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Total Solution to Earthing & Lightning Protection |
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Introduction
Technical advice, support & design services
Sharing knowledge and expertise with our customers has been a fundamental
ingredient to the success of our Total Solution approach to earthing and
lighting protection.
1 Lightning protection solutions | 2 Soil resistivity surveys | 3 Analysis & earthing design | 4 Earth resistance testing
1. Lightning protection
solutions
–– Team of experienced
engineers
–– Engineered designs to
meet client specifications
–– Risk assessment
complying to latest
standards
4. Earth resistance testing
–– Verification of earthing
design through
measurement
–– Experienced team of
engineers with full
understanding of electrode
testing
2. Soil resistivity surveys
–– Experienced surveyors
–– Key to creating effective
earthing system
–– Multiple readings taken to
ensure safe and accurate
designs
3. Analysis & earthing design
–– Latest CDEGS software to
optimize designs
–– Range of detailed reports
to clients requirements
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Lightning protection & earthing design
In order for us to design a structural and/or transient over-
voltage lightning protection system, we need the following
information:
–– Design standard, e.g. IEC/BS EN 62305, NFPA 780,
etc.
–– A dimensioned roof plan and external elevations
–– Construction details, e.g. steelwork, reinforced concrete,
roofing materials, etc
–– A single line diagram indicating voltage and current for
each electrical system, e.g. power, data, telephones,
fire alarms, CCTV
–– Details of essential equipment, e.g. network servers,
PLC controllers
To design a power earth electrode system, we need the
following information:
–– Design standard, e.g. BS 7430, BS 7354, Ansi IEEE Std 80,
ENA TS 41-24, etc.
–– A dimensioned site plan and overall electrical single line
diagram
–– Soil resistivity survey results
–– Earth fault current magnitude (due consideration should be
given to the proportion of current flowing through cable sheaths
or the aerial earth wires of overhead transmission lines)
–– Earth fault current duration
Customer site surveys
Site surveys fully complement our in-house design services.
Through collation of all relevant information from a site,
including soil resistivity measurements and earthing analysis,
our engineers can produce bespoke earthing designs
complete with drawings, calculations and a detailed report,
along with a structural lightning protection system if required.
The benefits of coming to Furse
There are many benefits of coming to Furse for earthing,
lightning and electronic systems protection designs, including:
–– Specialist advice from a fully qualified technical team
–– Designs that comply with all relevant standards
–– Our responsibility for providing a design that is safe
–– Experience and the software to provide an ‘optimum’ design
–– Manufacturing experience & expertise
–– Engineers who actively participate in the development of
National and International standards