Assessments & Audits

High-Rise Building Lightning Protection

Avoid costly structural and services damage to your building while also improving safety, by ensuring your lightning protection system is functional and compliant.

  • Testing & certification to AS/NZS 1768
  • Reduce risk of costly damage & loss of service
  • Non-invasive testing allows for business-as-usual
  • Minimise building insurance premiums

 
 

Safearth high-rise building lightning strike

 
 

High-rise buildings are particularly prone to lightning strike due to their prominence above ground level. As well as posing a significant safety hazard to people, lightning can result in damage or loss to building services including lifts, fire safety system, HVAC, lighting, electricity supply and communications infrastructure. This can significantly impact owners and tenants and be very costly to rectify.

While building insurance may respond to cover some of the losses, a well maintained Lightning Protection System (LPS) can prevent disruption and loss occurring in the first place. Regular testing of the LPS to AS/NZS 1768 is critical to ensuring its operational effectiveness. Moreover, many building insurers now incentivise this testing to be carried out as routine maintenance.

 
 

Safearth lightning protection system LPS testing
 

Testing

Safearth’s internationally-recognized test methods and equipment, especially in the hands of our experienced field technicians, allow comprehensive, non-invasive testing without disruption.
 

 
 

Safearth lightning protection design reference AS/NZS 1768
 

Certification

We can provide a certificate of compliance to AS/NZS 1768, assuring you, your tenants, and your insurer that the LPS is effective.
 

 
 

Safearth lightning protection
 

Key Benefits

  • Reduce risk of costly damage
  • Fewer interruptions to building services
  • Identify deterioration & damage from past strikes
  • Non-invasive testing allows for business-as-usual
  • Improve owner-tenant enjoyment
  • Fewer body corporate claims
  • Minimise building insurance premiums

 

 
 

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