Specialist Services // Earthing Design

With extensive industry knowledge and our design capabilities we are able to carry out earthing design using the latest computer software all conducted by our in-house specialists.

Earthing Design & Assessment

To comply with current legislation and statutory requirements of the Health & Safety Executive and Electricity at Work Regulation, private industry have engaged Hirst Electrical to carry out specialist earthing reports. Hirst Electrical have in-house specialist engineers with many years experience in this field, who have carried out full comprehensive surveys, studies, reports of substation earthing designs, soil modelling, touch and step profile potentials.

Our areas of expertise cover an extensive range of projects and a brief summary would identify:

• Sub Station/General Transformer/Generator Earthing
• Waste to Power Earthing Systems
• Alternative Energy (Wind Farms) Earthing & Lightning Protection

Services activities are developed and undertaken strictly in accordance with relevant National, European and International Standards.

These standards in general are listed below but are not limited to:

• BS7430
• EATS-41-24
• IEEE-80
• BS5958
• BS7671