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.
Chain hoists and box truss rigged over a concert hall stage with a lit wall behind.

Venue Installation and Commissioning - TSA installs, load-tests and commissions whole-venue stage systems to a documented handover, Australia wide

Venue engineering · Installation & commissioning

Installed by the team that engineered it.

Hoists, bars, grids, track and control set in place, load-tested and commissioned to a documented handover - sequenced around your calendar, Australia wide. We've got your venue.

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Stage systems installed for venues around Australia
HOTA Home of the Arts Canberra Theatre Centre Brisbane Powerhouse Ipswich Civic Centre Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre Arts Queensland National Gallery of Victoria WA Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries Griffith University University of Melbourne Queensland University of Technology Cairns Convention Centre Melbourne Olympic Park
How we plug in

Three ways the
install lands.

A whole staging environment, the stage-machinery scope inside a builder's programme, or one system into a working building - the same discipline covers all three. Wherever we plug in, one party owns the interfaces, the load paths and the handover.

A black-draped proscenium hall with line arrays and a lighting rig over a tiered auditorium
A whole staging environment, set in place

Full system install

  • Hoists and bars
  • Grids and track
  • Acoustics and control

The whole staging environment - hoists, bars, grids, track, acoustics and control - designed and delivered as one programme under one party.

A technician fitting a hoist to a steel beam in a roof void
Stage machinery fitted into the building structure

Package in a builder's programme

  • Head contract
  • Documented interfaces

TSA takes the stage-machinery scope under your head contract, with the interfaces to the building trades documented and owned.

Chain hoists mounted to steel in a ceiling void beside ductwork
Hoists set into a ceiling void

Single system, working venue

  • One system
  • Live calendar

One system added around a live calendar. A rigging system going into an existing grid? Rigging Installation covers the detail.

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Certificate issued with every load-tested chain hoist
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Installed and commissioned Australia wide
Chain hoists and box truss rigged over a stage with purple-lit acoustic panels behind
Hoists and truss Set in place over a stage
What venue installation is

Set in place.
Proven under load.

Venue installation is TSA setting a building's stage machinery in place and proving it, by the team that engineered it. One party carries the programme from site survey to sign-off, Australia wide: one relationship for your venue, not several vendor interfaces.

What goes in

  • Hoists and lighting bars
  • Pipe grids
  • Curtain track
  • Acoustic banners
  • The control that runs them

Delivered as one environment

  • Cairns Convention Centre Great Hall: a 36-axis hoist array with 42 metres of box truss
  • A multi-studio broadcast facility: TV hoists, pile-hoist lighting bars, pipe grids and acoustic systems

This page covers whole-venue installs, fit-out to commission. A single rigging system into an existing grid? See Rigging Installation. Either way, you are already running a season, a term or a builder's programme: the install is engineered to land around it.

Load-tested at commissioning Documented handover Operators trained One accountable party 12-month hoist certificates
Where it earns its keep

Four jobs, one install team.

Set by its engineers

The engineers who drew the load paths set the hoists, fly the bars and terminate the track - nothing is re-interpreted on site by a stranger to the design.

Sequenced around your season

A live season, a school term or a builder's programme is a constraint we engineer for - the dates are agreed before the first case rolls in.

One party, every trade

Lighting, audio, video and building trades all reach the same ceiling - and the interfaces between them are owned by one accountable party.

A handover you can run on

Documentation, certificates and operators trained to competency on the specific system - the building runs its own environment from the first show.

How it runs

How the install runs.

One programme from survey to sign-off. The clashes surface on paper, where they cost a redraw - not during bump-in - and the dates hold because they were engineered, not hoped for.

  1. Step 01

    Site survey & early coordination

    Load paths, interfaces and structural requirements resolved on paper before anything is fabricated - clashes surface in design, where they cost nothing.

  2. Step 02

    Engineering & drafting

    In-house drafting with coordinated consultant engagement, taken through formal design-review milestones before fabrication begins.

  3. Step 03

    Supply & controlled fabrication

    Systems built under quality-assurance oversight, with engineering verification and certification of every load-bearing element.

  4. Step 04

    Install & integration

    Hoists set, bars flown, track and control integrated as one environment - the coordination across lighting, audio, video and building trades carried for you.

  5. Step 05

    Commissioning & documented handover

    Load-tested, certified, documented and signed off - then your operators trained to competency on the system they now own.

Technician adjusting curtain track pulleys above a cream drape in a school hall
Track install Curtain track pulleys adjusted from a work platform
Racks of hoist controllers with TSA branding and lit indicators backstage
Control racks Hoist controllers racked backstage
Two technicians working under flown lighting bars in a white studio
Studio bars Battens at working height in a white studio
EXE chain hoist on truss beneath a fly tower catwalk above auditorium seating
Hoist on truss Beneath a fly tower catwalk
In the venue

Every system we install, in place.

The systems we set in place, shown in a working venue. Select a numbered pin to see what we install there, then open its page.

Lighting bar rigged beside a tiered auditorium with timber-edged seating
On the job

Set in place. Proven under load.

Lighting bar in place A rigged bar beside a tiered auditorium

Australia wide

One programme, survey to sign-off. Australia wide.

One party carries the interfaces, the load paths and the handover.

Raynok Micro G2 touch controller held in a technician's hand beside a hoist control rack.
Raynok control Cairns Convention Centre
A technician patching cables into a numbered road-case control rack.
Control rack patched and numbered
In the wings

Cairns Convention Centre

A 36-axis hoist array over a convention-centre Great Hall, engineered, installed, load-tested and handed over by one team.

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Proof, installed

Venues running
on our installs.

A 36-axis hoist array over a convention-centre Great Hall. A permanent show past 4,000 performances. A tertiary media centre delivered grid by grid. The installs hold because the handover does.

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about venue installs.

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The building's stage systems installed, load-tested and commissioned to a documented handover:
  • Hoists and lighting bars
  • Pipe grids
  • Curtain track
  • Acoustic systems
  • The control layer that runs them
Delivery runs from site survey and engineering through controlled fabrication, install, integration and commissioning, carried by one accountable team. Operators are then trained to competency on the specific system.
Bring it to the site survey. Every piece is verified against the load paths and standards it must live under before it is hung. TSA-engineered systems are installed as designed; existing or customer-supplied equipment is assessed first, and anything that cannot be verified is flagged before it goes up, not after.
Yes. Installs are sequenced around a live season, a school term or a builder's programme, with the staging agreed before work starts. The building keeps operating while the work lands.
Engineering verification and certification of the load-bearing elements is part of delivery, backed by in-house drafting and coordinated consultant engagement through formal design reviews. At commissioning, installed electric chain hoists are load-tested and issued individual certificates valid for 12 months; the commissioning records join the handover pack.
A documented handover, including:
  • The engineering behind the load-bearing elements
  • Assumptions, interfaces and responsibilities recorded through design and installation
  • Commissioning and load-test records
  • Per-asset equipment certificates
It is the pack your certifier, insurer and operators rely on, and the start of the asset register your venue carries forward.
As long as the programme agreed at survey: a single-space system and a multi-studio fit-out are different jobs, so there is no one honest figure. What is fixed is the method: scope confirmed at survey, the sequence engineered around your calendar, and the dates committed before work begins.
Deliver, signed off

Book the
install.

Tell us the venue, the systems and the dates. One team installs, load-tests and commissions to a documented handover - and trains your operators before we leave.

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  • We survey. Load paths and interfaces resolved on paper.
  • We engineer. Drafting through formal design review.
  • We commission. Load-tested, documented, operators trained.
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