Projects

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Twelve projects across student accommodation, schools, sports venues, care housing, aerospace and airside infrastructure, each designed, installed and tested to the standard the building is judged against.

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Student accommodation · 2025 to 2026

Owlstone Croft, Cambridge

Design, supply, installation, testing and certification of six separate Class IV lightning protection systems to two accommodation blocks and four terraces, plus a UKPN substation earth.

Structures protected: 6
Contract value: £18,900
Protection class: IV

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Residential · 2026

73 Bridge Road East, Welwyn Garden City

Level IV protection to two new buildings using the structural frame as down conductors and the pile foundations as the earth electrode, with a 20 x 20 m aluminium mesh and bonded roof handrails.

Down conductor positions: 25
Dedicated earth rods: 0
Site attendances: 4

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Sports · 2023

QPR Training Ground

Lightning protection to a new steel framed training ground building using 13 structural columns as down conductors and 13 pile caps as the earth termination, with an aluminium tape air termination at roof level.

Columns as down conductors: 13
Pile cap earth connections: 13
External down tapes: 0

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Sports · 2021

AELTC Somerset Road, Wimbledon

Full lightning protection system to a new steel framed building for the All England Lawn Tennis Club, using the frame as the down conductor and a 25 x 3 mm aluminium tape air termination.

Frame bond spacing: 20 m
External down tapes: 0
Operatives on site: 2

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Education · 2021

North Kent College, Dartford

Lightning protection to a new steel framed college building: frame bonded as the down conductor, 25 x 3 mm aluminium tape roof network and nine driven earth rods, delivered in four visits.

Driven earth rods: 9
Site visits: 4
Estimated site time: 4 days

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Education · 2021

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Tavistock Place

Crane earth and lightning protection earth termination network to the TP2 building, with rods driven to 6 m and connected to the steel frame.

Rod depth: 6 m
Operatives on site: 2
Every position swept: CAT and Genny

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Healthcare and extra care · Annual test 2024

Addenbrooke Extra Care, Gosport

Lightning protection to an extra care housing scheme using the metal roof as the air termination, 19 aluminium down conductors and 19 copper bonded earth rods, followed by annual testing.

Down conductors: 19
Earth rods: 19 x 2.4 m
2024 annual test: Pass

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Residential · 2025

Queens Park Court, London W10

Complete lightning protection to two occupied residential blocks under refurbishment: new external system to the small block and verification and extension of cast in conductors on the large block, with new earths.

New external down conductors: 4
Cast in tapes verified: 5
Phased programme: 2 weeks

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Education · 2020

Nonsuch High School for Girls, Cheam

Remedial lightning protection works to a steel framed school building during re roofing, using the frame as the down conductor and strike plates fitted after tiling.

Frame bond centres: 5 m
Site visits: 2
External down tapes: 0

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Utilities and substations · 2017 and 2018

Heathrow Airport, FEGP and Substation Earthing

One ohm earth installations to BS 7430 for fixed electrical ground power pits on numerous aircraft stands and for UKPN Substation 128, with deep driven rods in a live airside environment.

Target resistance: 1 ohm
Rod depth: 12 m
Site time per earth: About 1 day

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Aerospace and industrial · Commissioning

Airbus Stevenage, ITC

Witnessed testing and commissioning of the lightning protection system to the ITC building at Airbus Stevenage: visual inspection, continuity testing, fall of potential earth testing and certification to a ten ohm limit.

Maximum combined resistance: 10 ohms
Fall of potential probes: 30 m and 50 m
Witness demonstration: 1

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Testing and maintenance · 2026

Wembley High Technology College and East Lane Primary School

Annual test and inspection of the lightning protection systems on two school sites, seven structures and 38 earth electrodes, with one certificate per site and a defect flagged for remedial action.

Structures tested: 7
Electrodes tested: 38
Result: Pass, 1 Attention

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