Engineering ConsultancyDelivering capability, asset and power solutions

Contents

03 Foreword

04 Your challenges

06 Our experience

08 Our services

10 About Edif ERA

12 Our principles

14 About Edif Group

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Foreword

At Edif ERA, we have a depth of expertise which has developed from our long and rich history that goes beyond standard engineering consultancies. As such, we have built an enviable reputation for technical excellence.

I am proud that we put our people and our clients at the heart of everything we do. Our success is based on a perfect blend of talented, exceptional employees with different backgrounds and experiences. Every one of them applies their unique, specialist knowledge across a variety of projects and programmes. They deliver solutions to complex problems in inspired and creative ways – and that is what makes us different.

Steve LancasterManaging Director – Edif ERA

Wherever you are in the world, your business faces increasing pressure to ensure its assets and services meet safety, environmental and reliability goals and create efficiencies during their lifecycle. At the same time, you must complete projects under budget, within challenging timescales and in line with stringent regulations.

These challenges affect organisations across multiple sectors, including developers of railways, airports and other critical infrastructure projects, owners

and operators of Oil & Gas plant and equipment, businesses supporting the effective running of defence programmes and nuclear energy companies investing in new-build facilities or extending the life of old plants.

Your success is dependent on how well you manage the safety, performance and availability of your operations, ensuring they have minimal impact on your people and neighbouring communities. With this in mind, our consultants believe there is no margin for error.

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Market overview:

Your challenges

Your success is dependent on how well you

manage the safety, reliability and availability

of your operations. With this in mind, we

believe there is no margin for error.

Reaching higher quality standards

The world is striving for higher standards. Governments are exploring alternatives to fossil fuels in order to meet climate change targets, but in the meantime, energy companies are expected to maintain a stable and secure power supply. The desire to reduce carbon emissions while facilitating greater movement between major hubs is creating complex engineering challenges for the rail sector. In the Defence sector, the establishment of the Military Aviation Authority (MAA) requires companies to take a much more proactive approach to safety and airworthiness.

In short, customers are more demanding. They expect you to support environmental goals and achieve flawless safety and reliability, but they are also seeking sharper project execution.

A fast, expert response

The environments you work in are sometimes harsh or remote. You need consultants who can respond straight away, wherever you are based, with focused insight of your technical requirements.

Our people have backgrounds, qualifications and engineering experience specific to your sector, which means we can tackle all these challenges and more head-on – with speed, certainty and precision. Our experts’ broad capabilities and their passion to share ideas internally ensure that we stay at the forefront of our industry and provide our clients with a service that is second to none.

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Edif ERA is a global leader in Engineering Consultancy – we are recognised for our specialist skills and rigorous testing abilities. We have extensive experience of working on critical projects, supporting owners, operators, developers, designers and product suppliers.

We can help you ensure your operations are resilient, robust, reliable, safe and practical, mitigating costly and potentially dangerous downtime. With vast industry intellect and commercial awareness, we provide forward-looking guidance that will prepare you for future regulations, targets and market trends.

We support customers on critical projects across many industry sectors, including, but not limited to:

• Oil & Gas – upstream and downstream

• Power – generation, transmission and distribution

• Defence – land, air and sea

• Nuclear – new build and decommissioning

• Transport – rail and civil aerospace

• Built environment – critical infrastructure and civil works.

Global leaders:

Our experience

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In Azerbaijan and Asia, ERA has conducted third-party verification of electrical installation and design, including technical auditing of manufacturing and fabrication for upstream businesses, to minimise the likelihood of failure.

Agile, professional teams

Our consultants are based around the world, with local insight and many have previously worked in the field. They understand the criticality of your requirements and have a thorough understanding of the environment in which you need to operate.

We can provide our services from any of our global office locations, or send consultants on secondments to a client’s site when it is necessary to have closer access over a period of time. This is based on your need and we ensure we quickly adapt to the culture and working ethos of your business.

Trusted partners in quality

Our customers come back to us time and again because of the quality of our service coupled with the in-depth technical knowledge of sectors and stakeholder requirements. As a result, we have built long-term relationships. For example, we have framework agreements with the Office for Nuclear Regulation and National Grid and we were one of the first Network Rail-accredited Independent Safety Assessors.

