What is the Process for Installing a Lightning Protection System?

A Lightning Risk Assessment Only – No need for us to visit the site, we can gather all of the required information via electronic means and phone calls. This will provide you with a recommended protection level (LPS I through IV) and types of surge protection needed for your incoming services (electrical, telco, etc.). A Lightning Risk Assessment, eyeball survey and soil resistivity data – For this option we would go to the site and conduct an eyeball survey of the facility with minimal testing (clamp-on ground meter testing only). We would review the contents of the Lightning Risk Assessment as we understand it, look at the existing grounding systems and make recommendations for improvements (ground ring for the Lightning Protection System and possible 5-ohm clean ground source for the sensitive equipment). We would want to look inside some of their electrical panels and conduct an electrical one-line review. The soil resistivity test would be conducted outside of the building and would give us the raw data needed to design a 5-ohm ground. Also an understanding of how the power is distributed throughout the building will be important for the Lightning Risk Assessment and ground design. Lightning Risk Assessment and Full Grounding Survey – This would be the same as #2 above but it would also include measurements of the existing grounding systems within the facility.