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Workshop series on Lightning
Protection November - 2007
Bangalore
Date & Venue: 12th and 13th November 2007
Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
Bangalore, Karnataka, India Chennai
Date & Venue: 14th and 15th November 2007
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)
Chennai, Tamilnadu, India
Coimbatore
Date & Venue: 16th and 17th November 2007
Hotel CAG Pride
Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India Kochi
19th and 20th November 2007
Human Productivity Centre
Kochi, Kerala, India
Report
Faculty:
Dr. Chandima Gomes, BSc, PhD, CEng (UK), CPhys (UK)
A Senior Lecturer in Physics, Colombo University
Prof. (Dr). G.R. Nagabhushana, AICTE Emeritus Fellow
High Voltage Engineering Division, IISc, Bangalore
Dr. S. Murali Das, Scientist,
Centre for Earth Science Studies, Thiruvananthapuram
Mr. R.Ganesan, Senior Scientist (Retd)
SAMEER – Centre for Electromagnetics, Chennai, India
Mr. S. Gopakumar, Managing Director
Cape Electric India Pvt. Ltd, Chennai, India
Mr. K.V. Varadharajan, General Manager
Cape Electric India Pvt. Ltd, Chennai, India
This well thought two-day workshops were organized with the aim
of creating awareness and engineering skill among the
participants in the area of Lightning Physics, Importance of
lightning protection, Design, development, installation and
maintenance of lightning protection systems. It also addressed
the safety concerns of human beings, livestock and house-hold
property.
The program was resourced by eminent speakers of international
repute with vast knowledge and expertise in the field of
lightning protection systems application and engineering. Since
the workshop was planned and scheduled well in time, the
response from the industries, government and private
establishments, R&D institutions was overwhelming. Opportunity
was given to participants to have free interaction with speakers
in each session in expressing their view points. Each workshop
ended with panel discussion and the feed back received from the
delegates was excellent.
The media coverage of the workshop was very encouraging. The
outcome of this two-day workshop would be seen in much larger
perspective. The message of lightning protection is getting
percolated at all levels. Architects and systems designers have
started realizing the importance of lightning protection at the
early stage of the structural design and cost-effective methods
exists at international level. The similar awareness program in
the form of workshops and seminars in future at other major
cities in India may help to reach more people. In the coming
days, there will be more demand on better lightning protection
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