Hager inspires Amendment 3 design for 17,000 Barratt Developments Barratt Developments plc has been working proactively alongside leading electrical manufacturer Hager to ensure the recent wiring regulation changes would have minimum impact on its construction process while maintaining high quality interior design. As a result, it has specified Hager’s Design 30 consumer unit into 17,000 new homes for 2016. On 1st January 2016, changes brought in by Amendment 3 to the wiring regulations BS 7671 came into full effect. The changes were driven by investigations into several fires involving plastic consumer units by the London Fire Brigade, which concluded that a key cause of the fires was substandard cable connections made by the electrician. These resulted in overheating, which e

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