The C&G Design, Erection and Verification was indeed the 2400 when I did it in July 2003 and it was actually nineteen years ago that I did it, like the four City and Guilds electrical I completed prior to that, syllabuses and content have changed as have the qualification code numbers.

I benefited when I did the Wiring Regulations, Inspection & Testing and Design, Erection & Verification courses from being with a group of extremely competent electricians, the sugar beet factory was closing at Kidderminster and the sixteen electricians who worked there were being made redundant and needed to update their qualifications to get jobs elsewhere, the factory had its own power station that ran through the sugar beet campaigns generating a couple of megawatts at eleven thousand volts, they ran and maintained the entire set up so certainly knowledgable  and experienced classmates to bounce off.

Bear in mind as well, the internet was in its infancy and we couldn’t just keep doing internet searches to find articles and resources such as videos to help us through the course, we either had to buy books or borrow them from other electricians or libraries, I remember walking around to an electricians house a couple of streets away from mine and borrowing his set of IET Guidance Notes because I had hit a stumbling block completing part of my project, then spending a hour talking it through with him.

The IET were  already putting fillable pdf electrical certification on this website back then, I stopped the computer skills lecturer who was doing the European Computer Driving Licence course in a corridor at college one evening to ask him how to to do something with the IET pdf’s and he replied “I don’t know, you’re working at a lot higher level than I teach at” as I remember it I used the IET forms as part of my project whilst everyone else hand wrote theirs.

Different days in many ways, but not others!

until recently I still had the 2400 drawing for the project, I think it was an imaginary firm called "Barrins Davis" or something and we had to design the electrical supply disboard/subboard etc etc and the circuit routes and lighting with automatic lighting thrown in some locations. I think that was about 1989/1990 if I remember correctly.

until recently I still had the 2400 drawing for the project, I think it was an imaginary firm called "Barrins Davis" or something and we had to design the electrical supply disboard/subboard etc etc and the circuit routes and lighting with automatic lighting thrown in some locations. I think that was about 1989/1990 if I remember correctly.