Since the first offshore wind turbine was installed off the coast of Denmark nearly three decades ago, offshore wind has steadily increased in popularity. The market has grown by almost 30 percent per year since 2010, reflecting a rapid reshaping of the energy mix.
Canada’s wind power operations and maintenance (O&M) leaders have generated another one-of-a-kind resource to set the bar for health and safety in the industry. Wind energy site staff and contracted technicians are responsible for identification and resolution of a wide range of worn or damaged equipment on a wind farm.
Congratulations — you just made a sale! The customer trusted you enough to give you a try. That’s the good news. Unfortunately, having conducted sales training programs for over 25 years, I’ve also observed that gaining new customers also comes with bad news.
The entry level salary for electricians is 23% below the national average, however there is only a 4% change between salaries for mid-career and experienced electricians.
In the first of this two-part post, we’ll discuss the new and upcoming Wi-Fi 6 standards and the performance benefits. Our subsequent post will cover how to make sure that your cabling plant is ready.
As many different applications increasingly adopt Power over Ethernet (PoE) devices, such as phones, cameras, lighting, access controls, IDEAL Networks offers advice to help IT technicians handle everyday PoE troubleshooting scenarios.
My feet were cold. In my haste to run out the door that night when the pager chirped and informed me that it was time to get moving, I had neglected to put socks on. So now my feet were cold, and it was both distracting and inconvenient. Of course, with everything else that was going on at the moment it would have been hard to generate any sympathy from my colleagues, but still, they were cold.
It’s a nearly 2,100-mile drive from his home in Newfoundland to the jobsite in western Pennsylvania. But Damian Hogan jumped at the chance to join construction crews at the Shell Pennsylvania Chemical project north of Pittsburgh.
Will West is a first-year apprentice working in the solar industry with Hakai Energy Solutions. Will was able to qualify for the Ideal Industries 2019 National Championships as the top apprentice from the Canada A Region.
Almost 80% of electrical engineers in Canada have less than 10 years of experience, which may bode well for the future of the industry.
It’s a new year, and a new decade (depending on whether you believe the decade begins with year zero or year 1), but manufacturing safety challenges keep expanding: digital transformation, fewer available workers, globalization, and how to manage safety and security risks among them.
As the spread of COVID-19 rapidly increases around the world, companies are beginning to prepare for the possible impact of the virus on their operations.
The total value of building permits issued by Canadian municipalities increased 4.0% to $9.2 billion in January. Increases were reported in six provinces, led by British Columbia (+52.1% to $2.2 billion).
With their new REEL-X fish tape line, Greenlee aimed to alleviate the aggravation and wasted energy associated with jamming and binding fish tapes when fishing wire and cable.
“It’s definitely the Olympics of our trade,” said Lance Giesbrecht of the Ideal National Championships, “I’m one of the people who live and breathe for that competition. It’s a great thing, they’re bringing life to the trade,” he added…
Today’s data centres need to be fast, dense, scalable, cost effective and energy efficient. The push to handle high data volume and data rates is skyrocketing as Internet traffic inside data centres grows. According to IDC, data creation has doubled every two years since 2005.
This project is funded [in part] by the Government of Canada.
Ce projet est financé [en partie] par le gouvernement du Canada.
