Annual Report 2011-2012

Annual Research Report 2011-2012
Overhead Line Structures Test Station
Research Center: Transmission & Distribution Research Department
Department: Overhead Line Structure Group
Lab Manager: Behzad Bahraamsary
Lab staff: Ali Darban, Alireza Rahnavard, Hamid Ebrahimi, Saeed Ghanbari
Scope of services:
• NRI Overhead-Line Structures Test Station (NRI-OSTS) is the largest and most
equipped tower test center in the Middle East which performs type/sample tests
on power transmission towers according to the international standard of IEC
60652-2002 with very reasonable prices.
• NRI-OSTS as the largest laboratory of NRI is located in Arak in 170,000 square
meters area, about 250km south of Tehran, and is one of the in-house reference
laboratories of Iran's ministry of Energy.
• NRI-OSTS is the first tower test station in the world accredited by Germany's
DAP institute to obtain the international quality certificate of testing laboratories
ISO/IEC 17025:2005 and operates as an internationally creditable test station.
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