Infrastructure Services
Our established infrastructure practice, delivering since 1997.
Capabilities
Sato has built infrastructure for nearly three decades: roads and pavements, earth dams and irrigation, water supply schemes, public and academic buildings, and the bulk metering that lets a utility account for what it distributes. The clients have been federal and state ministries, river basin development authorities, water corporations, universities and international development partners.
We own and operate our own plant, including a borehole drilling rig, so we mobilise without waiting on hired equipment and keep control of quality and programme on site.
Infrastructure is rarely one discipline. A water supply scheme is a civil works contract, a mechanical installation and an electrical commissioning at the same time, and we plan and programme it as one job. The four types below are how we describe the work — they are not how we divide it.
Building & Construction
Site investigation, design and construction for academic, administrative, laboratory, residential and office buildings, from foundations to fit-out, and the conversion or renovation of buildings already in use.
Water Resources Development & Management
Earth dams, irrigation, intake works, treatment and distribution, boreholes drilled with our own rig, and the river training, drainage and flood and erosion control that protect them.
Water resources is where the four disciplines meet most often, and where Sato's longest client relationships are — river basin development authorities, state water corporations and development programmes, some of them for over twenty years.
Civil Engineering & Road Construction
Site investigation, design and construction for roads, pavements and drainage, with the earthworks and erosion control that keep them standing. Civil work is the structure everything else is fixed to, and it usually arrives with an electrical and a mechanical package attached.
New build and rehabilitation both: much of Sato's record is work carried out on assets that were still in use.
Electrical & Mechanical Engineering
Power distribution, control and instrumentation for buildings, pumping stations and industrial sites — switchgear and motor control centres down to the meter on the wall — and the pumps, pipework, plant and fabrication behind them, installed and maintained.
Electrical work is the discipline the firm was founded on, and it is commissioned before it is handed over. The mechanical capability was built in Sato's own fleet and workshop, where much of the fabrication is still done.
Solutions
What we deliver for a client, across the four types. A contract usually draws on several of these, and they are managed as one programme by one team.
Planning, design and feasibility
Survey, site investigation, hydrogeology and engineering design, with the cost estimation that turns a brief into something that can be tendered and built. Delivered for our own contracts and as a service in its own right.
Construction and rehabilitation
New build and the repair of infrastructure already in service — roads and pavements, buildings, dams, drainage and channel works. Rehabilitation is a different problem from construction: it has to be programmed around an asset people are still using, and much of Sato's record is exactly that.
Water supply and resource management
Source to tap as one scheme rather than four contracts: intake, treatment, storage, pumping and distribution, with groundwater development where surface water is not the answer. Delivered for river basin development authorities, state water corporations and development programmes.
Power and electro-mechanical systems
Distribution, switchgear, pump control, instrumentation, standby generation, and solar where grid supply cannot be relied on — including solar-powered boreholes. Installed, commissioned and handed over as working plant, not as equipment on a site.
Metering, monitoring and asset data
Bulk, electromagnetic and prepayment metering, and the instrumentation that tells an operator what an asset is actually doing. Sato has supplied and installed metering at scale for water corporations and development programmes; what it measures is what makes loss reduction and planned maintenance possible instead of guesswork.
Maintenance and operational support
Planned and corrective maintenance of plant, pumping stations and building services, with the workshop, fabrication and spares capacity behind it. An asset that is not maintained is eventually rebuilt, which costs more than both.
Backed by Sato
Whichever service delivers your project, the same plant, people and systems stand behind it.
Planning infrastructure work?
Tell us the scope and we will show you comparable work and the team that would deliver it.