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If you work in the sectors of production, transportation, distribution and electrical energy management, Bureau Veritas Electrical provides you with its competences and specific investigation capacities to help you manage your resources.

Qualifying electrical equipment

We benefit from a deep multidisciplinary knowledge and a full range of testing equipment allowing us to ensure the quality and compliance of tour equipment, all along the industrial process.

Follow the quality of the supplied material

We provide you with solutions and advices adapted to your needs, all along the industrial process

Perform diagnostics and expertise of materials

We help you increase the value of your equipment, providing you with solutions to control performances and durability

Obtaining proofs of conformity for your material and equipment

We assess and certify the conformity of your products  to the requirements of European and international standards, as well as particular specifications. We deliver certificates of compliance and conformity marks allowing you to access national and international markets.

Products Covered

  • Home Hardware – sockets, small circuit breakers, switches, control command, power cords, heating, fire detection
  • Industrial Components – switchgears, controlgears
  • Cables – power, appliance and data, conduits & ducts
  • Lighting – public lighting, safety blocks, ballasts
  • HVAC – heating, ventilation and air conditioning

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Why Bureau Veritas Electrical

  • Location Bureau Veritas was established in 1828 and has in excess of 23,000 employees located in 140 countries. We have access to 5,000 employees in 40 countries worldwide within the Bureau Veritas Consumer Products Service group with electrical focussed office and laboratory locations in USA, France, Germany, UK, China, Hong Kong and Taiwan
  • Knowledge - Access to our dedicated information resource center tracking the electrical legislative developments and advising on its impact
  • Capability - Access to our comprehensive accredited EMC, Safety and Environmental Test facilities in all three continents
  • Knowledge - Future legislation consultants who can advise on the impact of legislation as it develops
  • Price – With offices and facilities all over the world, we can offer incredibly competitive rates for our services

Bureau Veritas Electrical Services

Electrical Testing

  • Dielectric testing in alternate and continue tension, shocks, (lightnings, operations,…)
  • Measurements for partial discharge
  • Overload shortcuts on power testing platforms
  • electrical safety testing according to applicable standards and specifications, in our laboratories or on-site
  • Functional testing
  • Fire behaviour on cables, isolating materials, liquid or solid, or any other type of material 
  • Testing on isolating materials, liquid or gas, dielectric rigidity, permissiveness, tan delta, resistivity, resistance to progression, fire behaviour, climatic ageing…
  • Testing on contact materials, magnetic materials, …

EMC Testing

  • Measurements of conducted and radiated emissions
  • Immunity testing to external perturbations
  • Conformity testing to EMC Directive
  • Electrostatic discharges

Environmental Simulation

  • Climatic : heat, cold, humidity, marine mist, sun rays, combined cycles
  • Mechanic : vibration, shocks, shakes
  • Enveloppes protection degrees (IP, IK)
  • Corrosion
  • Acoustical measurements
  • Accelerated ageing tests on materials and components
  • Increased testing (Halt & Hass)
  • Explosive atmospheres

Certification

  • Identification of applicable standards and regulations
  • Assistance in drawing up specifications
  • Assistance in building the conformance file
  • Definition of test programs
  • Pre-qualification and conformity testing according to the requirements of standards, client specifications and other references (qualification, timelessness and obsolescent studies of electronic components)
  • Assistance in the construction and validation of technical files
  • Electrical safety testing and Electromagnetic compatibility
  • Certificates of conformity
  • Type certification : ASEFA - LOVAG for low voltage electrical apparatus

Consulting

  • Assistance in selecting materials (connectics, materials, printed wiring boards, automation components, cables,…)
  • Study of dangers
  • Risk analysis specific to recognized methods : HAZOP, AMDEC, failure trees, APR
  • Simulation of risk scenarios : atmospheric dispersion of dangerous gas (2D or 3D), explosion, fire
  • Lightning study
  • Construction of the application file for authorization to operate 
  • Electrical safety study and network analysis
  • Pollution measurements (physicochemical analysis, acoustical measurements…)
  • Chromographic diagnostic of material status (liquid or gas isolation equipment)
  • Research for identification of pollution (PCB) in liquids, earth and trash
  • Post failure expertise
  • Characterization of materials
  • Transformer Diagnostics
    • Sampling and oil analysis
    • Risk analysis and assistance in decision making
    • Systematic controls
    • Conditional controls
    • Expertise of defective materials

Training

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