Estates electrical work at City this weekend

July 15, 2020

Saturday 18 July:

Our estates team alongside Western Power Distribution are carrying out maintenance of the main high voltage electrical supply to City Hospital On Saturday 18 July.

Maintaining the switchgear is a statutory requirement but also proves the resilience of the dual supplies coming into the site and the automatic controls.

The whole City site except BTC and Sheldon will experience an interruption at 7.30am on Saturday 18 July while we switch over to generator. This interruption is identical to the monthly generator test which is well practiced.

The site will be switched back to mains at 4pm with a momentary interruption to power. The return to mains will be co-ordinated with staff on site to ensure the least impact to site operations and will be carried out in phases.

We are running the site on generator to reduce the number of switching operations and consequent inconvenience. The mains supply will be available in the event of an issue with one of the site generators. With the exception of the switching times, electrical supplies to all areas will be available as normal.

Sunday 19 July:

Our estates team will be maintaining the high voltage substation supplying BMEC, PAS data centre and telephone exchange.

There will be a short interruption to electrical supply at 7.30am while we switch over to generator and a momentary interruption at 1pm when supplies are restored to normal.  We have temporary supplies installed to provide a backup contingency.

To support, we have an engineer from power electrics (generators) on site both days and additional estates staff working.

For further information regarding the works or if there are any issues during the works please contact Malcolm Partridge on 07773 630866 or Ian Hawthorn on 07951 069299.