Has anyone read these books?
"The Electricians Guide to the 17th Edition of the IEE Wiring Regulations BS7671:2008 and Part P of the Building Regulations (17th Edition) by John F. Whitfield"
JJ
We have a few copies of the 17th Edition Regs and that's what we work to as a minimum standard.
For overseas jobs we take the more stringent of local or 17th.
But even within UK, we sometimes get hit with customer generated additional requirements, often related to documentation.
One incident particularly sticks in my mind. We quoted for a repeat job for a fairly big control system. OK, we'd already done the design work, we had historical costings for labour and materials. So, a bit of a no-brainer to rebid. Which I did and we were awarded the contract. Finegood. Another job in the bag. A new twist was that a "facilities management" company, call them FM, was to run the project rather than the final customer.
A couple of days after the order was placed, the FM guy staggered into my office with a huge box of specifications, none of which had been disclosed prior to the order being placed.
One of the specifications, around 40 pages, was instructions on how to write operation and maintenance manuals. There was a complete section on the use of punctuation including a whole page on the correct use of a comma.
Patronising that may be but it amused me - the specification didn't comply with its
own rules.
