Continuing Professional Development

KOHLER Uninterruptible Power has extensive knowledge and experience of designing, specifying, configuring, installing, commissioning and servicing power protection solutions across a wide range of applications. Ideal for consultants and electrical engineers, KUP offers free technical seminars to keep you up to date with the latest power protection specification and selection requirements and the latest technology available.

Available CPD (CIBSE Approved) Seminars

The content of our seminars has been independently certified as conforming to CPD guidelines, by the Chartered Institute of Building Services Engineers. Typically, held over a lunch-time, a specialist trainer will visit your site and the seminar will last approximately 1 hour. CPDs can now be held online via video conferencing to suit all requirements.

CPD 1:

UPS – Designing Resilient UPS Systems

Designing Resilience
True N+1 with DPA UPS Systems
Configuring a UPS battery system for resilience
Configuring a UPS System – Checklist
Q&A

CPD 2:

UPS & Fault Clearance & Neutral Earthing

Fault Clearance:

How does the UPS react to a downstream fault
Fault clearance with static bypass
Fault clearance without static bypass
Earth fault loops
Inverter Specifications

Neutral Earthing:

Basics
4 Pole Chageover
Earth Leakage
Solutions

CPD 3:

Emergency Lighting (1 or 2 hours options)

Standards & Legislation Overview, including risk, responsibility & competence
Types of Emergency Lighting
Lighting Levels
Design Decisions
- Exit Signs
- Point of Emphasis
- Escape Routes
- open Areas
- Defined Location – Lifts, Escalators, Toilets, Plant Rooms, Car Parks, Kitchens and First Aid Points
System Integrity
Central Suppliers
System Documentation and Records

CPD 4:

UPS Room Planning and Considerations

Space Requirements
Environment
Battery Requirements
Maintenance

These seminars can contribute to your CIBSE CPD requirement and following the seminar, all attendees will receive a CPD certificate, certified by CIBSE. Our certificate of course provision can be found here:

KUP – CPD Course Provider Certificate

CPD 5:

Battery Monitoring

Use of Volt-free contacts
Network Connections: SNMP and Modbus
UPS Remote Monitoring
RCCMD
Environment Management and Monitoring
Battery Management and Monitoring

CPD 6:

UPS for Healthcare Applications

Overview of UPS fundamentals, output performance
Main components and Transformer based vs Transformer-free UPS technology
Dual sources and isolation transformers
Fault clearance: How a UPS operates in a downstream short circuit (including HTM 06-01)
UPS battery requirements in healthcare applications
Selecting a UPS in a healthcare environment

CPD 7:

Using UPS as Safety Services Secondary Supply

Why are UPS’s being used?
Using a UPS, the standards, regulations and guidelines
Fault clearance in accordance with BS:7671
Types of load used for life safety and considerations required
Battery types, management and monitoring
Installation and maintenance