﻿{"id":499,"date":"2013-02-16T07:32:42","date_gmt":"2013-02-16T07:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lloyd-alman.com\/?page_id=499"},"modified":"2013-03-02T07:20:38","modified_gmt":"2013-03-02T07:20:38","slug":"meter-standards-consultancy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lloyd-alman.com\/?page_id=499","title":{"rendered":"Meter Standards &#038; Consultancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lloyd-alman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/meterstandards-MAIN.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1318\" title=\"meterstandards- MAIN\" src=\"http:\/\/lloyd-alman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/meterstandards-MAIN.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"570\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lloyd-alman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/meterstandards-MAIN.jpg 570w, https:\/\/lloyd-alman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/meterstandards-MAIN-300x100.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 2em;\">Meter Standards &amp; Consultancy<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Lloyd Alman\u2019s understanding of the history of metering standards and legislation and their development as they evolved alongside the changing landscape of the gas industry puts us in a unique position to deliver a specialised consultancy service.The development of new standards relating to metering products and services is important to maintaining the expected quality, as is the continued necessity for professional assessments of such services and products.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Lloyd Alman plays a key role in the continued development of the metering standards industry through ongoing attendance and leadership of standards committees and working groups.<\/p>\n<p>On behalf of our clients, Lloyd Alman\u2019s metering team support the following:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><strong>Technical Committee CEN\/TC 237 Gas Meters<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nResponsible for the product standards of gas meters and conversion devices, which include, diaphragm, domestic ultrasonic, rotary displacement and turbine gas meters and well as conversion devices. This work includes harmonising its standards to appropriate European Directives.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #888888;\">CEN\/TC 237 Gas Meters \u2013 Working Group 5<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong>Deals with common issues across all gas meter standards under CEN\/TC 237. This includes the recent harmonisation of five European gas meter product standards to the Measuring Instruments Committee.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #888888;\">CEN\/TC 237 WG5 Task Group SMART Metering<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong>Input into the preparation of a technical paper on SMART Metering.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #888888;\">CEN\/TC 237 Gas Meters \u2013 Working Group 4<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong>Support to the development of European Standards EN 12405-1: Gas meters. Conversion devices \/ Volume conversion and EN 12405-2 Gas meters. Conversion devices \/ Energy conversion.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><strong>CEN Sector Forum Gas Infrastructure<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nThis is a high level strategy group whose membership includes the Chairman of the relevant CEN Technical Committees. The group deals with issues associated with gas infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><strong>IGEM Gas Measurement Committee<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nInput into revising Gas Measurement Procedures relating to meter installations, associated pressure regulation and measurement of flow of gas and measurement of gas quality as it affects the billing of energy and when necessary.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><strong>IGEM IGE\/GM\/6<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nInput to document development and formulating new guidelines for the use of volume conversion devices in the UK.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><strong>IGEM IGE\/GM\/7<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nInput to document development and formulating new guidelines for the installation of electrical equipment in hazardous areas associated with gas metering installations.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><strong>BSI GSE 25<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nThe committee responsible for British Standards relating to Gas Meter products.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><strong>BSI GSE 25\/-\/1<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nBSI committee on meter boxes.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><strong>BSI GSE 30\/-\/2<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nTechnical input to a new standard for the Installation of Domestic Gas Meters. British Standards drafted by this panel are BS 6400 \u2013 1, BS 6400 \u2013 12 BS 6400 \u2013 3.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><strong>BSI GSE 30\/-\/3<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nTechnical input to a new standard for the Installation of low pressure domestic gas pipework. The British Standard drafted by this panel is BS 6891.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><strong>GSE 25<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nResponsible for British Standards relating to Gas Meter products.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><strong>GSE 25\/-\/1<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nResponsible for British Standards relating to Gas Meter boxes.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><strong>GSE 30\/-\/2<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nTechnical input to standard development for the Installation of Domestic Gas Meters. British Standards drafted by this panel are BS 6400 \u2013 1, BS 6400 \u2013 12 BS 6400 \u2013 3.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><strong>GSE 30\/-\/3<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nTechnical input to standard development for the Installation of low pressure domestic gas pipework. The British Standard drafted by this panel is BS 6891.<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"color: #888888;\">MARCOGAZ Working Group 2 Gas Meters<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Shadowing work being undertaken within Europe and the rest of the world associated with gas meters (specifically SMART Metering) and where necessary lobbying the Commission, standards organisations, manufacturers, and other gas utilities.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><strong>WELMEC WG 11, Utility Meters<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nThis group is responsible for \u2018Utility gas, electricity, water and heat meters&#8217; with the objective of agreeing common metrological issues and guidelines which will be submitted to the Commission for publication in the Official Journal of the European Union. This group is actively discussing the issues associated with SMART Metering and the effects on legal metrology.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meter Standards &amp; Consultancy Lloyd Alman\u2019s understanding of the history of metering standards and legislation and their development as they evolved alongside the changing landscape of the gas industry puts us in a unique position to deliver a specialised consultancy service.The development of new standards relating to metering products and services is important to maintaining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":479,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-499","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lloyd-alman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lloyd-alman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lloyd-alman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lloyd-alman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lloyd-alman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lloyd-alman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1333,"href":"https:\/\/lloyd-alman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/499\/revisions\/1333"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lloyd-alman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lloyd-alman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}