Electrical and Green Energy Engineering

Construction Design & Management

We pride in our approach to any project in the highest standard of health and safety standards. Therefore, we adhere to the UK Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 (CDM 2015) by ensuring we employ the right people for the right job at the right time. One of key strength in working in the areas of solar photovoltaic (PV) system installations is that our approaches are based on specifically in-house based know-how to design and execute of complex solar system solutions.


From our many years of experience in providing CDM consultancy services across all areas of the construction industry, we have developed a pragmatic approach which adds value to the project process rather than just being a tick box, paper producing exercise. This is reflected in the high level of repeat business that we have achieved over the many years.

Construction Safety and Delivery

Early in the pre-construction phase of a project, our approach are based on the notion of coordinating with the client for planning and design activities. Thus requires us to ensuring that necessary steps what we have taken according to the design specifications are in conjunction with our rigorous safety standards to avoid any hazards on the basis of reducing risks of delays, damages, disruptions or additional costs.

We welcome and encourage the idea of client appointing a “Principal Contractor” to manage the solar PV system construction work. Our aim is to ensure no one should “pay the price” for any mishaps or misfortunes that could be avoided with sheer professionalism.

We pride in client satisfaction without compromising safety and quality.

Construction Design

SolarTech-UK can assist you to fulfil the legal duties and construction phase reports under CDM
2015 using our experienced and competent team to assist with:

  • Plan, manage, monitor and coordinate the entire construction phase.
  • Take account of the health and safety risks to everyone affected by the work (including members of the public), in planning and managing the measures needed to control them.
  • Liaise with the client and principal designer for the duration of the project to ensure that all risks are effectively managed.
  • Prepare a written Construction Phase Plan (CPP) before the construction phase begins, implement, and then regularly review and revise it to make sure it remains fit for purpose.

Construction Management

SolarTech-UK can assist you to fulfil the legal duties and construction phase reports under CDM 2015
using our experienced and competent team to assist with:

  • Have ongoing arrangements in place for managing health and safety throughout the construction phase.
  • Consult and engage with workers about their health, safety and welfare.
  • Ensure suitable welfare facilities are provided from the start and maintained throughout the construction phase.
  • Check that anyone they appoint has the skills, knowledge, experience and, where relevant, the organizational capability to carry out their work safely and without risk to health.
  • Ensure all workers have site-specific inductions, and any further information and training they need.
  • Take steps to prevent unauthorized access to the site.
  • Liaise with the principal designer to share any information relevant to the planning, management, monitoring and coordination of the pre-construction phase.

Forensic Engineering

  • Solar PV production is a highly complex technical matter on which millions of individuals and businesses rely. Solar PV System losses can have serious consequences, including extensive business interruption costs, equipment and product damage, and catastrophic infrastructure damage.
  • SolarTech-UK energy experts and engineers have in-depth knowledge of and experience in responding to failures involving Solar PV System and other components involved in solar energy production.
  • We know that good planning and understanding are essential to mitigating and recovering from significant power losses.
  • We have a multi-disciplinary team that is highly skilled in investigating solar PV energy losses and providing comprehensive solutions and expertise. Our engineers have well-rounded knowledge on how to analyze solar PV systems
  • From design to maintenance, SolarTech-UK engineers can review documents and determine where to look and which questions to ask to get to the root cause of an issue. We can assist with identifying and preserving critical evidence quickly to protect your assets in cases of third-party liability or subrogation.
  • When an unbiased expert opinion, technical documentation, or expert witness is needed, we aim to provide a complete and satisfactory experience to each of our clients. All our reports undergo rigorous technical reviews by Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Senior Team Members so that nothing is missed, and you receive real valuable information to help you resolve your challenging technical problems.

Solar PV Design Solutions

  • A solar energy system is a good choice if you have plenty of suns and have a properly designed system. Building an effective, reliable, and safe solar power system requires several key components.
  • The most important of these are careful design, good quality component equipment, and the correct installation procedures carried out by competent professionals.
  • SolarTech-UK has immense experience and expertise to achieve a variety of complex design considerations and variables. We can assist you from site and equipment selection, to design considerations.
  • We have worked on numerous utility-scale or solar farm solar projects. We have expertise in single axis, dual-axis, and fixed-tilt systems.
  • We got the capability to provide all the E and L category drawings including 3-line diagrams, interconnection line diagrams, construction details, and 3D sketch-up models for presentation purposes.

Residential

We have extensive experience in designing the Residential Solar System. We provide a variety of services in this sector, ranging from sales to interconnection. Our team has in-depth knowledge of Utility requirements and is acquainted with various codes and compliance.


