The ETL blog
Updates from our Highways, Connections and Training teams, and what’s new in AMP.
ETL Training Centre Has Refit
Our training centre at Acle, has undergone a refit. It is used to help train staff both internal and external in the Highways Electrical sector. We’ve brought the highway indoors so that training can be undertaken in a warm, safe and controlled environment. Up to 8 learners can put through their paces on the rigs,...
Read moreThe Illuminators raise over £2000 for Cancer Research
Together with 3 equally obsessed golfers, our own Greg Jarvis took to the links to raise money for charity, and in the process raised over £2000 and counting. The brainchild behind this Herculean effort was Ringway Milton Keynes’ own Gary Thorne, who with his colleagues Dave Hand and Dean Stead, dragged Greg into the fray...
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James Hill, Sales Director Shortlisted For Best Paper
James Hill, Electrical Testing’s sales director has been shortlisted for the Best Professional Lighting Summit Paper of 2017. Already a winner of the London and South East ILP paper for 2017, the paper explores James’s love of all things 80’s including classic cars and segues into column condition based on 20 years’ data, collected by...
Read moreFormer Carillion Manager Ben Humphrys Appointed Operations Director
Ben Humphrys, a former Senior Manager with Carillion Plc and the Carillion contracts manager for Suffolk County Council, has been appointed Operations Director overseeing the day-to-day operations at Electrical Testing for both ETL Highways and ETL Connections. Ben has extensive knowledge of the utilities industry having spent time working in both the telecoms and water...
Read moreGemma Crews Appointed Fleet Manager
Electrical Testing are please to welcome Gemma Crews to the fold as our much need Fleet Manager. With over a 100 vehicles on the road including vans, MWEP’s, trucks and HIAB’s the time had finally come to have a sole person in charge of this critical part of the business. Included in the Gemma’s role,...
Read moreLED Retrofit – Its all in the design.
When local authorities and parish councils are approached by organisations to put up festive lights, hanging baskets and banners, they understand that they need to have a BS EN 40 design carried out on the column or columns which are going to take the attachment. Critical criteria are required in order to satisfy the designer...
Read moreElectrical Testing have been re-awarded the ICP Connections Contract in Falkirk Council
We are delighted to been re-awarded the ICP jointing contract for connections work in Falkirk Council. This marks the 6th time we have been selected to work in Falkirk council and comes on the back of the heels of the Structural Testing contract that we were awarded a few weeks ago. Greg Jarvis, ETL Connections...
Read moreStructural Testing using the dipstik®
The Dipstik® technology was created by Alan Hobbs, the founder of Electrical Testing Ltd. A creative thinker, Alan came up with the Dipstik® after looking at technology used in the offshore gas and oil industry where eddy currents were used to look for faults in pipelines. Today, we use Dipstik® to structural test over 500,000...
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