Every year I spend the holidays with my mother in Wisconsin. Each time I’m there, I look outside her living room window and see the lightning protection rod on the roof of the house across the street.

One of the less-common contracting specialties in northern New England is lightning protection for structures. Although damaging lightning strikes to buildings are less common here than in other ...

SINGAPORE — A photo of a lightning seemingly striking the side of a housing block in Queenstown went viral on social media last weekend (April 23). The photo, taken by a Facebook user named Mak Wei ...

It has been observed that installing a metal roof makes building owners think more about lightning and the dangers of lightning strikes. There is a perception, or at least a suspicion, that a metal ...

South Africa has an extensive medium-voltage overhead line electric distribution network supported mainly by wood poles. The predominant voltage is 22 kV between phases. Some of the lines traverse ...

A modern distribution system that feeds a facility having a significant environment of susceptible electronic equipment requires protection against lightning-induced overvoltages. And when an overhead ...

In the past couple of weeks, lightning claimed over 40 lives and injured many in different parts of the country. This is one of the many recent calamities that have left dozens of families grieving ...