Electrical Safety in Shopping Malls, Plazas and Commercial Centers

Comprehensive Management and Mass Consumption Systems Isolation Solutions

Plazas and shopping malls, where hundreds of thousands of people enter and exit daily, are powered by massive electrical transformers capable of illuminating a small city. How should the fire protection safety chain of all stores and escalators be isolated?


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Complex Energy Networks at the Center of Commercial Speed

Shopping malls and massive office buildings are complex mega-environmental architectures where hundreds of different tenant stores, food courts, and parking levels share energy within the same building. The AES Innovation team monitors and assigns safety measures for fire, leakage relay, and busbar energy distribution risks within the main building management system (BMS), independently of commercial tenants.


Incorrect decorative lighting within each store can cause a phase shift in the system's massive power corridor (Main Panel), sabotaging the power supply to the entire floor. Selectivity tests are vital in these enormous structures.

Busbar Line, Common Area and Selective Panel Tests

Analysis Process in Shopping Mall and Plaza Facilities

  • Switch Selectivity (Stage Opening) Control:
    When a malfunction occurs in a store, does only the circuit breaker (RCD) of that specific store trip, or does the main relay for the entire floor shut off? This hierarchy passes through our devices with millisecond-precise calculations.
  • Thermography of Busbar Current Transmission Systems:
    Incandescence caused by millimeter-sized loosening at the joint-bolt points of busbar channels, which transmit electricity vertically/horizontally with massive masses instead of classic cables, is measured thermally.
  • Parking Garage Charging (EV) and Ventilation Infrastructure:
    The grounding connections of dozens of vehicle charging circuits and jet-fan automation systems located in the building's enclosed parking garage, as well as the common area leakage relay checks, are approved.
  • Escalator and Elevator Panel Insulation:
    The leak insulation of the control panels and the reaction speed limits of the emergency evacuation generators of elevators that carry thousands of people daily are observed and certified.
WHY AES INNOVATION?

Your brands are valuable, the reputation of your building is priceless.

A billboard explosion in a massive shopping complex could result in billions of liras in damages due to media negative publicity surrounding the mall's brand. For your plaza management (facility management) teams, the most comfortable and undeniable legal security barrier is the AES Innovation corporate independent report. We formalize, with international standards, that all store owners benefit from the same secure communication line without any errors.

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International Standards and Related Legislation

The protection of public spaces is assessed according to the IEC 60364-7-718 directive. Additionally, the shared responsibility distribution limits of independent tenant panels and the main panels of the shopping mall are inspected according to TEDAŞ (Turkish Electricity Distribution Company) norms, within the framework of the 6331 Social Security Institution circulars.

Frequently Asked Questions

Legal limit questions for plaza management companies (Facility) and shopping mall technical managers.

As a rule, building management is responsible for inspections up to the 'main meter and main distribution panels (common areas)'. Tenant stores are legally obligated to prepare and submit a report on their internal installations (spotlights, etc.) within their own shutters to the shopping mall management (based on the area agreement).

This is a defect that needs to be corrected very urgently. The 1000 Amp load flowing from that busbar must be immediately bypassed, the bolt tightened (torque adjusted), and the camera recording confirmation renewed until the thermal glow is eliminated.

If a faulty kettle is plugged into a store in a shopping mall, and the store's relay doesn't trip in 0.4 seconds, but the fire relay on the main floor trips in 0.3 seconds; then, due to a single kettle, the entire floor, including the store's lighting and security cameras, will lose power. Our test determines this critical timing.

Yes, modern plazas offer main equipotential giant belt lines in the general distribution network. In store installations, the ground megger coefficient of this line is tested to look for breaks.