A corporate landlord on a busy tech park outside Reading committed to fitting sixteen EV chargers across two staff car parks. The mix — eight 50kW rapid and eight 22kW fast — meant a new HV supply was needed alongside the LV distribution to the bay positions.
Tenants needed parking available at all times, which meant phased bay closures rotating across the car parks rather than full shutdowns.
What the job involved
- 90m of 11kV supply cable pulled and jointed into a new packaged sub.
- 240m of LV distribution to charger bay positions across two car parks.
- Sixteen charger feeder terminations made ready for the charger installer.
- Permanent reinstatement to corporate paving spec with matching line markings.
- Tenant communication co-ordinated with the landlord's facilities team weekly.
Key challenges
- Phased bay closures rotated weekly — programme planned around tenant occupancy.
- One car park had a buried sprinkler main mid-route — survey caught it before any dig.
- Charger OEM commissioning team needed bays ready in batches — accelerated phase 1 by a week.
Outcome
- All sixteen chargers commissioned on schedule across both phases.
- Zero tenant parking complaints recorded by the facilities team.
- Landlord asked us to scope a third phase for their adjacent site.
Charging projects on busy tech parks normally have someone shouting about parking. Not this one. They sequenced it properly.
— Facilities Director, Reading, Berkshire
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