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In an open letter to the chancellor of the exchequer, the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (Cibse), along with other member organisations from across the construction, property and infrastructure sector, highlighted a “remarkable degree of consensus” in the potential for ‘green growth’.
The Electrical Safety Council (ESC) is aiming to create a collaborative approach to recent changes to the industry's landscape.
Combining accurate and reliable power measurement over a wide power range with flexibility, ease of use and a choice of communication interfaces, the new instruments will help developers and manufacturers of electrical equipment – ranging from domestic 'white goods' to lighting systems and air-conditioning equipment – to ensure their products comply with emerging IEC and EN standards and increasingly complex and stringent specifications on energy efficiency.
Version 3 of Omicron's IEDScout, the universal software tool for working with IEC 61850 IEDs, provides extended functionality for the in-depth investigation of client/server communication as defined in IEC 61850-7-2.
Choosing cables and calculating voltage drops for electrical installations up to 25 kW takes just a second or two with the new easy-to-use smartphone app from Megger, one of the world’s leading experts in portable test equipment. The best news is that the app, Cable Calc+, is available totally free to download and, once installed, it is fully functional - even when an Internet connection is not available, allowing it to be used on even the most remote of sites.
Where the need to control lighting, temperature or other functions according to daylight hours exists, Finder has developed an innovative, easily programmable time switch which employs a unique digital program to calculate sunrise and sunset times by simply entering the location’s postcode with a single joystick.
The Electrical Contractors’ Association (ECA) and NICEIC have welcomed government plans to reduce the number of notifiable works, saying it will cut some of the red tape faced by industry.
A new shock absorbing roof tile designed to simplify the installation and improve the durability of solar PV arrays was unveiled for the first time at this year's Solar Power UK exhibition at The NEC in Birmingham.
Flexible cable innovator igus has developed CFRIP, a unique new cable with an integrated stripping cord for the rapid and safe stripping of cables, even those with gusset filled extruded jackets.
