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Thorntek Electrical, Level 2 ASP
EC 283038C + Level 2 ASP 4869 + Ausgrid & Endeavour accredited

Public lighting + Darling Harbour, Sydney + 2025

Australian National Maritime Museum boardwalk power & lighting

Thorntek delivered the power and lighting upgrade for the harbour edge boardwalk precinct at the Australian National Maritime Museum in Darling Harbour, a working heritage site where the historic vessels had to stay powered the whole way through.

Floodlit harbour edge boardwalk and terrace at the Australian National Maritime Museum at night

DALI + C-Bus

Lighting control

Cathodic protection

Seawall

Vessels live

Backup generator

The job

This is a live, public, heritage site on Sydney Harbour, so the work had to happen without taking the museum or its vessels offline. The historic submarine and destroyer moored at the wharf stayed powered on a backup generator while the wharf cabling was replaced underneath them.

The lighting was designed in house and runs on a DALI control system with C-Bus relays, so the precinct lighting can be set, zoned and adjusted across the boardwalk and the terrace. Working on the harbour edge also meant marine grade detailing and cathodic protection to the seawall to stand up to the saltwater environment.

On site
Illuminated curved timber terrace and shade structure at the Maritime Museum waterfront after darkThe Australian National Maritime Museum lit at night, Darling Harbour, Sydney

The work behind this project: Level 2 ASP works, underground services and switchboard upgrades. See all delivered projects.

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