ska 1 infrastructure element australia
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SKA 1 Infrastructure Element Australia
SKA Engineering Meeting Presentation – 8th October 2013
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1. Contents
• Introduction
• Management Structures
• Overview
• Work Breakdown Structure
• Proposal Review
• Prototypes
• Challenges & Opportunities
• Questions
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2. Introduction
• Presenters
• Stephen Negus (Aurecon) – Project Director
• Antony Schinckel (CSIRO) – ASKAP Director
• Shandip Abeywickrema (Aurecon) – Lead Subsystem Engineer
• Consortium Members
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3. Management Structure
SKAO
Aurecon CSIRO
Horizon Power(Power Supply)
RZQ Solutions(RFI Shielding)
Rider Levett
Bucknell(Estimating)
European
organisations(Specialist power studies TBC)
INFRA SA
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3. Management Structure
Project
Manager
Rebecca
Wheadon
SKAO DIICCSRTE
Consortium
Lead
Michelle
Storey
Project
Director
Stephen Negus
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4. Overview
• Infrastructure to support other elements of SKA1
• Includes:
• Roads, buildings, power generation and distribution, reticulation,
vehicles
• Proposed extensive re-use of existing MRO infrastructure,
Pawsey Centre and MSF
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4. Overview
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4. Overview
BoolardyStation
- 346,000 hectare
(3,460 sq km)
MRO
– 12,000 hectare
(120 sq km)
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4. Overview – MRO
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4. Overview – MRO Control Bld800 sq metres, RFI shielded,
Geothermally cooled
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4. Overview – ASKAP
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4. Overview – ASKAP
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4. Overview – ASKAP fibres
- 7776 fibres as ribbons (12 fibre)
- Waveguide-beyond-cutoff
Penetration
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4. Overview – MWA
128 16 element tiles
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4. Overview – MSF
MRO Support Facility, Geraldton
- offices and laboratories
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4. Overview – Pawsey
1,000 sq metres
- Cray supercomputers (ASKAP, MWA, other)
- SGI hierarchical storage and tape system
- Multi 10 Gb channels to MRO
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4. Overview – configuration (?)
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4. Overview
External Interfaces• Determination of cost cap (SKAO)
• Telescope Foundations to suit telescope (LFAA and Dish)
• Power, reliability and redundancy requirements (CSP, SDP, LFAA, Dish, SaDT, TM, SAT)
• Number of racks required (CSP)
• Communications and RFI design to onsite standards (SKAO)
• Site occupational requirements of other work packages to determine construction camp, water, sanitation, vehicle etc. (CSP, SDP, LFAA, Dish, SaDT)
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5. Work Breakdown Structure
Level 4 WBS Sub-Elements
• Infrastructure Engineering
Management
• Infrastructure System
Engineering
• Infrastructure Site Monitoring
• Infrastructure Power
• Infrastructure Access
• Infrastructure Water &
Sanitation
• Infrastructure Buildings
• Infrastructure Telescope
Foundations
• Infrastructure Communications
• Infrastructure Vehicles
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5.1 Work Breakdown Structure
Infrastructure Engineering Management
• Work Included
• Coordination of all project progress activities (Aurecon)
• Project plan
• Risk register
• Financial management plan
• Resource allocation plan
• Reporting system
• Work Excluded
• N/A
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5.2 Work Breakdown Structure
Infrastructure System Engineering• Work Included
• Identification and implementation of systems engineering principles• Create SEMP
• Interface Management
• Performance Budgets
• Verification
• Configuration Control
• Hazard analysis logistics
• Work Excluded• N/A
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5.3 Work Breakdown Structure
Infrastructure Site Monitoring
• Work Included
• Design of equipment and supporting analysis infrastructure (CSIRO)
• Monitoring, analysis and reporting of site parameters
• RFI
• Troposheric stability
• Weather parameters such
as wind, temperature and humidity
• Work Excluded
• N/A
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Infrastructure Site Monitoring
• One monitoring station at each site essential
• INFRA AUS has current experience and designs available for
equipment to monitor
• Most cost effective solution to utilise instrumentation that is
already deployed for review and reporting
• Possible solution COTS product based RFI monitoring system,
RF-over-fibre data feed to receiver
6.3 Proposal Review
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5.4 Work Breakdown Structure
Infrastructure Power• Work Included
• Provision of all power needs at all the SKA facilities
• Review Power Generation supply options for lifetime of SKA
• Provide whole of life analysis of generation options
• Design of power reticulation network
• Design of power filtering and UPS
