Britech is one of Canada’s oldest and largest companies in the electric heating cable industry. Britech entered the electric floor warming and snow melting industry in 1996 when it became the exclusive Canadian representative for one of the first electric floor warming systems available in Canada.
The legalization of recreational cannabis has given new life to an ongoing workplace concern: how to reduce the risk of impairment.
This graph shows certifications and their correlation to hourly pay. An interesting trend of those surveyed is journeyman electrician studies pay on average $4 more than a electrical engineering degree.
Open office design has exploded in popularity over the last 20 years. In fact, the New Yorker magazine claims that approximately 70% of all offices now have an open floor plan.[1]
How did we get here?
This discussion of Appendix J -Annex J20 is based on the 24th edition. The Code is a comprehensive document. Sometimes it can seem quite daunting to quickly find the information you need.
Skills for electrical foremen are relatively level with respect to average pay, with the exception of blueprints, which may be more of an indication of those surveyed than the industry as a whole. The average hourly wage overall is $37.62.
Do you know the first question you should ask before opening an electrical enclosure? Plant managers, building maintenance staff and electrical repair personnel repeat the question “Is it safe?” so often that it’s practically a mantra.
One of the biggest frustrations I hear from my clients is the amount of time and effort it takes for them to put together proposals, particularly those that don’t end up winning the business.
Data centres are vital elements of our modern world, securely facilitating delivery of the most valued commodity today, our data. They house assorted bandwidth-intensive devices, like blade servers, storage systems, virtualization appliances and backup devices connected by a significant volume of networked cabling and electrical wiring.
Pay increases with years of experience until a certain point. See the point at which pay starts to decrease.
The other day I came across an interesting article that takes us back to some early innovations regarding the use of electric motors in manufacturing facilities. The article titled “The Electric Motor in Factories”, and was published in Science by the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1889.
As more and more intelligent cars and autonomous vehicles hit the road, some engineers are thinking about what can be done to smarten up the streets on which they travel.
This graph shows popular skills for electrical engineers and their correlation to average salary. Project management correlates most among those earning the highest salaries. See which skill correlates with the lowest salaries.
Network crews were working in an electrical room tasked to install an 800 A disconnect for a temporary service on the network secondary. The 3-spot network was energized at 480 V on the secondary (34.5 kV on the primary) and all three network protectors were closed and serving load.
Products with variable LED drive current to maintain light output over time: some products incorporate electronic controls that adjust the LED drive current during long-term operation to maintain light output near initial performance levels. This product design will affect the LED lumen maintenance.
If you are lucky, there will be a veteran in your shop that will pass their knowledge of good machining practices on to all the rookies who come aboard. Most of the knowledge they possess will be priceless, but there are a lot of myths about balancing floating around out there.
This project is funded [in part] by the Government of Canada.
Ce projet est financé [en partie] par le gouvernement du Canada.
