IDNO/ICP

John Peckham: 
 

Amanda

I did some years ago a warehouse conversion to flats in North London UKPN wanted silly money for the supply. In the end an DNO approved contractor did the civils and laying the cables under the road with the final connection by UKPN it was a lot cheaper.

I have inspected new build flats where the BNO and the LV supply were by SSE although this was in UKPN land. They have an IDNO division.

I also dis some inspection works on new blocks of flats in a new town being built to the East of London. Again supply and BNO by SSE. We arrived on site one morning to find the site facilities managers' phone red hot with owners and tenants of flats calling to say they had no electricity or water. I had my team run around the site to check the blocks of flats to see if they had a supply which hey dis not. I told the FM to call UKPN to say the HV had been lost to the site. He called only to find out that SSE were the IDNO for the whole site not UKPN. Turned out a digger on the extended site being built had gone through an HV cable. 

So you might want to contact SSE to see what they have to offer.

 

JP

 

Thank you JP I'll take a look and see if SSE are on the list. 

Just out of interest when you say the BNO was by SSE, do you mean that they did everything from the point of entry at the building to the meters (were these central or in each apartment?) but UKPN made the connection from the road into the building? 

John Peckham: 
 

Amanda

I did some years ago a warehouse conversion to flats in North London UKPN wanted silly money for the supply. In the end an DNO approved contractor did the civils and laying the cables under the road with the final connection by UKPN it was a lot cheaper.

I have inspected new build flats where the BNO and the LV supply were by SSE although this was in UKPN land. They have an IDNO division.

I also dis some inspection works on new blocks of flats in a new town being built to the East of London. Again supply and BNO by SSE. We arrived on site one morning to find the site facilities managers' phone red hot with owners and tenants of flats calling to say they had no electricity or water. I had my team run around the site to check the blocks of flats to see if they had a supply which hey dis not. I told the FM to call UKPN to say the HV had been lost to the site. He called only to find out that SSE were the IDNO for the whole site not UKPN. Turned out a digger on the extended site being built had gone through an HV cable. 

So you might want to contact SSE to see what they have to offer.

 

JP

 

Thank you JP I'll take a look and see if SSE are on the list. 

Just out of interest when you say the BNO was by SSE, do you mean that they did everything from the point of entry at the building to the meters (were these central or in each apartment?) but UKPN made the connection from the road into the building?