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.
A large arena rig with a hanging LED screen, chain hoist lines and crew working on the floor.

Capability audits - an engineered assessment of what your venue can do today and what it would take to do more, ending in a prioritised upgrade roadmap

Venue engineering · Capability audits

Know what your venue can do. And what it could.

A capability audit is an engineered assessment of what your venue can do today - and what it would take to do more. One team walks the building, maps the stage systems you actually have, and hands you a prioritised upgrade roadmap you can plan and budget against.

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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
Where this starts

Start with evidence,
not a guess.

The audit is the scoping step before a fit-out, refurbishment or upgrade: what can this building do, and what would it take to do more?

An EXE chain hoist on truss beneath a fly tower catwalk above auditorium seating
What hangs above the stage, on its structure

Planning a refurb

  • What the building can carry
  • Before anything is drawn

Start with what the building can carry, so the brief your architect works to is grounded before anything is drawn.

Truss and hanging lines above a concert hall stage with lit acoustic panels behind
Truss and lines hanging over a hall

Inheriting a venue

  • What is hanging
  • What it is rated to do
  • Who can run it

Start with a documented map of what is hanging above your stage, what it is rated to do and who can run it.

A TSA engineer at a workstation with a stage drawing on screen
Capability engineered into the drawings

Scoping a new build

  • Capability on paper
  • Before the first beam

Start with the capability the venue will need, engineered into the drawings before the first beam goes in.

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Concert hall ceiling with a lighting truss and speaker arrays suspended above the balcony seating.
City Recital Hall Truss and speaker arrays over the balcony
What a capability audit is

One documented assessment
of the whole venue.

An engineered assessment of what your venue can do today, and what it would take to do more. We map the stage systems you have - fly systems, rigging, hoists, drapes and track, automation and control - and what they can safely carry, fly and automate. It ends in a prioritised upgrade roadmap. Load paths and interfaces are settled on the drawings, while a fix is still a change to a line.

Fly systems Rigging & grids Automation & control Drapes & track Operations & training
A chain hoist hangs from a truss in front of the auditorium seating.
School theatre EXE chain hoist on truss
Overhead view of a pipe grid and batten rigging system filling a theatre ceiling.
Capitol Theatre Sydney pipe grid and battens overhead
Looking down a fly tower onto a red-curtained proscenium stage, with a rigging height scale on the wall.
Red-curtained proscenium tower view with a rigging height scale
Crew move flight cases across the arena floor beneath rows of hanging chain hoists.
Etihad Arena Abu Dhabi hoist grid at load-in
Why venues start here

Four jobs, one audit.

Before budget commits

Budget conversations go better when they start from an engineered assessment instead of a guess - your systems, their limits and their headroom in one document.

Inheriting a venue

New role, new building, no documentation.

Refurb, scoped first

The building sets the limits before any designer does.

The business case

Boards and councils fund documents, not hunches.

What we audit

What a capability audit covers.

Five steps, one document. The audit covers the stage systems and the structure that carries them - not whole-building compliance - and ends in a roadmap sequenced so you can plan and budget against it.

  1. Step 01

    Systems inventory

    Every hoist, line set, track, grid, drape system and control desk on site - including the kit nobody has paperwork for.

  2. Step 02

    Condition & compliance

    Checked against the standards it should meet, so the roadmap starts from evidence - and flags where certification is due.

  3. Step 03

    Load path & structure

    Load paths, fixing points and supporting structure - the difference between what a bar holds now and what the roof would let you add.

  4. Step 04

    Operations & competency

    How the venue runs day to day and whether the systems match the people - training gaps flagged alongside the hardware.

  5. Step 05

    Upgrade roadmap

    Findings sequenced by priority into a roadmap you can plan and budget against - the document the next project starts from.

The roadmap has delivery doors. Priority items route to venue fit-outs, installation & commissioning, systems integration and safety upgrades, with an asset register to keep the inventory current.

A rigger working on the truss grid high in a theatre fly tower.
Wicked a rigger on the truss grid high in the fly tower
Audit or Health Check?
Capability auditVenue Systems Health Check
AsksWhat can this venue do, and what would it take to do more?Where do my stage systems stand today?
You getA prioritised upgrade roadmapBaseline asset register, condition summary, gap list, prioritised action plan
Looks atStage systems and the structure that carries them: load paths, fixing points, operations, competencyThe systems you already have: condition and servicing gaps
Start here whenPlanning a refurb, inheriting a venue or scoping a new buildAsset condition or service history is unclear
CertificationNot a certificateNot certification: that sits with the Service & Inspection Programme
In the venue

What an audit
walks through.

A capability audit surveys the stage systems and the structure that carries them. Select a numbered pin to see where in a venue like yours it looks.

An overhead lighting truss grid hangs above an empty stage with a central revolve.
On the job

What you have. What it carries. What it would take to do more.

Hadestown truss grid over the stage and revolve
Suspended line-array speakers and lighting truss hanging from ceiling hoists above the hall.
Overhead systems City Recital Hall
Lighting bridge walkway with hoisted speaker boxes beside the balcony rail.
Lighting bridge hoisted speakers
In the wings

City Recital Hall

One technician audited the hoisting and rigging in a single visit, giving the venue a clear asset list to plan replacements from.

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Proof in the building

Capability,
delivered.

The team that assesses your venue engineers and installs the answer: 250+ venues, new-build to retrofit.

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Start the conversation

Tell us the venue.

FAQ

Questions
about capability audits.

If your question is not here, tell us about the venue and we will come back with a straight answer.

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Five things: a systems inventory, a condition and compliance review, a load-path and structural check, an operations and competency review, and a prioritised upgrade roadmap. The audit covers stage systems and the structure that carries them, not whole-building compliance.
A Venue Systems Health Check is the diagnostic: a single-visit review of what you have, ending in a baseline asset register, condition summary, gap list and prioritised action plan. A capability audit is the planning product: the same systems plus the structure that carries them, through a forward lens, ending in a prioritised upgrade roadmap. Neither is a certificate. Grading, a Due-Diligence Level and 12-month hoist certificates come from the Service & Inspection Programme. Many venues run both.
A documented assessment: the systems inventory, the findings from the condition, structural and operations reviews, and a prioritised upgrade roadmap to plan and budget against. Precise enough for your technical manager, clear enough for the board that approves the budget.
Both. In an existing venue the audit surveys the systems in place and the structure around them. On a new build or refurbishment still on paper, the same discipline is applied to the drawings, where changes cost lines on a plan rather than variations on site.
Venue managers and technical managers use it as the working map of the building; boards, councils and finance committees use the roadmap as the evidence for a funding decision.
No. The roadmap is yours and stands on its own: put it to your board, your architect or your preferred contractor. Most venues have us carry the priority items, because the team that audited the building already understands it, but the audit is the scoping step, not a contract for the rest.
The scoping step

Know what your
venue can do.

Tell us the building: what is above the stage, what you inherited, what you are planning. One documented view, one prioritised roadmap.

See our installs →
  • We inventory. Every system on site, with or without paperwork.
  • We assess. Condition, load paths, operations and competency.
  • We roadmap. Findings sequenced so you can plan and budget.
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