A clear path from enquiry to energisation

We start with the technical facts: voltage range, single line diagram, switchgear and transformer schedules, protection relay types and the programme dates that actually matter. Where a design is still developing, we tell you what we need and when — rather than quoting on assumptions and repricing later.

You get a scope that lists activities, exclusions, expected durations and what we need from site to be productive on day one. That last part is what protects the programme.

Before anyone travels we review the protection settings schedule, relay configuration files, grading study and drawings against the installed plant. Discrepancies found here cost nothing; the same discrepancies found on site cost a visit.

Method statements, risk assessments and the switching philosophy are prepared and issued for client approval, and where the scheme is adoptable we align the settings submission with the network operator's protection policy.

We issue a project-specific ITP listing every test, its acceptance criteria, the standard it references, who witnesses it and where the hold points are. It becomes the single reference for client, contractor and network operator, which removes the arguments that usually happen at handover.

On site we work through static checks, insulation verification, secondary injection of every protection element, primary injection where CT circuits must be proven end to end, interlock and trip path verification, transformer and cable testing, DC systems and SCADA point-to-point.

Findings are raised as they arise with a clear severity and an engineering view on the fix — not saved up for a report issued after demobilisation.

Energisation runs to a written switching programme under senior authorised person control, with points of isolation, earths, permits and exclusion zones defined in advance. Load is applied and transferred in planned steps with protection monitored throughout.

You receive a complete commissioning pack: as-tested settings schedules, all test records with equipment traceability, relay configuration files, switching records, punch list close-out and O&M input. We then agree re-test intervals and stay available for the questions that surface in the first months of operation.