The Impact of the 17th Edition of the Wiring Regulations

Date 04 September 2008

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Time

09:00 - Registration and refreshments.
16:00 - Close

Location

Manchester Conference Centre, Manchester, UK

All dates

09 April 2008 London, UK
18 June 2008 Glasgow, UK
04 September 2008 Manchester, UK

Who should attend

Building services engineering consulting engineers
M & E contracting and consulting engineers
Technician engineers
Facility managers and engineers
I.T. and systems engineers
Architects and property developers
Design engineers
Building control officers

Registration

Cost

	Early Bird Rate for registration on or before 23 July 2008	Standard Rate for registration after 23 July 2008
Member	£245.00 (+ £42.88 VAT = £287.87)	£295.00 (+ £51.63 VAT = £346.63)
Non-member	£295.00 (+ £51.63 VAT = £346.63)	£345.00 (+ £60.38 VAT = £405.38)
*Student/Retired**	£105.00 (+ £18.38 VAT = £123.38)	£105.00 (+ £18.38 VAT = £123.38)

* All students must have their applications endorsed by their Professor or Head of Department

Programme

09:00	Registration and refreshments
09:30	Chairman’s introduction Geoff Cronshaw, Chief Engineer, Standards and Compliance, The IET
09:40	Overview of the 17th Edition of the IEE Wiring Regulations: The evolution of standards for over 125 years The international dimension The European dimension The role of the national committees New work proposals Some of the more significant changes in the 17th Edition of BS 7671 Geoffrey Stokes, Director, Benchmark Electrical Safety Technology Ltd
10:00	The Designer's point of view A brief overview of how the main changes impact on the design of the electrical installation, for example: Chapter 41 introduces changes to Disconnection times Chapter 52 introduces changes to Voltage drop in consumers’ installations Chapter 41 now requires sockets up to 20A for use by ordinary persons to be RCD protected-with certain exceptions Geoff Cronshaw, Chief Engineer, Standards and Compliance, The IET
10:40	Refreshments
11:15	17th Edition from a contractors view Key 17th issues affecting contractors including Chapter 41 – electric shock RCD specification and pitfalls Discrimination EMC issues Harmonics and neutrals Darrell Locke - Technical Manager, Electrical Contractors’ Association
11:55	Questions and answers sessions (from the morning presentations)
12:15	Lunch
13:15	The electricity at work regulations 1989 and BS 7671: 2008 Legal requirements from Electricity at Work Regulations 1989 (EAWR) Relationship between EAWR and BS 7671 Competence Case studies of electrical incidents Ken Morton, HM Principal Inspector, Head of Power Systems and Ignition Hazards, Electrical and Control Corporate Topic Group
13:55	Initial verification, inspection and testing - an electrical contractors view A brief overview of the main changes in Part 6 Inspection and testing and how the changes in the Regulations impact on part 6, for example: Chapter 41 changes – these have significant implications for those items required to be inspected in Regulation 611.3 and hence in the model form for the Schedule of Inspections given in Appendix 6. Testing - Changes to minimum acceptable values of insulation resistance and requirement to check phase sequence and volt drop. Alan Wells, Head of Electrotechnical, NICEIC Group Ltd
14:35	Refreshments
15:00	The 17th Edition – How it affects the commercial customer. The presentation will look at the changes and implications from the commercial customers view point specifically focusing on the following points: Initial and periodic inspections of competence of installations within complex buildings Compliance of non-permanent pre-built displays Managing alterations and plant renewals Steve Haley, Engineering Manager, Selfridges & Co.
15:40	Questions and answers (from the afternoon presentations)
16:00	Chairman's Closing Remarks and Close of Day

Organiser

This workshop has been organised by the IET Built Environment Technologies network.

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