Beere Electrical Services - Demolition and Redevelopment

Demolition and Redevelopment

"The client advised us that the electricity was off", is no defence in court! We have worked on over a 1,000 projects both isolating and carrying out "reassurance" works. The amount of live electrical equipment located in and on supposedly electrically isolated sites is high. The worst we have ever encountered was 900 amps spread over three 3 phase heads.

What do we do?

• We reduce electrical systems as far back as is possible pending the usually delayed approach by the electrical supply companies.

• We ensure that live areas are clearly marked and that all out going cables from these locations are physically separated from the live equipment - This process we have found prevents your 40 tonne machine pulling 600amp live switchgear through a wall. And the corresponding upset that this is likely to cause the rest of the surrounding area and indeed the unnecessary costs.

• We do this in a structured, controlled and safe manner using method statements and risk assessments and a large dose of common sense.

• Usually we are the first team into buildings for a considerable time and as such our teams are trained to identify, stop and assess risks as diverse as:- asbestos, current occupation by undesirables, fauna, structural issues, gas and any contamination that may be present.

• Our ability to stop and re-evaluate risks as well as our ongoing training, PPE and the equipment available to us means that we have a 100% safety record both for our isolation works and our team safety.

We use a very simple, bullet proof traffic light system when identifying electrical equipment on site:
Fluorescent RED paint means STOP! Live equipment or cables.
Fluorescent GREEN paint means GO! Safe to remove.
No paint defaults to LIVE

This system is ideal as it can be easily conveyed to persons who may be unable to read or to whom English may not be their first language.

Once electrical systems are reduced back to the suppliers head, allowing basic soft stripping to proceed, we either pass the details to the client so that they can request termination or utilise our contacts within the supply companies to fast track the removal and pot ending process.

How big? How small?

We have isolated hospitals, schools, colleges, MOD barracks, individual floors in multi tenanted buildings, bungalows, high rise blocks of flats, buildings adjacent to retained buildings, buildings containing high risks such as asbestos, biohazards, occupied buildings and hotels.

We have been used on a number of occasions to isolate buildings because the clients own electricians don’t have the equipment, knowledge or the ability to get the job done safely, nor are they prepared to put their name on the correct paperwork to satisfy the Safety (CDM) Coordinators.

We are always up for a challenge - what have you got for us?

Distance?

We have worked in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Liverpool, but our main work area is the South of England. We will work anywhere in the UK however an allowance for overnight stays or travelling time may be incurred for working further than two hours’ drive (one way) from our HQ in Lightwater, Surrey.

Services?

• PAT testing your on site portable equipment (required every 3 months)

• Install the electrical systems for your site welfare and Bunkabin setups

• Connect your generators

• Prepare / isolate sites, buildings, rooms, floors for soft strip

• Reassurance works: Verify your “isolated site” and give you an isolation certificate

• Divert cables.

• Liaise with the electricity companies

• Locate underground cables

• Expose cables for termination

• Install temporary light and power

• Pump your flooded basements out @ 120 litres a minute (average)

• Work with access platforms

• Work in confined spaces

• Work with ACMs (minor works)

• Minimum of one FAW operative in each team

• Work at heights

• Work with environmental clean up teams.

• Issue risk assessments

• Issue method statements

• Issue isolation documents

Insurance?

We are insured up to £5 million.

What don’t you do?

While we cannot work above 1000v, we do have contacts at Scottish and Southern that can accommodate this work.