Lightning Protection Concepts provides a full range of lightning protection solutions across all industry sectors. We are an independent and innovative consultancy firm established to provide local organisations with unsurpassed, highly comprehensive and innovative solutions and services to assist the market with its earthing and lightning protection requirements.
Through our collaboration with our partner companies, we aim to provide local organisations with advanced solutions and services, using innovative, compliant design principles in order to attain our top priority, which is to protect people from lightning. Further, we aim to introduce the market to an extended service offering which will extend the lightning protection arena into new directions that will safeguard properties across all areas of business, benefit communities, and provide insurance companies with increased certainties.
The combined expertise of Trevor Manas and Alexis Barwise allows Lightning Protection Concepts to offer all the planning, design, training, components and certifications that are required to successfully implement lightning protection solutions. Together, Trevor and Alexis offer the market a uniquely comprehensive range of services, covering the spectrum of surge and lightning protection systems, from external lightning protection through to earthing, surge protection devices, and electromagnetic capability. This collaboration offers our clients the most comprehensive and up-to-date solutions and services using innovative design principles that comply with the relevant standards.
2D & 3D Lightning Protection Designs
2D Drawings & 3D Planning
Risk Assessments for Structures and Buildings According to SANS / IEC 62305-2
Soil resistivity surveys provide valuable information in the design of the earth termination system.
Inspections, fault finding, problem solutions and maintenance.
The philosophies of Lightning Protection Concepts are founded on the unsurpassed knowledge, skills and experience of our founding directors. Both Trevor Manas and Alexis Barwise are very active in, and have an in-depth understanding of, the mechanics of the earthing and lightning protection industry.
The provision of professional engineering for earthing, lightning protection and surge protection systems that are effective, specific to the type of structure and unbiased to the installer or the suppliers, has become essential in our technologically advanced world.
Lightning Protection Concept’s design and engineering skills can provide protection for any type of structure in any kind of environment. Both Alexis and Trevor have design experience for most international standards including SANS, IEC, IEEE, AS/NZS, EN and NFPA/UL.
Alexis received his bachelor's degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering in 2007. He has written several technical articles and provided training courses in lightning and surge protection in several countries around the world.
While working for Schneider Electric, a global specialist in energy management, Alexis filled numerous roles as an electrical engineer. In 2012, Alexis was appointed as Managing Director of DEHN Africa and in 2017, he was appointed as Area Director for DEHN & SOHNE+Co for the Americas, Middle-East and Africa regions where he was exposed to different standards, design philosophies, and technologies.
He currently serves on various national and international standard and technical committees such as IEC TC81 and SANS 10142, and is chairing the SANS 10313. Alexis is a founding member and serves as vice-chairmen of Lightning Protection Practitioners. Throughout his career, Alexis has gained an indepth knowledge as an electrical design engineer, systems engineer and lightning protection engineer across several different industry sectors.
Trevor started his career as a lightning protection specialist in 1994. Over the past 20 years, he has been the chief lightning protection designer for over 5,000 projects worldwide, authored more than 20 white papers on various aspects of earthing and lightning and is a member of the SABS TC 067/ SC06 lightning protection working group. He set out to create a company that offers all the planning, design, training, and certification required to successfully implement a lightning protection solution that is fully compliant with both local and international standards.
His experience, insight and in-depth knowledge, as well as his ability to stay abreast of the latest developments in the earthing and lightning protection industry, has helped him to develop his reputation as a lightning protection professional. Trevor served as National Director of ELPA (the Earthing and Lightning Protection Association) in 2017 and 2018, during which time he developed the accreditation courses for lightning protection installers, designers and inspectors.
