01 - What We Do

Eight capabilities. One TSA.

Drapes & Accessories→ Soft goods, FR treatment, hire fleet. Sets, Scenery & Props→ Scenic builds, props, set hardware. Lifting & Rigging→ Chain, pile & drum hoists, controllers, consumables. Production Engineering→ Production management, design, custom kit. Venue Engineering & Installation→ Fit-outs, integration, upgrades. Dance & Studio Equipment→ Sprung floors, barres, mirrors, vinyl. Compliance & Service→ Inspections, certificates, callouts. Hire & Touring→ Calendar-driven kit. National coverage.
Products
Services
Drapes & Accessories Soft goods, supplied and supported. Drapes, tracks, FR treatment and hire fleet from our in-house workshop. Theatre-grade soft goods, engineered, FR-treated and serviced under TSA.
Services
Sets, Scenery & Props Built in-house. Toured nationally. Set construction, prop fabrication, museum and gallery fit-out and exhibition builds from our dedicated workshop. Concept to strike, with the engineering paperwork to back it.
Products
Services
Lifting & Rigging Rated gear. Stocked and serviced here. EXE Rise and Ace chain hoists, TSA pile and Hercules drum hoists, Atlas controllers, full consumables range. Design, supply, install, service, recertify.
Services
Production Engineering When off-the-shelf stops working. Production management, technical design and drafting, custom fabrication and cue-driven motion control. The technical side of your show - managed, designed, built and run.
Services
Venue Engineering & Installation Fit-out to commission, one team. Venue fit-outs, system installation, integration and safety upgrades. From new-build PACs to retrofit refurbishments. Engineered, documented, signed off.
Products
Dance & Studio Equipment Made for the joints that depend on it. Sprung floors, Tarkett performance vinyl, ballet barres, studio mirrors, tap and sports flooring. Measured, manufactured and installed to the room.
Inspections & programmes
Specialist inspections
Compliance & Service The paperwork your insurer asks for. Service & Inspection Programme, Venue Systems Health Check, electrical testing, emergency callouts. Defensible documentation, on schedule.
Services
Hire & Touring Calendar-driven kit. National coverage. Drape hire, hoist hire, touring packages. The same kit you'd buy, available on a calendar. Picked, prepped, shipped, collected.
02 - Industries

Eleven industries. One TSA.

Theatres & Performing Arts Centres Lyric houses, regional PACs, repertory venues. Long-cycle compliance, dark-week installs. Schools & Education Term-break windows, school-budget cycles, training programmes. Worship Venues Acoustic-sensitive spaces, AV-led production, multi-purpose halls. Stadiums, Convention Centres & Live Events Arena rigging, convention fit-outs, large-format event delivery. AV & Production Hire Companies Trade supply, cross-hire inventory, servicing and specialist support. Touring Productions Tour-ready packages, on-the-road servicing, certified gear. Film, TV & Studios Studio rigging, broadcast support, motion-controlled scenic. Museums & Galleries Permanent galleries, touring exhibitions, heritage recreations, display fabrication. Dance Studios & Companies Sprung floors, ballet barres and studio mirrors, made to the room. Corporate & Conference Venues Conference stages, auditorium AV, corporate event rigging and staging. Government & Civic Venues Council-owned PACs, civic centres, town halls and public venues.
Proof of work Recent Projects Lyric theatres, arenas, museums, schools and studios. The jobs behind the capability, and what we specified, built and signed off on each one.
Hundreds of chain hoist lines fanning out overhead above an arena stage rig.

Rigging Installation - TSA installs stage rigging systems into existing venues Australia wide: new bars and hoists into an existing grid, complete fly-system and grid packages, and replacements for ageing rigging - engineered, load-tested and documented

Lifting & rigging · Installation

New rigging, into a venue that already works.

Bars, hoists, grids and fly systems installed into your building - load paths verified, terminations certified, every hoist load-tested and handed over with the evidence. We've got the ceiling. You've got the show.