We are approved under the Ministry of Defence’s Framework Agreement for Technical Support and have partnering agreements with many of the world’s leading defence contractors.

Policy and regulation conformity

Our experience of supporting and influencing to new policies means we can advise you on compliance with international and national regulations relevant to your industry, including those issued by governing bodies. For example, over recent years our consultants have played a key role in influencing the UK power industry earthing protection standards and can assess your existing facilities to ensure they are in compliance.

We have a specialist team of consultants dedicated to regulatory issues. They are experts in assessing the compliance of companies products or components for manufacturing within a broad range of industries.

Edif ERA hosts a world-leading annual environmental conference, Electrical and Electronic Equipment and the Environment. The leading event of its kind, the conference covers all the latest news regarding substance issues (the RoHS2 Directive and REACH), ecodesign, end-of-life, responsible sourcing (conflict minerals) and sustainability.

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End-to-end reassurance:

Our services

Our services will give you peace of mind, as well as save you time and money. Our engineers will work closely with you, as your partners, to help you:

• improve operational performance

• maximise availability

• minimise financial penalties

• manage safety

• learn from failures

• achieve regulatory compliance.

We can support you on an ad hoc basis or provide an integrated through-lifecycle service and across multiple sites, becoming an integral part of your team. From concept and planning, through design and commissioning, to operation, maintenance and disposal, we can provide the technical abilities, services and guidance you need to make informed decisions.

Asset Integrity

To maximise the availability and safety of large, high-value assets, our clients know they must invest in asset design, integrity and reliability assessments at each stage of the asset’s lifecycle. We provide owners and operators of these assets with technical information to enable them to make informed asset maintenance, repair or replacement decisions.

Our specialist electrical, mechanical and materials consultancy services provide you with design confidence, asset condition and remaining life assessments, fitness for service and prioritised maintenance plans – all geared to help optimise the return on your investment.

When an asset fails, we provide independent root cause analysis to prevent reoccurrence and regularly provide expert evidence supporting an insurance claim.

Capability Assurance

We understand that the procurement of equipment or services is only one part of enabling a successful capability. The ability to use your high-quality product when and where it is required and in a safe manner, is fundamental to your end objectives. Our services ensure that a product or service is influenced at the design stage to optimise its performance, safety and availability.

We implement an approach of ‘product, people, process and policy’ to influence the success of a capability. This is ultimately measured by your ability to meet your operational and financial objectives. We offer techniques and tools to model the effectiveness of a capability and to predict future risks, allowing mitigation measures to be designed.

Power Engineering

The challenges the power sector faces, such as increased competition, deregulation and environmental pressures, require you to be assured of the economic, financial and technical viability of your projects.

By providing a highly responsive and flexible consultancy service, we enable you to make investment decisions with confidence at any time during the project’s lifecycle. Our early involvement offers key advantages in terms of the optimisation of technical performance, value-engineering reviews to maximise cost reduction, risk minimisation, and compliance with health, safety and environmental requirements.

The breadth of consultancy services we provide in power systems and renewable energy, coupled with the experience we have across many countries and industry sectors, means we provide a one-stop facility covering low to extra-high voltage systems.

Training and Information

We offer a regular programme of CPD-certified training courses to help you maintain and develop technical excellence. Our training courses provide an authoritative, interactive route to improving your knowledge and expertise. For many of our customers, the programmes have become a fundamental part of their organisations’ personnel development plans.

Accurate and reliable information improves the success rate of decision-making, giving companies a sharper, more competitive edge. Our experts help organisations worldwide improve their capabilities. We acknowledge that each company’s needs are different. When the solution to a technical problem is outside your engineering expertise, we can complement your own resources by offering timely access to the relevant consultancy, information and training.

Bid and project management

Cable design and performance

Modelling and simulation

Design verification

Earthing design and assessment

Human factors

Forensic engineering and expert witness

Electrical and mechanical condition assessment

Cyber security

Gas turbines consultancy

Materials analysis

Electromagnetic compatibility

Fitness for service

Reliability, availability and maintainability

Safety engineering and assurance

Supportability and service solutions

Systems and software engineering

Power systems design and studies

Information assurance

Lightning protection

Regulatory compliance

Training needs analysis, design and delivery

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Company is founded. It is the first facility solely dedicated to co-operative electrical research in the UK. Incorporated under the name The British Electrical and Allied Industries Research Association, it becomes known as The Electrical Research Association (ERA).

