Electrical instalations

CENELEC 64 a/b
ELECTRICAL INSTALATIONS AND PROTECTION AGAINST ELECTRIC SHOCK

Electrical installation in European private houses is a large market where small and micro enterprises are very active and where they often cover more than 80% of the market. The normative situation in the EU member states is still very heterogeneous. Different rules and standards still apply in this sector, which need to be coordinated in order to assure safety to users and workers, but one is still far from a complete harmonisation. CENELEC TC 64, already active since many years, is trying to provide harmonised standards for electrical installations.

Mr Giulio Dall’Olio is NORMAPME’s expert appointed jointly by CNA, which represents the biggest share of Italian electrical installers and have a long record of activities in the electrical sector. Mr Dall’Olio, electrical engineer, who runs his own engineering consultancy company, is already a member of the Italian mirror committee.

Mr Dall’Olio participates in the activities of TC 64 “Electrical installations and protection against electric shock”, SC 64A “Electrical installations and protection against electric shock” and SC 64B “Electrical installations of buildings: Protection against thermal effects”.  He works in 3 WGs: 13, 18 and 5, dealing with conductors and cables, installations’ thermal effects, electromagnetic fields.

Within those groups he proposed to include concrete draws and tables, in particular within the standard drafted by WG 13, HD 60364-4-444 ‘Protection against electromagnetic interferences (EMI) in installation in buildings’. To have draws and simple tables within the texts of these standards would ease the working life of thousands of installers.