Facility Compliance Assessment & Management
Managing, Selling or Buying Commercial or Industrial Real Estate:
- Are the current electrical conditions compliant according to the current electrical codes and safety act?
- Will you meet current or future system and power needs?
- Compliance and power audits can save you $10,000 to $100,000 in dealing with a non-compliant legacy or inadequate system infrastructure or power.
Energy Management
Managing and controlling how and when you use electricity will benefit your facility in many ways.
Primarily, economy through reduction of direct consumption, demand surcharges and power factor surcharges. Equipment and service upgrades from increased capacity consumption can be reduced through programs with BC Hydro, which will target lighting and heating retrofits.
Demand surcharge can be controlled through load shifting and staggering. With the electrification of mobility increasing continuously, it is more critical to gain capacity out of existing electrical infrastructure to accommodate this growth, and stay ahead of utility demanded load shedding.
Power Systems & Distribution (24V-25,000V)
CSA Z463 Maintenance of Electrical Systems Standard is to facilitate the safe, reliable and cost-effective operation of electrical equipment and systems through the application of consistent maintenance practices. The requirements of this Standard are intended to address worker and public safety as a primary objective and the protection of property and the environment as secondary objectives.
Highlights from CSA Z463 Standard:
- A documented Electrical Maintenance Program (EMP) shall be established, implemented and maintained and shall address worker and public safety, prevention of losses and property damage, electrical system performance and reliability, reduction of risk and compliance with applicable Federal, Provincial and Territorial regulations.
- The EMP shall include electrical equipment asset management requirements.
- The EMP shall include a risk management process.
- The electrical manufacturer’s recommendations for electric equipment maintenance shall be considered and followed.
- Preventative and protective risk control methods applied to mitigate or reduce risk shall be selected and implemented.
- The EMP shall include safety objectives and shall be integrated into the occupational health and safety management system
- Electrical maintenance activities shall be performed on electrical equipment and systems to retain them in, or restore them to, a state in which they were designed to function safely.
- The electrical maintenance plan for the safety of electrical equipment and systems shall include frequency of inspections and the electrical maintenance activities and tasks critical for worker safety.
- The organization shall establish a risk process to identify electrical equipment and system failures with the potential to cause harm.
- Electrical hazard idenification and risk assessment shall be completed for the qualified persons that will complete energized electrical equipemnt maintenance.
- Equipment age can be factored in establishing the appropriate maintenance frequencies, inspections and task to be performed.
Periodic maintenance and inspections.
Infrared services.
Functionality and operational studies and services.
Feasibility studies increasing existing capacity.
Lighting Systems & Controls
Artificial lighting is one of the biggest consumers globally of energy. Much of the lighting is poorly designed and implemented so that much of it is not productive and actually has negative consequences.
Light pollution, or artificial light at night, is the excessive or poor use of artificial outdoor light. It disrupts the natural patterns of wildlife and plants, contributes to the increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, disrupts humans’ sleep, and obscures the stars in the night sky.
Light pollution arises from careless and often misguided exterior night lighting practices. Light pollution wastes energy, causes hazardous glare, increases the production of greenhouses gases, and compromises public safety. An unfortunate side effect of growth and development is increased levels of light pollution – light that doesn’t serve its intended purpose of providing safety and convenience. Instead it spills outward and upward from poorly designed or inefficient light fixtures, trespassing on surrounding properties and polluting the skies. Over one billion dollars a year is wasted in North America alone because of ineffective or inefficient lighting.
EV Car Charging Systems
EV ready studies.
Clean BC
Level 1, 2 and 3 charging systems
OHS Protocols & Education
Staff and site personnel are often in close proximity to electrical during their normal scope of work. These individuals are routinely asked to perform tasks which are beyond their qualifications. Regulated electrical work must be performed by a qualified individual as per the Safety Standards Act and WorkSafe BC. There are many underlying consequences and hazards which are not evident to the unqualified worker.
For example, regulated work to be performed by a qualified individual include:
- Turning breakers on or off
- Turning disconnects on or off
- Changing light bulbs or lamps
- Changing ballasts
System Fault & Failure Forensics
Audio & Video Systems
Distributed audio and video systems.
Equipment integration and upgrades.
Control 4 systems and programming.
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