New laboratories and offices open in Leatherhead, Surrey.

They remain Edif ERA’s headquarters today.

ERA changes its name to ERA Technology Ltd. New research areas include radiofrequency technology and electronic systems.

ERA Technology agrees to sell its entire issued share capital to Cobham Plc.

Edif Group acquires both the engineering consultancy business of ERA Technology Ltd, from Cobham Plc and NDE Global.

ERA Technology acquires Earthing Solutions Limited, earthing consultants in the power sector; and Persides, a provider of engineering services to the defence and energy sectors.

ERA acquires London Power Associates, a market leading provider of Power Systems engineering services.

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The history of Edif ERA

1939–1945

ERA assists the war effort, including supporting the

development of radar and mine detection equipment.

The Ministry of Labour recognised this work as an

“essential undertaking”.

Building expertise:

About Edif ERA

Edif ERA has been a leading engineering consultancy for nearly 100 years, providing novel and cutting-edge solutions to improve the safety, performance and availability of critical assets and capabilities.

Our experts offer a range of assessment, investigation, design and assurance services, bringing specialist knowledge to clients across a broad spectrum of services and industries. We will work with you to minimise your operational and financial risks and therefore ensure your success.

We deliver services across the lifecycle of assets, applying our skills to large complex installations and mission-critical assets, as well as whole systems, platforms, networks, equipment and discrete components.

We can support you during any or all phases of your project; design, commissioning, installation, through-life, upgrades and decommissioning. The earlier we get involved in the lifecycle, the greater the influence we can have in realising through-life effectiveness and efficiency.

An expanding, agile, professional team

We are a fast-growing, agile business energised by our people. We are passionate about what we do and our behaviour is driven by our values: Energy, Professionalism, Teamwork, Accountability and Commercial Awareness. Our engineers have a deep understanding of industry-specific issues and the challenges our customers face every day.

Through bold investment and acquisition, we are continually expanding our global footprint and capabilities. Our sister company Edif NDE’s worldwide operations mean we can offer complementary services and respond quickly.

ERA Technology and NDE Global are renamed Edif ERA and Edif NDE, with their subsidiary companies taking their respective parent company’s name.

2015

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A vision of excellence:

Our principles

Our business strategy is based on the following principles:

Sustainability

We drive sustainability through our services, which optimise the performance and reliability of our clients’ assets. We are committed to improving safety and minimising the likelihood of harm to people and the environment. We strive to tread lightly on the environment, supporting local communities, encouraging diversity and work-life balance, and promoting education.

Health and safety

We are focused on providing a working environment that is free of injuries and ill health to employees, freelance contractors on company business and visitors. By employing and motivating reliable, highly trained people, ensuring they are aware of all relevant health and safety policies and programmes and maintaining a proactive risk management reporting system, we can reach our goal of zero injuries.

Quality

We endeavour to understand and deliver what customers need at a price that represents value for money. We aim to build long-term, trusted relationships by ensuring our projects operate at a good profit level; continually seeking new and improved ways to do things; approaching all relationships with a win-win attitude; and maintaining mutually open, honest and timely communications.

Environment

As well as ensuring that our core activities and operations are not harmful to the communities where we work, we are committed to limiting our impact on the environment through our day-to-day activities. This includes using paper from sustainable forests; recycling paper, plastics, metals and other materials; using non-polluting materials and equipment and energy-saving devices; and making appropriate printing choices.

Careers

Edif ERA is a fast-growing business. We are continually strengthening our intelligence of customers’ needs and challenges, and how to respond to them, by employing new talent for exciting opportunities around the world. Within our teams, graduates share fresh approaches to problem-solving with experienced professionals. We encourage all our experts to think outside the box and expand their breadth of understanding by working directly with clients on-site.

We are committed to minimising the likelihood of harm

to people and the environment. We drive sustainability

through our services, which optimise the performance

and reliability of our clients’ assets.

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Our broad offering will support clients at all stages of the lifecycle of their industrial plants and assets.

We support customers anywhere in the world, in the global industrial market.

