Ever since 2006, I.L.P.A. intends to make the inventory of scientific, technical and practical elements backing up modern lightning protection, in order to push forward lightning protection techniques revolving around Early Streamer Emission (ESE) lightning protection systems.
Composed of various actors from the lightning protection world, ILPA is an international conglomerate looking for the best solutions to protect people and buildings from lightning strikes. It is behind this idea that manufacturers, designers, scientists and users of lightning protection decided to get together.
ILPA also organizes the International Lightning Protection Symposium, an international scientific conference offering an open-minded tribune to scientists and research teams on lightning phenomenology, protection systems, grounding and equipotential design, detection systems….