MAINTENANCE OF STEEL STRUCTURES WITHIN THE CENTRAL ELECTRICITY GENERATING BOARD

The Central Electricity Generating Board is responsible for the operation and maintenance of 233 Generating Stations, 602 Transmission Sub‐Stations, 7,780 miles of Overhead and 602 miles of Underground Transmission Lines. The current building and reinforcement programme is involving considerable financial and technical investment. To support this investment, part of the Board's policy is to promote the issue of Standards and Specifications with the object of controlling quality and the consequent reduction of maintenance down times. The contribution to this policy by incorporating anti‐corrosion techniques in Steel Structures Standards and Specifications can be considerable. Ultimately, of course, maintenance becomes a necessity and for this purpose the Standards and Specifications produced extend themselves to the materials used, principally paint, with the object of reducing maintenance periods to a minimum.