The article by Prof. Eduard M. Bazelyan is published at our website Lightning Protection at the Construction Site».
The article analyzes regulatory documents RD 34.21.122-87 and SO-153-34.21.122-2003 from the viewpoint of their use in the lightning protection design at the construction site.
The article contains six parts and provides answers to main questions on the personnel and equipment safety at the construction site:
- What soil condition analysis methods are the most appropriate before building a foundation?
- What challenges do designers face in arranging grounding electrodes and measuring grounding resistance of the foundation that has been built?
- Why does the lightning protection need to be designed according to the limit of lightning breakthroughs to the protected facility rather than the lightning arrester reliability level? How significant is the region where the protected facility is located?
- What specifics exist when choosing the LPS design for high-rise facilities under construction? What is an upward discharge and should we consider it in calculations, or is it enough to consider downward lightning discharges only?
- How to provide personnel safety at the construction site considering that the facility becomes increasingly higher? What LPS type is the most convenient for this?
- How efficiently does a high-rise building at the construction site operate as a natural lightning arrester for adjacent low-rise structures? Are step and touch voltages occurring at each lightning strike dangerous for the personnel?
You can find answers to these and other questions in an article by Prof. Eduard M. Bazelyan here.
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