First International Conference on Building Technology Earthing and Bonding (BETNET 2005)

The earthing and bonding of an electrical installation is generally considered a complex and sometimes ambiguous subject for many who are involved in electrical facility engineering. For this one day workshop, the IEE Building Electrical Technology Professional Network (BETNET) invited a group of eminent speakers to present the basic concepts and applications necessary for the design and construction of earthing and bonding networks to meet personnel safety and functional needs (e.g., in hazardous locations of ITE applications) of buildings. This tutorial provides quality information to everyone involved in earthing and bonding design, enabling the to make informed decisions, ensuring installations are safe and reliable. This is a unique course and the only one in it's field to be focussed on this topic.
It enables participants to - Identify the correct usage of earthed (or unearthed) systems to prevent electrical shock hazards Become more familiar with the requirements for earthing and bonding to comply with BS7671:2001 Specify the correct earthing and bonding requirements for power quality, general safety, hazardous locations and information technology equipment (ITE) applications Through a number of example cases presented, be able to differentiate 'Clean Earth', 'low noise earth' and 'functional earth' from 'Safety earth'?; and with the aid of a main earthing busbar and appropriate bonding networks, to avoid bad practices of ground-loops