Panels and meter enclosures for shopping plazas

A meter enclosure groups the meters of all the units in a metal cabinet with reading windows. Done well, it lets the utility read without opening anything, lets the manager know which meter belongs to whom and lets a new unit be connected without taking the others apart.

We make it to fit the number of units and the space available, with the sheet laser-cut and bent in our plant, painted and fitted with its QR-code plate.

Besides the meters, a plaza has common areas with their own consumption: car-park lighting, signs, pumps, corridor air conditioning and lifts. We assemble the panels for those areas and, if you wish, connect them to measure consumption, voltage and temperature and send alerts to your phone.

For the developer, that means knowing what the common areas really cost to run, a useful figure when setting the service charge.

The plaza’s structure, the pierced-metal façade, the totems and signs, and the panels all come out of the same plant. Coordinating them through one supplier avoids a sign arriving with no circuit, or a panel with nowhere to be mounted.

Plazas change tenants, and every change touches the electrics. The Energy Plan checks the panels with a thermal camera, tightens connections, cleans and tests the transfer switch with the generator. The Complete Plan adds remote monitoring, priority service when something fails and a visit calendar with automatic reminders.

To prepare the quote it helps to have the plaza drawing with the location of the electrical room, the number of units and their approximate load, and the load list for the common areas. If the plaza is already open, a few photos of the current panels are enough to start. We send a clear price, with what it includes and the delivery time, split into meter enclosures, common-area panels and monitoring.