Construction and infrastructure
Powering a site whose permanent connection is not yet live, or whose construction supply is no longer enough.
What triggers it
The connection application is lodged and the lead time you have been given falls after your opening date. Or a phase of the works calls for more power than the temporary supply can deliver: a tower crane, a hoist, a welding station, a concrete batching plant.
- Usual duration
- From a few weeks to several months, often aligned with a phase of the works.
- Hire unit
- Monthly, with the option to extend.
What you need to know
- A battery does not create energy: it gives back what has been put into it. On a site with no grid at all, it recharges from a source, and it is that source that has to be sized with you.
- Ground bearing capacity and heavy goods vehicle access decide the model as much as the power required. A survey avoids a lorry that leaves still loaded.
- Noise and emissions are often the reason a battery is chosen over a generator: in a town centre, on night works, close to housing or to a hospital.
Supply in five stages
- 01
The call
Who: You and our hire manager
What: You describe what you need to power, over what period, and with what connection already in place. In that same conversation we tell you whether this is a case for a hired battery, or a case for something else.
- 02
The survey
Who: Our engineer, on site or from drawings
What: Heavy goods vehicle access, ground bearing capacity, available footprint, means of unloading, distance to the connection point. On a straightforward site, a drawing and photographs are enough.
- 03
The delivery
Who: Our haulier
What: The equipment arrives, it is unloaded and set down in the agreed position. The outgoing condition report is signed at that moment.
- 04
The connection
Who: Our engineer, with your electrician
What: Connection, energisation, checking of protective devices, load test. You leave with the procedure to follow and the number to call.
- 05
The collection
Who: Us
What: De-energisation, disconnection, removal, incoming condition report. The hire ends when the equipment is collected, not when you call.
When it is not the right answer
If what you need is high power continuously, all day, for months, with no recharging source available, a battery on its own is not the right answer and we will tell you so.
All situationsA project in the works?
Let’s talk about it now.