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Electrical Installation Designs

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Electrical Installation Designs is a practical and comprehensive guide for electrical contractors focusing on small installation projects. It offers clear instructions and worked examples to design projects efficiently while fully complying with the latest Wiring Regulations (BS 7671:2008). The book covers a wide range of topics including domestic, commercial, industrial, and agricultural installations, with new sections on marinas, caravan sites, floodlighting, protective measures, and Part P of the Building Regulations.
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This book is ideal for electrical contractors, engineers, and students involved in designing and implementing electrical installations, especially those seeking up-to-date guidance aligned with the latest wiring regulations in the UK.

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The book is a clearly written practical guide to completing electrical installation projects in a competitive manner, while ensuring full compliance with the recently updated Wiring Regulations.

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Electrical Installation Designs is a practical and highly popular guide for electrical contractors of small installations, now fully revised in accordance with the latest wiring regulations.

The book offers a clearly written practical guide on how to design and complete a range of electrical installation projects in a competitive manner, while ensuring full compliance with the new Wiring Regulations (updated late 2008). The updated regulations introduced changes in terminology, such as 'basic' and 'fault protection', and also changed the regulation numbers. This new edition reflects these changes.

It discusses new sections covering domestic, commercial, industrial and agricultural projects, including material on marinas, caravan sites, and small-scale floodlighting. This book provides guidance on certification and test methods, with full attention given to electrical safety requirements. Other brand new sections cover protective measures, additional protection by means of RCDs, the new cable guidelines for thin wall partitions and Part P of the Building Regulations.

  • Provides simple, practical guidance on how to design electrical installation projects, including worked examples and case studies.
  • Covers new cable guidelines and Part P of the Building Regulations (Electrical Installations) in line with the 17th edition of the Wiring Regulations BS 7671:2008.
  • New chapters on protective measures and additional protection by means of RCDs (residual current devices).
  • Features new wiring projects such as marinas, caravan sites, and small scale floodlighting and street lighting.
  • Fully illustrated, including illustrations new to the fourth edition.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781119992844

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 04 January 2013

Country: United States

Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Edition: 4th edition

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 14.0mm

Width: 191.0mm

Height: 244.0mm

Weight: 445g

Pages: 272

About the Author

Mr. Bill Atkinson (deceased) Bill Atkinson was thewriter's pseudonym used by Alan Smith, the original author of thebook. He worked in the electrical installation industry and at theNICEIC. Mr. Roger Lovegrove, Consultant, Surrey, UK RogerLovegrove is an electrical consultant. He is a member of theElectrical Contractors' Association techinical committees and ofthe joint IEE/BSI Wiring Regulations committee. With his vastknowledge in this area of electrical engineering, he has updatedBill Atkinson s original text for this fourth edtition. Mr. Gary Gundry, Senior Engineer, ElectricalSafety Council, UK Mr Gundry worked for Seeboard andEastern Electricity, before becoming a lecturer at LowestoftCollege, teaching electrical contracting and electrical engineeringup to HNC level. He joined NICEIC in 1999 after spending threeyears as a Director and Qualified Supervisor of a business enrolledas an Approved Contractor, where he worked in the Standardsdivision on the NICEIC Technical Manual. He is now Senior Engineerat Electrical Safety Council. Mr. Martyn Allen, Senior Engineer, ElectricalSafety Council Martyn Allen's experience in the electricalinstallation industry spans 30 years. He served an apprenticeshipand worked as an electrician with British Coal, spent 16 years inengineering insurance risk management and then joined theElectrical Safety Council. He is a Chartered Electrical Engineerand Corporate Member of the IET. He is a member of the JointTechnical Committee JPEL/64 Panel C Shock Protection andIsolation and Switching.

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