What Gets Surveyed
In commercial buildings and manufacturing plants numerous standard items are examined, for example:
Main Switch Boards;
Air insulated transformers;
Cable runs, cable terminations, cable splicing, bus ducts;
Distribution boards, sub boards, contactor panels, meter panels;
Terminals and structure of circuit breakers, MCBs, RCDs, fuses;
Motor control centres, capacitor banks, UPS, and battery banks;
Process control equipment;
Major commercial equipment; IP plugs, sockets, & switches.
Within an installation specific things might be identified for examination, for example:
Control panels on a multi storey printing press;
Wall or roofing panels for insulation faults;
Build up in pipelines carrying liquids or gases;
Refrigerant tubes and air conditioning components;
Motors, bearings, shafts, conveyors;
Kilns, refractories and exhausts for leaks;
Locating areas of water penetration in walls, roof & floors;
Buried Thermal lines;
Equipment about to be shutdown for service;
Equipment repaired or recommissioned;
Product as part of quality control.