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Window to export innovation
Two Tasmanian businesses have developed an innovative solution to automate
the window sashes in Victoria’s Government House ballroom.
SENATOR CLAIRE
CHANDLER
Liberal Senator for Tasmania
BUDGET DELIVERS FOR
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The ballroom is larger
than that in Buckingham
Palace and all 16 giant
double hung windows are
six metres above the floor,
making it difficult to open
and close.
With the ballroom
used year-round for
social events, air flow
can be reduced with large
crowds, making the room
uncomfortable.
Tasmanian companies
Sealasah and Travtech have
worked together to develop
an automated solution
while retaining the original
elevated windows.
Sealasah director John
Brennan said the company’s
expertise with old wooden
windows meant it was well
COVID-19 Small Business
Energy Support Grant Program round two.
This grant program will assist Tasmanian small businesses
impacted by COVID-19 with their electricity, water and
sewerage costs.
One-off grant payments of $1,000 are available to eligible
businesses in embedded networks, and those businesses who
have not been eligible for the COVID-19 electricity, water
and/or sewerage waiver available from service providers from
1 April 2020.
The guidelines have been expanded to ensure even more
people can benefit, with sole traders who don’t employ staff
now able to apply.
Assessments will commence as applications are submitted
and each application will be assessed in order of receipt.
Applications are now open and will close at 12pm,
Monday 21 December 2020.
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The giant
double-hung
window
sashes at
Victoria’s
Government
House.
placed to find a solution
for the Government House
ballroom.
“Our business focus is to
upgrade original wooden
windows and make them
thermally better without
spoiling heritage values,”
Mr Brennan said.
“The draught sealing
system used provides the
smooth sliding Government
House
management
was looking
for and we had to marry
that up with an integrated
electrically operated
mechanism.”
Peter Fewkes from
Hobart company
Travtech then designed
and developed a process
to modify the window
mechanisms to ensure the
whole ballroom could be
completed.
It’s not the first time the
companies have combined
on a heritage window
project.
“Two years ago we
designed and built a world
first system, called the
“Sash Crab” which allows
work to be undertaken
safely on windows at height
without scaffold, ropes and
towers,” Mr Brennan said.
“It has been an honour
for our small Tasmanian
business to be working on
such a beautiful building as
the Victorian Government
House.
“Given what has
happened recently with
the economy it’s even
more important for Tassie
to develop and export its
expertise.”
