EMF COMP
Substation Surveys
Electrical substations are designed to step down high voltages using transformers.
Substations come in every size, from a cabinet on a street corner to a grid site covering acres, and all of them produce electromagnetic fields, mainly from their cables and conductors. Strong enough fields can affect people’s health. We have decades of experience assessing EMF from substations and the equipment around them. Our award-winning, chartered specialists measure or model the fields accurately and recommend the mitigation needed to protect the people nearby. For more information, please get in touch.
Substations In or Near Your Facility?
Building next to an existing substation? Installing a new one in your basement, plant room or car park? Not sure what it means for the people above, beside or inside it? We can help. We assess substations of any size, measuring the 50 Hz fields where the equipment exists and modelling them where it is still on the drawing board. You receive a report to the highest standard, and certainty that your facility or project complies with the EMF regulations and ICNIRP guidelines. At 50 Hz, that means 100 µT for the public and a low action level of 1000 µT for workers.
We have worked with some of Europe’s largest companies, and with developers, contractors and operators of every size. Whoever the client, the result is the same: assurance that everyone near the substation is protected, whether a “standard” worker or someone with a pacemaker or other cardiac device, the people the Regulations call “employees at particular risk”.
Quality, Confidence, Competence
After more than 500 assessments, substations hold few surprises for us, and the chances are we have worked in your sector too. Our EMF modelling and measurement methods grew out of space technology and earned us a place in the European Space Agency’s Business Incubation Centre (ESA BIC). We completed the programme, and those advanced techniques are now applied to substation projects like yours.
Who Can Carry Out This Work?
Authoritative bodies recommend that electromagnetic safety assessments are carried out by competent persons. EMFcomp Limited has an excellent track record of demonstrating compliance with the EMF regulations and guidance, in every sector. We turn the detail of the legislation into plain English, so what lands on your desk is a detailed report, clear guidance and recommendations you can act on, whether that is for a planning submission, a design team or a safety file.
Bring us in at any stage: feasibility, design, construction or after energisation. We work alongside your site teams and contractors so the survey causes minimal disruption to the programme. We carry out electromagnetic radiation surveys in all kinds of workplace, anywhere in the UK and overseas, and take EMF measurements where and when it suits you.
