Building Wires

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Building Wires

Building wire program aims to promote electrical safety. The objective is to ensure that the international electricity safety standards and codes are embraced by all the electricity users in India and Bangladesh by apprising them of the benefits of following the established right wiring practices mainly Copper wires and thus, avoiding fire or other accidents .For achieving these objectives, ICAI is working on discouraging users from usage of lower denomination cross section wires at or below 1 mm2 in buildings and increasing the minimum denomination of these wires to 1.5 mm2.Considering the need for applying these standards to old buildings too, ICAI is working for making it mandatory for periodic inspection of such buildings and for ensuring that they follow the right wiring practices during renovation or rewiring.