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Essential Connections: Changes to the Standard Construction Schedule

Important Changes to the Standard Construction Schedule

As you are aware, Essential Energy is streamlining its customer experience and introducing the Essential Connections Portal powered by Salesforce. It will provide a seamless end-to-end connections process to deliver a great connection experience for our people, partners and customers.

We are updating our Design Submission standards in parallel to help streamline the certification process, enhance design submission quality and automate activities downstream.

These important changes will be implemented from Drop 2 Go Live.

What does this mean for me?

To support our updated design standards, we have created a Microsoft Excel template file to standardise design construction schedules. The structure of this template is similar to our existing formatting requirements, with two additional columns – Status and Asset Type. Our Design Submission policy CEOM7001 will be updated to reflect this new format soon.


The Status and Asset type will auto populate from the Standard Drawing Number where possible, or users can select from dropdown menus.

We have also made it easy to convert the construction schedule in the template to a visually suitable format for inclusion on a construction plan with an ‘Export to Construction Plan’ button within the template.

Construction Schedule example as presented on a Construction Plan

What if I am a Neara user?

Neara users can simply export the construction schedule to csv file and submit with the design. These construction schedules are automatically converted to our standardised template. Users can also use our tool to convert Neara construction schedules into a visually suitable format for construction plans.

Where can I find out more?

We will be sharing a Quick Reference Guide with more details shortly.

What do you need to do?

  1. Communicate this information to relevant members of your organisation.

Further Information

If you need further information, please email aspinfo@essentialenergy.com.au.