With the clock ticking and the customer’s drafting team flat out on other projects, we were asked to deliver the almost impossible.

Electrical engineers O’Donnell Griffin had performed a refit of the massive Warragamba Dam and engaged Drawable to complete 4,500 as built drawings in 5 weeks with no leeway in our timeline – any delay and penalty clauses would kick in.

After one meeting with ODG’s project team at the bottom of Australia’s most famous dam, off we went, heads down and bums up. Over the following 5 weeks we delivered 900 drawings per week to a very happy client, allowing the project to be finished on deadline with complete handover manuals.

This was the tightest timeline we have ever been given and we didn’t disappoint.

The Drawable team has worked with our national broadcaster throughout Australia almost from the very beginning. We’ve done everything from providing office and furniture layouts for major sites in Brisbane, Canberra and Perth, to documenting power and data distribution through the Ultimo headquarters, continually maintaining the HVAC drawings for several sites through large refits and creating as built drawings for various contractors in NSW and other states.

Whether it the ABC’s HQ in Sydney, the beautiful historic Hobart site or regional offices in Shepparton, Dubbo or Mackay, we pretty much worked on them all.

Recent projects include documenting plant rooms and common spaces for their Asset Management program, allowing tradespeople to be directed to work zones quickly by providing up-to-date drawings showing the elements that need their attention.

The brief for this job in the early days of Drawable was a little overwhelming at first, but we love a challenge and don’t have a too-hard basket!

Now-defunct electrical contractor Rivercorp commissioned a set of drawings allowing them to efficiently install the power distribution cabling and switchboards for both the Barangaroo and Randwick sites for World Youth Day in 2008. With over a million people from around the world visiting for the weekend, there was no room for error.

By breaking the site’s drawings into zones, adding pictures showing the different types of portable switchboards and devising a colour-coding system for the different cables sizes and types, our design worked a treat.

All events at both sites went off without a hitch (or a circuit breaker tripping) and we helped Sydney look awesome in the eyes of our international visitors – and the Pope!