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Kim Loehr is the marketing communications consultant for the Lightning Protection Institute (LPI). She is also a registered course provider with the Lightning Safety Alliance (LSA) and its national Continuing Education Service (CES). Loehr is also a member of the Lightning Safety Awareness Team, in partnership with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA); the National Fire Protection Association’s (NFPA’s) Building Fire Safety Systems Section; and the National Federation of Press Women (NFPW).
Lightning protection systems are sophisticated networks that incorporate strike termination devices, lightning current conductors, bonding conductors, ground electrodes and lightning surge protection devices.
Lightning protection systems are sophisticated networks that incorporate strike termination devices, lightning current conductors, bonding conductors, ground electrodes and lightning surge protection devices. While the lightning risk for a structure is often the product of the lightning frequency and the consequence of the strike to the structure, designers typically consider a variety of factors when laying out a system plan.
