High voltage learning during the Christchurch earthquakes

Well, I'm getting the hang of this! Apologies for lateness; busy weekend! Me working! This week I've decided I'm going to be more brief about what I'm doing and focusing on certain areas that I feel I will need to teach. I will give a brief description of what I've done for the week, but the focus will now go onto producing course material. The photos on here are not even a tenth of the pics I have taken, so i'm building up the resources! Week breakdown: Monday: CPIT Tradefit site sub, 11kV and 400V XLPE joints into the back of circuit breakers with Steve. Also Inspection of terminations in boundary boxes on Russley Road. CPIT Tradefit site New type boundary box New type boundary box with cover off Tuesday: Remove parts from old breakers at Connetics and install in two breakers at CPIT Tradefit site sub with Steve. Wednesday: Halswell Junction Road (where new motorway will attach), 11kV XLPE-PILCA including 'spiking', phase ...

Tuesday 1 st February Before quakes and demolition         After demolition Today we were working at the demolition site of Manchester Courts on the corner of Manchester and Hereford Streets. This was considered to be one of the iconic casualty sites of the magnitude 7.1 earthquake of September 4 2010. This building was also the first 'skyscraper' in the Southern Hemisphere, being of brick construction and 10 storeys tall. The building was demolished due to concerns about its structural integrity. During demolition, an electrical kiosk was damaged, and the decision was made to move the kiosk location and replace it with a new one. Traffic lights and street lights were damaged also. I was working today with Ivor, Reece, Jeff and Jamie. Connetics, being owned by Orion (Christchurch's electricity network owner) and having a staff complement of 250, has specialist digging crews and machinery. This is extremely useful as the cable jointing crews can concentr...