ENERGY / LIGHTNING PROTECTION
Protect before impact.
We assess risk, design and integrate external and internal protection systems to reduce exposure of people, equipment and critical infrastructure to lightning and transient overvoltages.
PRINCIPLE
A lightning protection system does not end at the air terminal. It works as an architecture: interception, down conductors, grounding, equipotential bonding and surge protection must operate as one system.
PROTECTION WORKFLOW
From risk to a verifiable architecture.
Protection is designed as a coordinated sequence. Each stage influences the next and must respond to the actual facility.
PROTECTION ARCHITECTURE
Lightning crosses an entire system.
External and internal protection must be coordinated with grounding and equipotential bonding. Treating them separately leaves weak points between subsystems.
Risk assessment
The facility, exposure, continuity requirements and sensitive assets are characterized before defining the protection architecture.
Interception
Selection and arrangement of the interception system according to site geometry, required protection level and applicable technical framework.
Down conductors
Conduction paths designed to transfer current to ground while reducing unintended paths and potential differences.
Grounding
The discharge path must integrate with a measured and engineered grounding system as part of total facility protection.
Equipotential bonding
Coordination among structures, grounding, metallic services and electrical systems to control potential differences during transient events.
Surge protection
Coordinated SPDs by protection level help limit conducted surges reaching panels, control systems, telecommunications and sensitive electronics.
SYSTEM FAMILIES
Select technology after understanding the site.
There is no universal solution. The appropriate alternative depends on site assessment and the applicable technical and regulatory framework.
Conventional systems
Architectures based on air terminals and protection meshes designed around the facility and required protection level.
Early streamer emission systems
They may be evaluated as an alternative where the regulatory framework, jurisdiction and project conditions allow. Selection must be technically justified for each site.
Internal protection / SPD
Coordinated transient overvoltage protection for power, control, data and telecommunications, integrated with grounding and equipotential bonding.
Note: selection, sizing and compliance of any system must be validated against project conditions and the standards applicable in the relevant jurisdiction.
WHEN TO ASSESS
When should protection be reviewed?
A review should not begin only after damage occurs. Exposure, criticality and infrastructure changes are already sufficient reasons to assess the system.
APPLICATIONS
Protection connected to critical infrastructure.
Lightning protection naturally intersects with energy, control, telecommunications, data centers and security.
Oil & GasData CentersTelecommunicationsIndustrial infrastructureEnergy & UtilitiesCritical systems
LIGHTNING PROTECTION
Protect the facility as a system.
We can begin with a review of exposure, existing architecture, grounding and internal protection to define the appropriate project scope.
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