Category Professional Practice

The absence of proper electrical drawings on construction sites continues to present significant challenges during installations and even greater risks for future maintenance. Unfortunately, in many building projects across Nigeria, electrical drawings are often overlooked, even among well informed professionals. The common practice is to call in an electrician only after blockwork and roofing are complete, requesting a cost estimate without any formal design. What follows is a purely discretionary read more

The map for Edo State Electricity Network where all point loads connected to the Ossiomo Power is shown.

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A BMS or Battery Equaliser is an electronic device that monitors, controls and ensures the wellbeing of rechargeable batteries in a bank.

Statistics has shown that 75% of most fire outbreak in buildings especially in commercial buildings in Nigeria are as a result of electrical faults. [Lagos State Fire and Safety Services, Olaoye Ahmed, 2014). Similarly, the United States Fire Administration stated that between 2014 and 2016 electric fire accounted for 63% of all residential fire outbreak with approximately 24,000 fires being reported each year.

Therefore, a lot of attention needs to be directed into the process of electrical installations, read more

NEED FOR AN ELECTRICAL DRAWING/DESIGN FOR YOUR BUILDING

Within my years of practice as a registered Electrical Engineer, I have never seen such an unwitting disposition of house owners like I am seeing currently in my location. Most of my professional colleagues advised me not to conclude since I haven’t practiced in the 36 states of the country, but I have practiced in about 5 states and I think where I’m currently residing has a special scenario. With a little awareness and orientation program read more

Determination of Cable Sizes for Various Current Ratings

I was opportune to visit a site at Obe, a small community in Benin City, Edo State where I was startled at what I saw the electrician do. Firstly, I observed that there was no registered Engineer on site (Civil/Electrical) all the artisans were all carrying out their duties based on their technical knowhow without an form of design or a qualified Engineer to guide. But whom do I blame? The Workmen? No, The Professional Engineers not on site? No, The successful Businessman Client? YES…

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HOW TO IMPROVE THE LIGHTING IN YOUR OFFICE PREMISES

Lighting is very paramount in every business premises, the nature of your business will determine the type of lighting design to be carried out. From research, it has been proven that office lighting quality affect the productivity of the staff. Most commercial offices like factories, bakeries, sawmill, printing press and other heavy duty offices require adequate illumination of between 150 – 500lx to see properly and prevent unwarranted accident.

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WHEN PROFESSIONALS DO THE JOB

As an Electrical consultant, I have had course to visit so many Electrical Sites (both Low Voltage and Medium Voltage) and the level of unprofessionalism seen on sites by unqualified electricians is quite alarming and some project managers are not bothered because they intentionally bring in this electricians without an Electrical Engineer to design nor supervise so that they could maximize profit at the detriment of the client who must have paid for such services as reflected in the bill.

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EARTH RESISTANCE TEST, A MUST FOR EVERY BUILDING

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I see a lot of building construction going on everyday in Nigeria, Benin City to be precise and I keep asking myself when will things get better? When will the Nigeria Society of Engineers (NSE) or rather the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN) begin to act effectively to ensure that Nigeria citizenry are safe.

A building site (future hospital, future residential building) without an engineer to supervise, read more