Water & Waste
$3.5M
Toowoomba Regional Council
Condition Assessment
3-year condition assessment of TRC Water & Waste active and passive network assets to inform the Capital Renewal Program.
Delivered on Country
Projects & Case Studies
UNGANCO has delivered across Queensland with a focus on Water, Local Government, and Indigenous communities.
SCADA
$20M (est.)
Toowoomba Regional Council
SCADA & Telemetry
Panel of Providers established to redesign, procure, and commission the entire TRC SCADA and Telemetry network.
MentorAPM
$4.4M
Torres Cape Indigenous Council Alliance
Cape Resilience
MentorAPM deployed across 7 Indigenous communities under the Preparing Australian Communities Grant. Asset management platform for disaster recovery and works management compliance.
Water Treatment
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Yarrabah Aboriginal Shire Council
Owner's Engineer
Indigenous-led design consultation ensuring local staff needs were embedded in the concept design for water treatment infrastructure.
Asset Management
$420K
Northern Peninsular Area Regional Council
Asset Management
Water demand review across multiple Indigenous communities, Smart Meter deployment, and Strategic Asset Management Plan review for sewer networks.
Community
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Aurukun Aboriginal Shire Council
Valve & Hydrant Refurbishment
Identification and refurbishment of isolation valves and fire hydrants. Funded under Works 4 Queensland, employing local community members.
Case Study
NPARC: AI Condition Assessment vs. Traditional Methods
Northern Peninsula Area Regional Council — remote Jardine River infrastructure condition assessments covering ferry, generator, camp structures, fuel pumps and storage, house, kiosk, shower and laundry, and the water treatment plant.
Measured Result
20× faster, half the cost
MentorLens-driven condition assessment against a traditional consultant-led workflow across the same remote asset base.
On site, capturing an asset takes under a minute per item — a technician walks up with a mobile phone and photographs the asset. MentorLens then generates the full condition assessment report in 2 to 3 minutes.
A traditional consultant-led condition assessment averages around an hour per asset end-to-end once mobilisation, site photo handling, and manual report writing are factored in — with turnaround of a week or more, plus mobilisation costs when using external engineers in a tight labour market.
This isn't about replacing engineers. Qualified review remains critical to the process. It's about doing more with less at a time when an ageing workforce and a looming infrastructure renewal cliff make it hard to keep pace with traditional methods alone.
Field Capability
Beyond the photo: thermal condition surveys
Thermal imaging drone surveys extend condition assessment into what the naked eye can't see — surface temperature differentials that reveal moisture ingress, delamination, electrical hotspots, and other sub-surface anomalies on structures like bridge soffits, roofs, and switchgear.
It's a complement to the MentorLens photo-based workflow shown above, not a replacement — the two data streams review together to give project teams a fuller picture of asset condition.