Commercial Electrical Services

Yes. Melbourne Power Group is a Registered Electrical Contractor (REC 37142) with Energy Safe Victoria and carries $20 million public liability insurance. A Certificate of Electrical Safety is issued for all prescribed electrical work. We provide certificates of currency, licences and safe work method statements before starting, and our electricians complete site inductions where the builder or building manager requires them.

AS 2293.2 requires a 90-minute discharge test every six months, with the results recorded in a logbook kept at the building. In Victoria emergency lighting and exit signs are also essential safety measures, so their maintenance has to be reflected in the building's annual essential safety measures report. We carry out the six-monthly test, replace failed fittings and batteries, and keep the logbook current so the annual report has records behind it.

Under the Building Regulations 2018 (Victoria), the owner of a building other than a single dwelling must prepare a report each year confirming that every essential safety measure listed for the building has been maintained and is operating to the standard it was installed to. Emergency lighting, exit signage and fire detection are essential safety measures where they are installed. The report has to be kept on the premises and made available to the municipal building surveyor or the fire authority on request.

AS/NZS 3760 sets the interval by environment rather than giving one number for every site. Equipment in an office that is not moved or flexed sits at the long end of the scale, commonly five years, while factories, workshops, commercial kitchens and other areas where leads are dragged or exposed to damage are commonly six months. We set the interval for each area of your site, tag accordingly and maintain the register.

Yes. We carry out both push-button tests and timed operating tests on residual current devices to AS/NZS 3760, record the results against each board and circuit, and provide a written register you can hand to an insurer or auditor. Failed devices are quoted for replacement rather than left flagged in a report.

Yes. Most of our commercial work is scheduled for evenings, weekends, early mornings or agreed shutdown periods so trading is not interrupted. After-hours rates apply and are quoted as a separate line so you can weigh the cost against the disruption of working in hours.

It depends on the lease, but the usual split is that the landlord is responsible for base-building services - the main switchboard, common-property distribution, and the essential safety measures the building is required to maintain - while the tenant is responsible for the electrical work inside their own tenancy, including the fit-out and anything added during the lease. We quote with the scope split along that line so each party can be invoiced separately. Check the lease and any make-good clause before committing; this is general information, not legal advice.

No. Melbourne Power Group is not an ACMA-registered cabler, so we do not install structured data or communications cabling. We install the power, containment, pathways and comms room supply, including dedicated circuits and UPS, and coordinate with a registered cabler for the data and comms cabling itself.

Yes, and it is most of what we do in retail and hospitality. We price and sequence the electrical scope in stages against the builder's programme, flag the long-lead items - switchboards, metering and supply upgrades - at quoting rather than at installation, and work out of hours where the programme has slipped. Handover includes the Certificate of Electrical Safety and the documentation a landlord will ask for.