Alain Rousseau is nomminated as Ligning arrester committee international chairman(37A) of the international electrotechnical committe (IEC)

SEFTIM realized a lightning study for the INRA, near Nancy (France) to protect an equipments placed on a 20meters pole in forest (several anemometer connected to acquisition exchange, solar panels, weather implements, … ) going over the canopy by at least 5 meters. After risks estimation, the solution was mainly constituted by lightning arrester, armor-plating, using a simple shaft ligtning rod to protect the higher equipment.

As every year and for the thirteenth consecutive times, APF’s members are pleased to invite you to the traditionnal forum, taking place November, Tuesday the 25th, 2014, from 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM in the C.S.E.E.E. auditorium, 10 Rue du débarcadère, Paris 17ème.

As you know, this forum is an opportunity to met each other, share your lightning’s experience, its effects on goods and peoples, phenomenology, prevention, protection system, standards, etc.

The complete schedule will be communicated as soon as beginning of september.

Joining this forum is free, don’t hesitate to invite your colleagues or associates to this day.

The registration’s terms are lowered: ‘Students : 20€, APF members : 30€, non APF members : 50€) and allow to participate to the forum, the lunch and coffee break, stakeholders papers copy

During July, SEFTIM organized two trainings to lightning protection system installer’s. This, 6 days long,  training shows the importance of the investment realized by the installer in order to fit to Qualifoudre requirement.

From June, 23th to June 27th, the board of standards for lightning protection, to whom participate Seftim, met in order to discuss about the new standards for lightning protection for direct and photovoltaics current.

This meeting xas the occasion to visit some Korean Laboratories.

In June, Seftim organized a convention about new international standards on Lightning protection

The topics discussed was :

1. Introduction : risk due to lightning
2. Surge Protective Devices
3. Lightning protection trends

• direct stroke protection
• earthing measurement
• risk evaluation

after this convention, an article was published in the french newspaper l’Express : Read the paper

May, the 12th & 13th, 2014, SEFTIM took part to the annual congress of the CIGRE in Lyon, France.

During this congress, SEFTIM was involved as member of the scientific board, member of the organizer board, and presenter of a paper.

Read the paper : Lightning strike-point density for risk assessment

Read the program : Program

As every year and for the thirteenth consecutive times, APF’s members are pleased to invite you to the traditionnal forum, taking place November, Tuesday the 25th, 2014, from 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM in the C.S.E.E.E. auditorium, 10 Rue du débarcadère, Paris 17ème.

As you know, this forum is an opportunity to met each other, share your lightning’s experience, its effects on goods and peoples, phenomenology, prevention, protection system, standards, etc.

The complete schedule will be communicated as soon as beginning of september.

Joining this forum is free, don’t hesitate to invite your colleagues or associates to this day.

The registration’s terms are lowered: ‘Students : 20€, APF members : 30€, non APF members : 50€) and allow to participate to the forum, the lunch and coffee break, stakeholders papers copy

From April, 20th to 25th, Seftim gave a congress in China, first in Shanghai, on the Grandtop Laboratory, then in Shenzhen and Haerbing.

The congress broaches the following subjects :

• Future of lightning protection standardization
• Lightning risks analysis : application in France, futur regulatory context
• News in lightning capture means and experimentation
• Lightning ground socket

April 21th, Alain Rousseau has been nominated as senior consultant of Shenzhen Meteorological Service Center.