Electrical Installations

1. ELECTRICAL INSTALLATIONS – why fiascos? Khalid Pervez Chief Executive KP & ASSOCIATES Consultants & Project Managers Karachi

2. PREVALENT SCENARIO ► Awareness regarding Consultancy ► Consultant’s Selection ► Unqualified Consultants ► Value Engineering

3. ► Non-Vetting of Consultants’ Design ► Abundance of Counterfeit and substandard Products ► Scarcity of skilled manpower ► Low cost approach ► Lack of supervision PREVALENT SCENARIO (cont’d)

9. PROJECT EXECUTION ► Selection of a Contractor ▪ Lowest cost approach ▪ Manpower resource ▪ Site Management ► Material Approval ▪ Correlation with specifications

10. ▪ Variations during execution ► Consultant’s Supervision ▪ Supervision checklists ▪ Supervision Records ▪ Resolution of Disputes PROJECT EXECUTION (cont’d)

11. ► Testing & Commissioning ▪ Test Protocols ▪ Witnessing of Tests ▪ Remedies ▪ As-built documentation PROJECT EXECUTION (cont’d)

12. REGULATORY FRAMEWORK ► Regulatory Bodies ▪ NEPRA ▪ Offices of Electric Inspectors ▪ Building Control Authorities ▪ Pakistan standards & Quality Control Authority

13. ► Regulatory Instruments ▪ Electricity Act 1910 ▪ Electricity Regulations 1937 ▪ Building Regulations REGULATORY FRAMEWORK (cont’d)

14. CONCLUSIONS & RECOMMENDATIONS ► Regulatory bodies must be made to stand on their feet and develop ► Regulatory bodies must develop effective framework to address all aspects of quality installations. ► The government must develop vocational training facilities on a massive scale. ► Socio-economic obligations.

15. May there be Light Best Wishes to all