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.

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.

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Full system install

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

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Package in a builder's programme

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

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Single system, working venue

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

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 - hoists, lighting bars, pipe grids, curtain track, acoustic banners and control, installed, load-tested and commissioned to a documented handover by the team that engineered them. One party carries the programme from site survey to sign-off, Australia wide, so your venue owns one relationship instead of multiple vendor interfaces.

This page covers whole-venue installs - the complete staging environment, fit-out to commission. For a single rigging system going 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.

It is how a multi-studio broadcast facility took delivery of TV hoists, pile-hoist lighting bars, pipe grids and acoustic systems as one environment, and how the Great Hall at Cairns Convention Centre gained a 36-axis hoist array with 42 metres of box truss. After handover, the relationship is carried by the Venue Systems Health Check and the Service & Inspection Programme.

Load-tested at commissioning Documented handover Operators trained One accountable party 12-month hoist certificates
Survey to sign-off The install sequence, in elevation
02 · PRIMARY STEEL & GRID 01 · SURVEY DATUM 03 · HOISTS SET LOAD-TESTED · CERTIFIED 12 MONTHS 04 · BARS FLOWN 05 · COMMISSIONED

One sequence, one party. Survey datum to commissioning - primary steel, hoists, bars and control set in a programmed order, with dead-hung grids rated by point load at droppers and UDL per metre.

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In-house disciplines: scenic, rigging, automation, drapes, electronics
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Certificate issued with every load-tested chain hoist
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Installed and commissioned Australia wide
Where it earns its keep

Four jobs, one install team.

Set by its engineers Sequenced around your season One party, every trade A handover you can run on
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.

Installation is one door into Venue Engineering - fit-outs, systems integration, safety upgrades and capability audits sit alongside it, and fly systems have their own explainer.

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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The building's stage systems installed, load-tested and commissioned to a documented handover - hoists, lighting bars, pipe grids, curtain track, acoustic systems and 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 of equipment is verified against the load paths and standards it has to live under before it is hung. Systems TSA engineered are installed and commissioned 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 working venue's calendar - a live season, a school term or a builder's programme - with the staging agreed before work starts. The calendar is engineered with the same discipline as the load paths, so 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, and the commissioning records form part of the handover pack.
A documented handover: the engineering behind the load-bearing elements, the assumptions, interfaces and responsibilities recorded through design and installation, commissioning and load-test records, and per-asset equipment certificates. It is the pack your certifier, your insurer and your operators can rely on - and the start of the asset register your venue carries forward.
As long as the programme agreed at survey - one honest figure does not exist, because a single-space system and a multi-studio fit-out are different jobs. What is fixed is how the answer is reached: scope confirmed at survey, the sequence engineered around your calendar, and the dates committed before work begins.
Deliver, signed off

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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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