ADELONG Engineering and Constructions have added a massive feather to their bow with an International Standard Certification from industry-leading testing, inspection and certification service Bureau Veritas.
“Some of the tenders we applied for and various other companies and government departments, we had to have a baseline international standard in the group so there’s basic fabrication up to a certain level and construction and components manufacturing and this really is the benchmark of that, so this international standard represents fabrication manufacturing metal components, piping, structures and provision of mechanical maintenance services process engineering associated works,” Adelong Engineering and Construction owner-director Geoff Moss said.
“It just shows our suppliers that we have a second and third party regulatory authority, this one being Bureau Veritas, that comes in and does an internal audit on our systems to make sure all the system approaches we’ve got to what we say done to an international level, so it’s really a quality endorsed document by a bureau.
“There are other companies that do it, but in our business we do a lot of work with Visy Pulp Paper and government, with the contact we have with the RFS.”
Mr Moss explains the process that led to the certification.
“We had to have a third party audit by an independent, and they come in and go – ‘your shortfalls are this’ and then they bring the second party in which is the complying certification company, which is Bureau Veritas, and we are presented to them to say ‘these guys are applying for this international standard,” he said.
“It gets to the stage where they come in and they do two or three orders; this has taken 18 months to go through all the processes, and in the end, we’re presented to a committee that has a look at our company as a whole and says ‘these guys are ready to rise to this particular standard’.”
“Even before the auditing process starts, there’s an isodocument that outlines all the requirements our company must fulfil, and you have to build systems around that that are robust enough to capture what the standard requires and how that looks in the company’s context,” Adelong Engineering and Construction operations manager Scott Henry said.
The company was established in Adelong 24 years ago, around the time Sydney was hosting the 2000 Olympics.
“Part of our core business is supplying essential process engineering services and we are at the end of a four-year contract with state government with this RFS refurbishment,” Mr Henry said.
“We’re putting out a truck every four to six weeks fully refurbishment to current specifications, and the specification of these trucks is to international standard; it’s quite high.
“We don’t spruik very often but I think this is a real benchmark, as there is no one else in this area which has this standing.”
Mr Moss said this standard would be applied to new and emerging works as well.
The company employs up to 30 people, and it has led to the growth of other businesses and therefore employment in the area.
“The calibre of people and trades around this area is still very high,” Mr Henry said.