Our employees are valued partners to our clients. We will continually train, mentor and develop our people.

Safety is our number one priority and our goal is zero injuries. We will provide the resources to maintain a culture that encourages our people to act in a safe and responsible manner wherever they work.

Our businesses are structured to support a culture of collaborative teamwork and innovative thinking.

Our services will enable customers to operate on time and on specification, maximise the longevity and safety of their assets and ensure compliance with applicable standards.

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Edif NDE is a world leader in providing in-depth insight and independent, strategic services, including project management, vendor inspection and expediting, and quality assurance. Through real-time management of project activities, the business’s experts can add value and reduce risk.

All Edif NDE employees embrace the company’s key principles: Integrity, Best in Class, Professionalism, Accountability and Sustainability.

The first NDE company, NDE Quality Systems Inc, was established in Houston in 1992, and since then, offices have opened all around the world, including in Germany, Italy, China, Australia and Singapore.

It has acquired businesses such as:

• Proweld, a provider of technical inspection and training services, based in Western Australia

• Construction Technical Services Inc in Houston and its joint venture, Construction Technical Services Arabia Ltd in Saudi Arabia

• Montreal-based EPC Resources Inc, a provider of engineering, procurement and construction-related project management resources

• Boldbrink, a leading international provider of inspection and quality control services to the subsea Oil & Gas industries.

Edif ERA is part of the Edif Group, a management-owned company with a vision to be seen as the number one global provider of technical, quality, risk and safety solutions to owners and operators of industrial plants, infrastructure and critical assets.

Through two primary businesses, Edif ERA and Edif NDE, our engineers, consultants and inspectors provide testing, inspection, certification and consultancy services across a range of sectors. They cover the broad range of technical and strategic skills that our customers need across the entire lifecycle of their assets – from design, procurement and construction through to operation and decommissioning.

Our impartial guidance and reliable, accurate assessments enable customers to run their plant or project efficiently, safely, cost-effectively, to schedule and to the highest quality standards.

We work with clients across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, India, North America, the Far East and Australasia.

Edif Group’s ambitious growth plan is to invest in small and medium-sized businesses. As such, its principles are:

• Create and foster an entrepreneurial culture

• Decentralise management and encourage local empowerment

• Retain core operating brands

• Enable like-minded businesses to flourish in a larger group

• Remain focused on growth.

Partners of choice:

About Edif Group

Our impartial guidance and

reliable, accurate assessments

enable customers to run their

plant or project efficiently, safely,

cost-effectively and to schedule.

Edif is a global company.

Edif Group is a leading independent provider of technical solutions to Industrial markets worldwide.

With a network of more than 20 offices internationally, over 400 full-time staff and a network of associates in excess of 2500, Edif is able to undertake projects on a global scale.

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Asset Integrity

UK Head OfficeCleeve Road, Leatherhead Surrey, KT22 7SA UKT: +44 (0) 1372 367 345

Aberdeen OfficeBluesky Business Space, Room SF17, Westpoint House, Prospect Park, Arnhill Business Park, Westhill, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, AB32 6FJ UKT: +44 (0) 1224 270 348

Capability Assurance

Bristol OfficeUnit 17, Londonderry Farm Business Park, Keynsham Road, Willsbridge, Bristol, BS30 6EL UKT: +44 (0) 1179 329 099

Lincoln OfficeRoman Way, South Hykeham, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 9UH UKT: +44 (0) 1372 367 345

Power Engineering

Staines OfficeElizabeth House, 56-60 London Road, Staines-upon-Thames, Surrey, TW18 4BQ UKT: +44 (0) 1784 490 057

Manchester OfficeSuite 4a, Manchester One, 53 Portland Street, Manchester, Lancaster, M1 3LD UKT: +44 (0) 1612 336 600

Pontyclun Office

Ty Canol, Clun Avenue, Pontyclun, South Wales, CF72 9AG UKT: +44 (0) 1443 239 503

International Offices

Abu Dhabi OfficeUnit 704, Royal Tower, Hamdan Street, PO Box 43339, Abu Dhabi, UAET: +971 (0) 2 6222920

Nigeria Office

Plot 1709 Olugbosi Street, Off Bishop Oluwole Street, Victoria Island, Lagos, NigeriaT: +234-01-2773564 / 5