Proposal Drawings

We provide accurate proposal documents for solar installers, helping them to gain business. SolarTech-UK provides less than a 12-hour turnaround to customers enabling them to pace up the signing up process. We just need the address of the locality, and we will create the proposal drawings by which the estimated system size can be determined.


Permit Drawings (On-Grid & Off-Grid)

We provide PV Permit and Installation design drawings for Residential PV Systems. Our designs meet the NEC/IEC and local municipality standards. We are proficient in Flush Roof Mount, Tilt Roof Mount, Non-Penetrating Roof Mount, Ground Mount, Micro-inverters, etc.


Design Changes/Revisions

Changes occur in the proposed solar system many times. SolarTech-UK can step in at any stage and can take the design forward. We can work on changing racking, electrical equipment, mounting planes, etc., and can provide you a quick turnaround of as low as 12 hours.


As-built Drawings

The As-built Drawings show how the system was actually installed and reflect any changes made to the design during installation. If as-built drawings are not produced, the client will not have a record of how the system was actually installed. To enable the client to have the most recent drawings, we provide the as-built drawings services to our customers. We require either a hand sketch of the changes made during the installations or the photographs so that we can amend those in the drawings.


Commercial

We have successfully designed several commercial projects (1MW to 50MW) with different types of racking systems on roofs, carports, and ground mounts. We are equipped to prepare the PV array layouts, mounting details, BOS Elevations shading analysis, Electrical 3 line, and single line diagrams, etc.


Solar PV Feasibility Studies

  • Our team has helped many businesses measure, plan and implement their energy saving initiatives through our unique Solar Feasibility Study.
  • We conduct a detailed study to determine the weakest areas in terms of energy efficiency and recommend products and technologies to reduce your energy usage as well as your carbon footprint.
  • We use complex variances, standard procedures and defined guidelines for carrying out our feasibility analysis. We also provide an array of viable options to ensure your investment meets the desired requirements perfectly.
  • Our approach is based on the principle of clear and data-driven analysis to ensure, we are focused and timely investment and implementation of resources to enable the best return for our client.

Our procedure is divided into three major steps:


Understanding our customer

We start by finding the gap between your energy efficiency needs and the available resources. Based on the information we formulate possible project scenarios providing maximum benefit to the customers.


Understanding the financials

We further determine the financial implications associated with different scenarios such as capital and operating costs through life-cycle analysis which essentially includes operations cost, financial costs, depreciation, tax benefits, government incentives (if any) and capital cost to determine the project feasibility.


Choosing the best option

To choose the best option, we also study current market scenario, associated risks, current fuel and power costs situation in the country and any compliance requirement specific to your company. The outcomes from these previous steps are combined to develop the best available option. We consider one of the following financial appraisal methods such as Simple Payback Period (SPP), Life Cycle Costing, Internal Rate of Return and Discounted Cash Flow to evaluate the best option. d Ground mounts for flat and sloping grounds using various racking systems. We can provide a detailed arrangement drawing.


Solar PV Performance Simulations

  • Accurate solar energy models are essential for financial modelling. If a conservative PV system underestimates the generation, the project loses value.
  • If an aggressive PV system overestimates, the project is overvalued, and you may have trouble servicing the debt. We have run thousands of performance models, as well as analysis on thousands of operational systems, so our modelling inputs are based on industry-accepted standards and backed by real-world data
  • We use the latest PVsyst version– the most powerful software for photovoltaic systems, for the study, sizing, simulation, economics, and data analysis of complete PV systems for energy annual generation of the Solar Project.

We Deliver:
• PVSyst Solar project simulation report in pdf, and project file exported to PVSyst format.
• Simple horizon and far shading simulation.
• P50-P90 simulation and Additional 8760´s hourly file for financial analysis if requested.
• 5 or more Simulation Options that let you optimize and analyse the Solar Plant.
• Loss diagram over the whole year.
• Economic Solar Assessments for Lenders and Investors who want to certificate and evaluate the energy annual generation of the
solar project.


We can evaluate any Solar Project in the world. The Layout on the report will be simulated roughly to obtain the near shadings loss
results. If the horizon file is not available, we can estimate obstacles distance and heights for the analysis of the far shadings. If
required by the Client we can deliver on-demand, an extended report for the Technical Due Diligence, during the purchase or
financing of the Solar projects, as well as support the Client for the revision of existing PVSyst Reports from EPC Contractor or seller
of the Solar projects, Simulation parameters can be adapted to the Client´s needs, and Bankable Solar Assessment to evaluate energy
annual generation of the Solar Project.