Product category:
Lighting Services
News Release from: Omega Red Group
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 18 February 2008
Omega essential guide to new British
Standard
Omega Red Group has worked with the BSI and ATLAS to produce the industry guide to the practical application of the new Protection Against Lightning Standard BS EN 62305.
Mike Henshaw, Managing Director of Omega, wrote the manual aimed at architects, developers, specifiers, builders and lightning protection practitioners who, most of all need to understand and implement the biggest change to hit the industry in decades "The new Standard has many merits but it is long and complex and requires a complete rethink by lightning protection companies - its understanding and application require a complete change in systems, training, operations and organisation," says Henshaw
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 18 Aug 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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"I've written the BSI produced UK Guide to Protection Against Lightning as a practical guide to take the reader through the new Standard step-by-step, it is an essential tool for every lightning protection outfit as well as the construction industry.
Decisions made in ignorance will soon become a lot more costly once the new Standard is introduced later this year, people simply won't be able to carry on as before.
"Omega has put all of its existing engineers and designers through a rigorous training programme regarding the new Standard, training is being developed to include every single one of our apprentices at the CITB (Construction Industry Training Board) training centre at Bircham Newton.
What disturbs me is how few of my colleagues in the lightning protection industry I see taking similar extensive steps and the implications of that inactivity for the construction industry as a whole.
Hopefully this guide will address that problem".
The new British Standard has been brought up to date to include modern protection techniques and will run in parallel with the existing Standard (BS6651:1999) for a transitional period before replacing it at the end of August 2008.
Omega employs more than 220 people and supports the rail, construction, power, telecoms and renewable energy industries through its regional branches in Edinburgh, Manchester, Nottingham, London and Bristol.
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