president's Message
There is a lot of mixed messages out there as pertains to how we should be operating our facilities under the COVID Virus. The Building Operators Association will do our best to disseminate the messages and provide links to the ones we believe are true. We will keep those links on our website for you to read. We will focus our Webinar guest speakers on operations that will minimize risks to your customers and tenants. We must be aware of people that try to scare us with tactics that would have us believe their product is the only one that will do the job. There are a lot of unfaithful people out there that will take advantage of the uninformed. We have a group, a subcommittee that you as a member, can ask questions of, and we will try to help you in making your decisions. We have it named. technical@boacalgary.com I hope our committee head, Kyle Agostino or any other member can assist. Please remember we don’t know everything, but all of us together make one hell of a good Operator. The Law still will not let us gather with a table meeting, so we will continue to have webinars in place. We will wait until the new year to see if the government will allow us our trade show. If you have any suggestions of topics you would like to hear of please, drop us a line. Im thinking of UV lighting. I wonder what a virtual trade show would look like; anybody ever heard of one?? Our first attempt at presenting at a Webinar was not very good, but the second attempt on the following Thursday was much better. We are new at it, and we can only get better. I want to thank Dennis from Honeywell and Shawn from Excel for their patience. Our next presentation will be filtration and how people are filtering their air under these trying times, living and working in a safe manner. The presenters will be from BGE indoor air quality solutions. Some people are upgrading their filters, some are not, and some don’t know if they should or not. There are some rumors that increasing the efficiencies will alter the performance of air delivery. Those and other questions can and will be answered at the webinar on October 13 th at 5 PM, mountain time. I hope to see you there, friends. Les Anderson PE, RPA President, BOA Canada.