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Trusted on stages and in venues around Australia
Alder Construction Anglican Church Grammar School Annie Apollo Property Group Arts Queensland Back to the Future Beetlejuice Brisbane Powerhouse Brisbane Showgrounds Built Cairns Convention Centre Canberra Theatre Centre Capricorn Rigging Crossroads Live Crown Resorts Disney Diversified Edith Cowan University Encore Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre Griffith University Hamilton HOTA Home of the Arts Ipswich Civic Centre Lendlease The Lion King Livingstone Christian College Logan City Council Mackay Regional Council Melbourne Olympic Park Michael Cassel Group Microhire MJ The Musical Moulin Rouge Mueller College Multiplex National Gallery of Victoria Queensland University of Technology Res-X Universal Studios University of Adelaide University of Melbourne WA Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries Wicked Wollongong City Council
What we install

One system,
done properly.

Bars, hoists, grids and fly systems into buildings that already work. Three ways the job usually arrives - each engineered against your existing structure, installed by our own crew and load-tested before handover.

Crew in hi-vis beside a chain hoist and truss on an arena floor, with hoist lines hanging overhead
Chain hoist and truss, ready to fly

New bars & hoists into an existing grid

  • Motorised bars
  • Chain hoists
  • Pile hoists

Add motorised bars, chain hoists or pile hoists to the grid you already have - engineered against the existing structure, not bolted on hopefully.

A long counterweight fly rail with a wall of line sets rising beside a stage
A counterweight fly rail

Complete fly-system & grid packages

  • Counterweight
  • Motorised
  • Dead-hung

A full fly system or pipe grid designed, supplied, installed and commissioned as one engineered system - counterweight, motorised or dead-hung.

A bank of rope fly lines running over sheaves along a stage wall
Rope lines along a fly wall

Replacements & upgrades of ageing rigging

  • Like for like
  • Motorised upgrade
  • Load-tested

Rigging that has aged out is replaced like for like or upgraded to motorised - load-tested, certified and back in service around your programming.

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EXE Rise hoists commissioned on one ceiling
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Of WLL: every girder clamp tested and certificated
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Individual certificate with every load-tested hoist
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Engineered, installed & certified Australia wide
Technicians fitting a chain hoist motor to a steel beam bracket in a roof void
Hoist install Fitting a chain hoist motor to a steel beam in a roof void
Rigging installation

The team that engineers it
installs it.

TSA installs stage rigging into existing venues Australia wide: new bars and hoists into your grid, complete fly-system and grid packages, and replacements for rigging that has aged out. The team that engineers the system installs it, so load paths are verified against the building steel before anything goes up.

This is the single-system door: one rigging system into a building that already works. Delivering every system at once, as a fit-out or refurbishment? That is venue engineering installation.

Systems we design, install and commission

  • Pile-hoist lighting bars on multiple wire lines
  • Grouped chain-hoist box-truss systems, a load cell per hoist
  • Dead-hung pipe grids on steel-wire droppers
  • Skytrack
  • Studio and TV hoists

Hardware behind it

Girder clampsEach tested to 150% of working load limit (WLL), with test certificate and serial number
StandardAS 4991 applied throughout
HoistsLoad-tested, individual certificate valid 12 months
Why it holds

Nothing hangs on a guess.

Engineered, then installed

The drawings walk on site with the people who drew them - no handover gap between the desk and the grid.

Load paths verified

Every point is traced from batten to building steel and checked against what the structure is rated to carry - UDL along the bar, point loads at the droppers, the busiest hoist in a multi-point lift.

A documented handover

Terminations are made and checked to standard, every hoist is load-tested and issued its own certificate, and the handover pack lands in your asset register - evidence your venue, your insurer and your next technical manager can rely on.

Around your season

We plan the work into dark days, off-season windows and overnight calls, so the install lands without costing you a performance.

How it runs

How the install runs.

One crew carries the job from survey to sign-off, the method we run on whole-venue projects. Five steps, no handover gaps.

  1. Step 01

    Site survey & load-path check

    We walk the venue and trace every proposed point back to structure. What the steel can carry decides what the rig can do.

  2. Step 02

    Engineering & documentation

    In-house drafting turns the survey into drawings, load schedules and the compliance trail, with formal design review before anything is fabricated.

