Floyd Lau: Founder of Amptek Technologies
Floyd Lau founded Amptek Technologies in 2002 as an end to end engineering design company, but it has since grown to produce its own product brand that is now entering the IoT and lighting market.
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Smart Building Market to Quadruple by 2022
The global smart building market is projected to grow from an estimated $US7.42 billion in 2017 to $US31.74 billion by 2022, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 33.7%, according to a new market report. A growing need for integrated security and safety systems and decreasing operational costs are some of the major factors driving the market.
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Keeping the Gate Closed, and Other Non-Negotiables
I spent most of my formative years growing up in a northern British Columbia community, which was primarily geared around agriculture. In some ways it seemed like I had two lives, as about half of my friends lived in town whereas the others spent their time, when they weren’t in school or playing baseball, working on their family farms.
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Troubleshoot Electrical Systems Safer and Faster with New Tester: Part 1
For many years, electricians and technicians looking for a quick current reading have reached for an electrical tester, a personal everyday tool seen in tool belts the world over. For example, with Fluke’s T5 you slide the open fork around a conductor and safely measure AC current up to 100 amps. No need to clamp the fork shut or break the circuit.
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Regulator Involvement in Writing the CE Code: Guiding Safe Installations for More Than 80 Years
The Canadian Electrical Code, Part I, is an integral part of the Canadian electrical safety system — a system that works hard by design to keep, electricians, consumers, and the public safe from harm.
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Electrical Engineering Design Median Hourly Rate by Province
Saskatchewan leads Canada with the highest Hourly rate for electrical engineers. Alberta comes in second.
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Electrical Engineering Hourly Rates
General electricians earn on average $13 more an hour than electrical technicians and engineers.
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Value of Building Permits Issued in July Declines 3.5%
Canadian municipalities issued $7.9 billion worth of building permits in July, down 3.5% from June and the first decrease since March 2017. Lower construction intentions for commercial buildings and multi-family dwellings were mainly responsible for the national decline. The total value of permits was down in seven provinces, led by lower construction intentions for multi-family dwellings and commercial buildings in Ontario.
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How One Hospital Is Improving Patient Care with Advanced Analytics
Demand for healthcare is outstripping capacity, but Toronto’s Humber River Hospital has a solution: a digital Command Centre powered by GE’s Wall of Analytics. As populations grow and age, many hospitals are being stretched past their limits. Rather than apply temporary or partial fixes to address the challenges that underlie this busy, acute care hospital, Toronto’s Humber River Hospital has chosen to implement a holistic, state-of-the-art hospital command centre that will enable it to achieve radical gains in quality and efficiency.
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Creating the World’s Most Connected Bridge
An iconic architectural feature of the Montreal skyline by day, the Jacques Cartier Bridge now shines with an innovative lighting signature that celebrates the unique engineering of its historic structure. Thanks to intelligent programming connected in real time to big data and social media networks, this bridge is by most measures the most connected bridge in the world.
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Joe’s Gone. Now What?!
In May, Statistics Canada released data from the 2016 census reporting that seniors now outnumber children for the first time in the survey’s history. The percentage of those aged 65 and older climbed to 16.9% of Canada’s population, exceeding the share of those under 15 years old at 16.6%.
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Electrical Estimator Annual Salary Overview
Electrical estimators earn little in the way of profit sharing and bonuses in the Canadian Electrical Industry.
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Relighting the National Bank of Canada’s Trading Floor
The National Bank of Canada’s Montreal headquarters possesses a Grand Hall that is an ornate masterpiece. Its rose, Italian Tavernelle marble walls, Corinthian colonnades of syenite, with black Belgian marble bases, its bronze railings and door frames, golden ornamented moulding, ceiling panels, and large colonnades are a majestic throwback to a bygone era. The lighting design needed to accentuate and celebrate this historic structure’s arresting grandeur without washing out the ornate details, while also creating a functional and welcoming workplace.
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Creating Dynamic Functional Lighting for an Architectural Firm
Vigilant Global, a Montreal-based research, development and information technology company, mandated Provencher Roy to redesign its offices in Montreal. LumiGroup, a key collaborator in lighting for the project assisted the interior designers in enhancing each room with lighting adapted for a refined, modern and dynamic environment.
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Q2 Residential Construction Investment Up 7.7% YOY
Residential construction investment in Canada totalled $33.2 billion in the second quarter, up 7.7% from the same quarter in 2016. Higher investment in every component except cottages contributed to the total quarterly increase. Investment in renovations totalled $15 billion (up 6.6%) and accounted for almost 40% of the year-over-year change at the national level. Investment in single-family dwellings was up 12.9% to $7.4 billion, while acquisition costs related to new dwellings rose 8.2% to $3.7 billion.
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Guide to the Canadian Electrical Code, Part I — Instalment 28
In this article: Section 56 — Optical fibre cables. Section 56 is a supplementary or amendatory section of the code and applies to the installation of optical fibre cables in conjunction with all other electrical systems. Rule 56-002 provides a special terminology definition for an Optical Fibre Cable — a cable consisting of one or more optical fibres that transmits modulated light for the purpose of control, signalling or communications.
