study is priced from $1,490 per building as an indicative starting price, confirmed in writing after we review the building and car park.
We install EV chargers and the electrical infrastructure behind them, so our designs reflect what can practically be built in an occupied car park. The building is surveyed in person, and our recommendations favour a shared backbone with load management over ad hoc individual connections, which can use up the building's spare capacity quickly. All designs are prepared for installation by our licensed electricians to the relevant Australian standards.
Owners corporations receiving requests from residents for EV charging, or planning ahead before EV ownership grows in the building.
Most buildings do not have enough spare capacity for every space to charge at full power at the same time, and they rarely need it. Load management shares the available capacity across chargers, so many vehicles can charge overnight without an expensive supply upgrade. Where capacity is still insufficient, the report explains the upgrade path and the network approval required.
Installing a backbone and chargers on common property needs owners corporation approval, and cost-sharing arrangements are often set out in a by-law. Fire safety and car park ventilation requirements can also affect where chargers can go.
1. The committee requests the study and sends building plans, car space numbers and common-property bills.
2. We confirm the scope and fixed price in writing and schedule a survey.
3. Our team surveys the car park, switchboards, risers and cable routes.
4. We design the backbone, load management, metering options and staging, with indicative costs.
5. We deliver the report and explain the plan to the committee.
The price shown is an indicative starting price; the final fixed price is confirmed in writing after we review the building.
Access to the car park, switchrooms and building plans must be arranged through the strata or building manager.
Costs in the report are indicative; installation is quoted separately after detailed design.
Works require owners corporation approval and may need a by-law, council approval or network approval.
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