grounding and electrical protection

Dan McMenamin and Associates is recognized internationally for its expertise in electronic system grounding and electrical protection. As a member of the Lightning Protection Institute, the National Fire Protection Association and a Senior Member Institute for Electronic and Electrical Engineers Power and Electronics Society, Dan McMenamin has led the industry in its efforts to protect people, systems and property. While with Verizon, Dan McMenamin helped write their grounding standards as well as serving on the planning committees that wrote Bellcore's (now Telcordia) Central Office Grounding training course and their TR-NWT-000295 Isolated Grounding practice.

DMA provides its customers with exceptional services for grounding and electrical protection. We're equipped to help you with Communications and other companies. We have close to a century of grounding experience in-house and after January of 2004 we anticipate doubling that talent pool to meet industry needs

We are trained and equipped to provide consulting services in all aspects of telecommunications Grounding and Electrical Protection systems including:

Megger testing and soil resistivity
Resistance ground system testing
Equalizers
Shelter, CEV, outdoor cabinet and Remote facility Grounding
Isolated and Integrated Ground Planes
Central office and MSC Grounding
Earthing Electrodes and buried rings, counterpoises, wellheads etc.
Carbonatious/cement systems, Euffer Ground Beds
Lightning Rod and air terminal systems
Tower and antenna grounding
Rooftop grounding
Transient Voltage Surge Suppressor systems

We offer these services to the industry at competitive rates:

On and off-site design review
Architect plan reviews to telephone company standards
Facility Ground audits
Standards
Training
Methods Of Procedure review
Product evaluation
Emergency response and restoral
Root Cause Analysis