Premier Technical Services Group Ltd (PTSG) has been contracted to provide specialist electrical services at a sewerage treatment works in south west London, which is undergoing an upgrade.
McHugh Civil Engineering is the main contractor at the site in Hogsmill, in Kingston-Upon-Thames. The scope of the project includes constructing the new primary sedimentation tank, inlet works storm screen chamber, storm overflow chamber, primary digester, picket fence thickener concrete base and raised bund wall of the polyaluminium chloride dosing area.
Engineers from PTSG Electrical Services Ltd will be installing a new lightning protection system at the upgraded facility. This will provide fire and structural damage protection by preventing lightning from passing through building materials themselves.
PTSG is the UK’s leading provider of lightning protection services. JW Gray, one of the Group’s constituent companies based in Essex, was established in 1835 and is believed to be the oldest provider of lightning protection services in the UK, possibly even in Europe.
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