president's Message
I hope this message finds you and yours well and in good health
As we enter the 2020/2021 BOA season we are still living with the Covid 19 virus
in our community, still unsure how it affects our communities, The Building Operators association is still not able to hold our monthly meetings as we would normally do. We have delayed the meetings from March through to June hoping the virus problem will have come under control, it has not. The mandate of the association is to educate and to inform the members, through monthly meetings and our published magazine. I believe now in this time of uncertainty even more so, Operators who need useful
Information, helping them to operate their facilities in reasonable and practical ways.
BOA will continue to put out the monthly magazine in an electronic format, will be a mail out paper issue in October) The executives have been meeting monthly in a
virtual capacity and the meetings have been successful using Zoom as the platform. The monthly meetings are also going to take a change while we are under the rules set by Canadian law, our meetings over the rest of the year will be virtual too. This presents to our members a unique opportunity to attend our meetings in a way not previously done.
The Building Operators Association will be holding a virtual meeting using Zoom
as the carrier and anyone can attend the meeting if you have a smartphone or a
computer to view. Mark Arton our Chairman will host the meeting and it is open to anyone who cares to join. The meeting will be about a half an hour in duration; beginning 5PM, Mountain Time, Tuesday September 8, 2020.
The link to dial in is (copy and paste in the browser)
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81040652066?pwd=dlNQdEUyLzd0amRKMkhEQnA1a0xuZz09
Our inaugural guest speakers will be from two companies presenting together :
Honeywell Building Technologies and West Excel automation the topic will be
Healthy Buildings. It is an uncertain time and I hope the presenters will help to shed
some light on safe practices in a multitude of facilities. It will be a PowerPoint
presentation and we will keep a link to it on our website for future reference. Next monthwe will have a presentation using Zoom on filtration by BGE, Indoor Air Quality Solutions, We will as well be delaying our trade show to May 11, 2021. I hope we can honour that date.
Warm regards,
Les Anderson PE, RPA
President, Building Operators Association Canada
