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Observation - Lightning Protection System - : Building 10A 10B 10C

1. The lightning protection systems for buildings 10A, 10B, and 10C require upgrades to meet protection standards. 2. Key issues include the solid copper conductor on the roof being too small in diameter, insufficient down conductors connecting to the ground, and not enough air terminals along the roof edges. 3. Recommendations include installing a solid copper conductor with the minimum required diameter, adding more down conductors spaced 10 meters apart connected to earth electrodes underground, and increasing the number of air terminals along roof edges to properly integrate all metallic components.

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Observation - Lightning Protection System - : Building 10A 10B 10C

1. The lightning protection systems for buildings 10A, 10B, and 10C require upgrades to meet protection standards. 2. Key issues include the solid copper conductor on the roof being too small in diameter, insufficient down conductors connecting to the ground, and not enough air terminals along the roof edges. 3. Recommendations include installing a solid copper conductor with the minimum required diameter, adding more down conductors spaced 10 meters apart connected to earth electrodes underground, and increasing the number of air terminals along roof edges to properly integrate all metallic components.

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OBSERVATION - Lightning Protection System -

Building 10A 10B 10C

The following problems / measures for the Lightning Protection System come equally
to all 3x buildings to bear:
On the parapet on roof top of the buildings a Bare Solid Copper Conductor should be
installed together with a mesh pattern by of size 5x5 mtr. which is mounted on the
roof top.
According Standard of class 1 of LPS (BS EN / IEC 62305-3) the technical
requirement are:

1. - Required at least is a solid bare copper conductor with cross sectional area
of 50 mm = 8 mm dia.
But partly mounted is a bare solid copper conductor with a cross sectional area of 19
mm = 5 mm dia. This copper conductor is far below the minimum required value
and indiscriminately placed on the floor or hanging out at the faade.

2. - Afterwards a down conductor with test terminals should be mounted by


spacing of approx. 10 mtrs. and connected to the roof bare solid copper conductor ( (
( 3x pcs. at present installed but approx. 15x pcs. required ).

2.1 At ground level, the down conductor shall end within a floor mounted
inspection pit/box. ( At building 10B 3x existing Down Conductors disappear
underground picture # 6., 7., 7.1 ).

2.1.1 Inside the pit/box position the down conductor has to be connected together
with a 3 mtr. long alloy earth electrode which previously got driven into the ground
soil.
If it is possible, connections ( clamped, welded ) to the building re-bar / steel
structure should be included.

3. - The roof edge area should be equipped with air terminal rods by the length
of 80 cm ( 4x pcs. at present but approx. 24x pcs. for all 3x bldgs. required ).

3.1 - All metallic parts have to be straight connected and integrated to this roof
mesh system.
That would be like:

3.1.1 - Antenna, satellite dish, AC compressor unit, Ac window unit, metallic roof
structure, water washing basin & pipe, air vent. pipe, metallic parts of bridge, metallic
parts of sun protection etc.

3.1.2 - Air terminal rods have to be close placed and connected to:
Upstanding deck plates, AC compressor unit, satellite dish etc.
Photographic record:

Building 10A
- Roof Lightning Protection:
Picture # 1., 1.1

Building 10B
- Roof Lightning Protection:
Picture # 2., 2.1, 4., 4.1

- Ground Floor Inspection Pit missing:


Picture # 6., 7., 7.1

Building 10C
- Roof Lightning Protection
Picture # 3., 3.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5., 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4

Recommendation

The installation of this essential protection and life safety system is an utmost
priority.

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