  3. Step 03

    Supply & fabrication

    Hoists, bars, clamps and terminations from the stocked, rated range: individually tested, with test certificates and serial numbers, fabricated under QA oversight.

  4. Step 04

    Install & certified terminations

    Our own crew installs to the drawings. Terminations are made and verified to standard; the load path stays honest from batten to building steel.

  5. Step 05

    Load test & documented handover

    Load-tested, certified and handed over with as-installed documentation and per-asset certificates, filed to your asset register.

EXE chain hoists hanging through an opening in a ceiling grid
Ceiling grid Chain hoists set into a ceiling opening
Numbered fly lines hanging in a tall fly tower above a timber stage floor
Fly tower Numbered line sets above the stage
Technician on a stepladder working on a tension-wire grid under lights
Grid work A technician working at a tension grid
Crew in hi-vis beside a hooded EXE chain hoist and truss on an arena floor
Arena crew Chain hoists and truss on the floor, ready to fly
In the venue

Where the install
sits.

A performing arts centre in section. Select a numbered pin to see what an installation covers, from the grid down to the control room.

Hundreds of chain hoist lines fanning down to a stage frame in an arena
On the job

The team that engineers it installs it.

Arena hoist array Chain hoist lines fanning down to a stage frame

Australia wide

Engineered, installed, certified. Australia wide.

One crew from survey to sign-off, load-tested and documented at handover.

Raynok Micro G2 touch controller held in a technician's hand beside a hoist control rack.
Raynok control Cairns Convention Centre
An EXE Rise 1000 kg chain hoist rigged overhead with crew behind.
EXE Rise hoist 36-axis array
In the wings

Cairns Convention Centre

We designed, installed and commissioned a 36-axis EXE Rise hoist array, 42 m of five-chord box truss and Raynok control in the Great Hall.

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Proof in the ceiling

Engineered, installed,
signed off.

At Cairns Convention Centre we designed, installed and commissioned a 36-axis EXE Rise hoist array, 42 m of five-chord box truss and Raynok control in the Great Hall.

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FAQ

Questions
about the install.

If your question isn't here, ask - one call and we'll tell you exactly where you stand.

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Yes. Equipment you already own is installed once it passes verification: we check ratings, condition and fit with the load path first. Every hoist we install is load-tested and certified, whoever supplied it. Anything that does not meet the standard is flagged before it is in the ceiling, not after.
Engineering verification and certification of the load-bearing elements is part of the install. Every electric chain hoist is load-tested and issued an individual certificate, valid for 12 months, signed by a Competent Inspection Officer. If the building structure needs independent sign-off, we coordinate the structural engineer, so you get one documented compliance trail.
It depends on the system. A new bar or a pair of hoists into an existing grid takes days; a complete fly-system or grid package is a planned program of weeks. The survey and engineering phase sets real dates before work starts, usually staged around dark days and off-season windows.
No. The site survey and load-path check is step one, and our in-house drafting produces the engineering documentation. Already hold a structural report? We work to it and fill the gaps. If not, we coordinate the consultant. Nothing is installed until the load path is verified.
An as-installed pack, scoped to the system and confirmed with you before handover. It typically includes:
  • Drawings
  • Load schedules
  • Test results
  • Persistent asset IDs, filed in your asset register
It is the evidence trail for your insurer, auditor and due diligence, and it protects warranty cover by showing the system was installed and tested to the maker's specification.
Rigging installation is the single-system service: one rigging system (bars, hoists, a grid, a fly system) into an existing building. Venue engineering installation is the whole-venue service: a fit-out or refurbishment delivering every stage system at once, from new-build PACs to full retrofits. Same team, same standards; the difference is the size of the door.
Get it up there properly

Book the
install.

Tell us the system and the season. We'll survey the venue, verify the load paths, and come back with real dates - installed, load-tested and certified around your programming.

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  • We survey. Every point traced back to structure.
  • We engineer. Drawings, load schedules and design review.
  • We install. Our own crew, load-tested and handed over.
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