Best Practice

By Lee Mills (pictured above), Service Director, Citation With the UK having experienced one of the hottest summers on record, and temperatures rising year-on-year, it’s vital that construction firms build this into their long-term plans…

The International Property Flood Resilience Association (IPFRA) launches with a mission to support, promote, and grow the property flood resilience (PFR) sector as it becomes an increasingly mainstream part of construction and environmental…

Mitie Security has partnered with the National Portrait Gallery to implement measures that support the Safer Business Network’s Safe Haven Initiative. Safe Havens are a part of the collective effort to address the issue of Violence Against…

The British Security Industry Association (BSIA) has updated its manufacturers’ code of practice that recommends on the design, testing and manufacture of safety and security products with a cyber exposure, whilst aligning with major new UK…

Richard Townsend, Technical Development Engineer at NAPIT, takes a detailed look at BS 7671: 2018, Section 702 on swimming pools and other basins. So, why are swimming pools classed as a special location? Despite what many would see as an…

Julian Grant of Chauvin Arnoux provides more detail about harmonics and the problems they create, as well as their relationship with the Wiring Regs. Harmonics are currents in the supply system at whole-number multiples of the supply…

Gary Parker, ECA Technical Manager, reminds contractors of the basics they need to know when it comes to passive fire protection. Passive fire stopping is an essential requirement in the Wiring Regulations (BS 7671:2018). It can also be…

There’s lots of information out there that goes into great depth on what you should be testing and how you should go about it. Unfortunately, it’s not always easy to understand. Here Jacqueline Balian of GAMBICA offers advice on making…

In this article the experts at NICEIC & ELECSA look at the particular problem of safely isolating central heating systems, which may have more than one source of electrical supply to the various component parts within the system.…

The team at Martindale Electric explain the background behind the company’s “ALIVE” message and offer best practice advice to professionals working on live electrical circuits. Over 16 years since the tragic death of 26-year-old…

Need help with cracking those EICR codes? The technical team at NAPIT, with the help of the 18th Edition Codebreakers publication, answer your latest coding queries. Click on the photos for a closer look! MATT SPENCER: I FOUND THIS LITTLE…