• Design review and reporting to ensure compliance with the RFI emissions specifications
• Assessment of renewable power options
• Work Excluded• N/A
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Infrastructure Power
• MRO, MSF and Pawsey
• Interdependency of design with RFI implications
• Opportunity to collaborate with a number of potential European
partners
• Assumed that minimisation of power consumption will be an
important consideration for other Consortia
6.4 Proposal Review
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5.5 Work Breakdown Structure
Infrastructure Access
• Work Included
• Design and specification of access roads and tracks
• Design and specification of airstrip
• Design and specification of signage and control for construction and operation
• Work Excluded
• N/A
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Infrastructure Access
• Cost-benefit analysis of upgrade to
existing main access road to MRO
• Roads designed on a ‘fit for usage
criteria’
6.5 Proposal Review
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5.6 Work Breakdown Structure
Infrastructure Water & Sanitation
• Work Included
• Design all water and sanitation services for construction and maintenance of SKA
• Work Excluded
• Drinking water supplies
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5.7 Work Breakdown Structure
Infrastructure Buildings• Work Included
• Design of all buildings to house equipment and personnel for SKA
• Includes first aid centre, warehouse space as required, offices, dormitories, canteens, fuel station and garage/maintenance facility, buildings that house computers, networking equipment, data storage and power
• Design of air-conditioning as well as generation of specific cooling mediums for the specialist equipment
• HV and LV building electrical engineering
• Building services engineering
• Electrical power distribution
• RUPS, UPS and Generator back up
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5.7 Work Breakdown Structure
Infrastructure Buildings (Continued)• Work Included
• Fire engineering
• Acoustics
• Structural engineering
• Civil engineering
• Architecture
• RF Shielding of the building
• RF Emissions management
• Work Excluded
• N/A
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Infrastructure Buildings
• All constructions necessary to house the equipment and
personnel of the SKA
• Careful consideration is to be taken with the construction of RF
shielded buildings
• Could include works to MRO, Boolardy homestead, MSF and
Pawsey
• Expectation to reuse existing infrastructure
• Temporary construction camp to be provided
6.7 Proposal Review
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5.8 Work Breakdown Structure
Infrastructure Telescope Foundations
• Work Included
• Design foundations for SKA Low and SKA Survey
• Work Excluded
• N/A
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Infrastructure Telescope
Foundations
• The foundations necessary to
support LFAA and Dish
• Extensive experience to be
carried forward from ASKAP
• Detailed design (Stage 2)
following confirmation on
the design criteria and
performance specifications
from other WP
6.8 Proposal Review
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5.9 Work Breakdown Structure
Infrastructure Communications
• Work Included
• Design telephony and other communications onsite at all locations of SKA
• Work Excluded
• N/A
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Infrastructure Communications
• Includes the provision of communications within the SKA site
and to the outside world (e.g. telephony or other
communications)
• Liaise with SaDT on possibility of sharing optic fibre
• EMC taskforce guidelines required
6.9 Proposal Review
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5.10 Work Breakdown Structure
Infrastructure Vehicles
• Work Included
• Includes all dedicated SKA on site vehicles for construction and maintenance phases
• Review procurement methodology options
• Identify other vehicle requirements such as cranes, EWP and drill rigs during construction and maintenance (input from AIV)
• Determine vehicle whole of life maintenance and upgrade requirements for SKA
• Work Excluded
• N/A
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Infrastructure Vehicles
• All dedicated SKA on site vehicles that may be necessary during
construction and for maintenance and support of the facility
• Assessments will be made of the vehicle usage proposed during
construction and operation phases
• Maintenance requirements of other consortia will be
considered
6.10 Proposal Review
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7. Prototypes
• INFRA AUS will design infrastructure to suit other consortia
prototypes
• Dish antenna foundation
• Possibly LFAA antenna foundation
• Possibly monitoring equipment
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8. Challenges & Opportunities
• ICDs from SKAO for other consortia inputs to be sufficiently
detailed to permit INFRA Aus to carry out scope
• Re-use of facilities
• Cable trenching solutions
• Cost effective power supply solutions
• Cost effective foundations design solutions
• Capex vs. Opex
• Alternatives to achieving performance requirements of codes
and standards
• More bang for your buck!
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9. Thank you and Questions