Skypro

Lightning Protection System

Save Lives And Protect Your Valuables In Buildings Using Proper Lightning Protection System

Lightning is a sudden electrostatic discharge that poses a threat to human life and causes damage to property. Hence, we seek to mitigate the risks associated with lightning, reducing potential damages and losses. Due to the proliferation of high-rise buildings, the risks of lightning strikes and surges have increased, thus new standards have been recommended for the protection of buildings and structures against lightning.

Part 1: General Principles:

It provides general principles to be followed for protection of structures against lightning, including their installations and contents, as well as persons.

Part 2: Risk Assessment:

Its purpose is to provide a procedure for the evaluation of such a risk. Once an upper tolerable limit for the risk has been selected, this procedure allows the selection of appropriate protection measures to be adopted to reduce the risk to or below the tolerable limit.

Part 3: Protection of structures & Life Hazards:

Protection, in and around a structure, against physical damage and injury to living beings due to touch and step voltages.

Part 4: Protection of electrical & electronic systems within structures:

Lightning as a source of harm is a very high energy phenomenon. Lightning flashes releases many hundreds of mega-joules of energy. When compared with the mini-joules of energy that may be sufficient to cause damage to sensitive electronic equipment in electrical and electronic systems within a structure, it is clear that additional protection measures will be necessary to protect some of these equipments, The need for this international standard has arisen due to the increasing cost of failures of electrical and electronic systems, caused by electromagnetic effects of lightning.

Of particular importance are electronic systems used in data processing and storage as well as process control and safety for plants of considerable capital cost, size and complexity (for which plant outages are very undesirable for cost and safety reasons.)