Lightning Protection Design and Site Surveys
Engineered to Your Needs
Lightning follows the physics of least resistance, but no two facilities present the same risk. Rooflines, structural steel, soil composition, equipment layout, even regional storm patterns all change your site’s exposure to lightning risk.
LEC brings more than 150 years of combined field engineering experience to turn that complexity into a protection strategy built specifically for your facility — not adapted from someone else's.
Our work begins long before any system is sold. LEC's site surveys and design studies form the technical foundation for a lightning protection solution that fits your facility – not a generic package pulled off a shelf.
What Our Lightning Protection Site Surveys Evaluate
- Facility layout & structures. We map building footprints, elevations, rooflines, and adjacent structures to identify strike points and shadowing effects that generic assessments often miss.
- Environmental exposure. Coastal salt air, industrial airborne contaminants, humidity, and temperature extremes are catalogued and factored into material selection and long-term durability.
- Existing grounding & exposure. We test current grounding infrastructure and soil resistivity, and evaluate exposure to secondary effects — induced surges, ground potential rise — not just direct strikes.
- Operational & safety requirements. Personnel movement, critical processes, and safety protocols are built into the design, so protection never interferes with how your facility actually runs.
- Code & standards alignment. Findings are benchmarked against recognized lightning protection standards and any applicable insurance or regulatory requirements, so the resulting design is defensible from day one.
Why It Matters A proposed lightning protection solution is only as good as the analysis behind it. A system engineered for the wrong risk profile can fail on the one day it matters most. LEC's studies ensure every recommendation is technically sound, defensible, and engineered to mitigate the specific risks of your site, not simply designed to look compliant on paper.
The LEC Difference
Every survey is grounded in decades of field-tested engineering experience, not lab theory alone. The result is a design study that stands up to scrutiny from engineers, insurers, and regulators alike.
