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.BCEA NEWS
Sales are closing soon!
BCEA
Don't miss your chance to promote your company in the BCEA 2023 Membership Directory. This annual resource will have a new design and format, and for the first time be available in both print and a fully interactive digital edition. Advertising opportunities are still available including display advertising, as well as NEW digital edition and direct mail options. For more information, please contact Angela McDougall, Project Manager at Naylor Association Solutions amcdougall@naylor.com or visit the online media guide.
Time is running out, reserve your space now.
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Highlight Your Team for IWD!
BCEA
As the Women's Network works towards their campaign for International Women's Day (March 8), they would like to highlight all those amazing employees within our membership.
Email barbette@bcea.bc.ca stories and images of those amazing ladies! We want to highlight the hard-working, inspiring ladies out there.
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Genesis is a high performance commercial recessed downlight, combining 90 CRI standard high power LEDs, dimmable driver and high reflectivity spun aluminum reflector. Key features are best in class optical control, easy to access field changeable optics, wet location rated IP66 construction and screw operated vertical adjustment.
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Together We Can — Energy 2 Action
It’s back! Join us starting February 1, 2023 for our Health and Wellness Challenge!
Last year our members walked across Canada together by tracking their steps in February. We want to encourage BC members and their families around the province to get moving and stay healthy physically and mentally.
It's easy to participate...you can walk, run, hike, hit the gym, or take a yoga class and it all counts!
First: Register here so we know who we are tracking.
Second: Follow our Facebook page so you can stay motivated and share your progress with out members!
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EB Horsman & Son Opens a New Location
EB Horsman & Son
E.B. Horsman & Son (EBH), the largest & fastest-growing electrical supplier in Western Canada, has opened an additional corporate office located at #215-9440 202nd Street in British Columbia. The opening of the new centrally located 7,000+-square-foot office space is in response to the company’s increased growth in customers, employees, and partners, as well as the increased demand for E.B. Horsman & Son’s services. To ensure the company can continue to provide the highest level of customer service, the new Corporate Divisional Office will become the future home of their Lighting, Albrite, Data Communications, Process, Automation & Controls (PAC) Group, Major Projects, eCommerce, and Marketing teams.
Read the full release here.
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New BCEA Benefit Plan
BCEA
Recruit, Retain and Reward Workers!
Great news! BCEA has launched its own group benefit plans to give our members competitive rates and top-notch service in offering group health, dental, retirement and other benefits. It’s great for your workers, their families, and your bottom line.
Powered by ICBA Benefits, a company specializing in offering benefits to the construction sector, the BCEA Benefit Plan has the perfect options to meet your company’s needs. But joining our plan also helps BCEA in our work to building community through education and advocacy. It’s a way to support BCEA beyond regular membership.
Our industry is vital to building British Columbia, and BCEA and ICBA Benefits are perfectly
aligned in our joint commitment to grow and support the electrical industry, make sure your company is successful, and help you provide your team with outstanding benefit packages and service.
Need a plan? BCEA Benefits can help you find a cost-effective option. Already have a plan? We can review the performance of your current benefit plan to find opportunities for improvement and cost savings.
Interested? Email us at barbette@bcea.bc.ca to learn about next steps.
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Mark Your Calendars
BCEA
• April 20, 2023 – Women’s Network THRIVE Summit!
• May 23, 2023 – Victoria Golf Tournament, Olympic View Golf Course
• June 7, 2023 – Kelowna Golf Tournament, Sunset Ranch
• July 18, 2023 – BCEA Annual Golf Tournament, Morgan Creek Golf Course
• December 1, 2023 – BCEA Annual Holiday and Awards Luncheon, Delta Burnaby Hotel
• February 23, 2024 – BCEA 100 Year Anniversary – Roaring 20s Gala, Delta Burnaby Hotel
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Stanpro is one of the largest Canadian lighting companies and continuously aspire to offer innovative lighting solutions to the North American market. We are a 100% Canadian privately owned and managed company. We also employ over 350 persons with sales, design, engineering, manufacturing, and distribution capabilities across the country. Our core strengths lie in construction projects, retrofit and national accounts.
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For bridge projects, Champion Fiberglass offers:
- Lower material and installation costs
- Easy joining systems facilitate an efficient installation
- Lightweight, corrosion-resistant electrical conduit installed successfully across thousands of bridges in the U.S. and Canada
Download our eGuide to learn how our conduit facilitated a seamless installation for a complex bridge project.
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BCEA Event Site
BCEA
Are you trying to find out details and what new events we are hosting?
BCEA Event site has all the information and registration details. Click here to check it out!
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.IN THE MEDIA
Remote First Nations communities advance clean-energy projects
BC Gov News
Twelve First Nations communities throughout British Columbia will receive $7.1 million to develop alternative-energy projects and advance energy efficiency through the Province's Community Energy Diesel Reduction (CEDR) program, a CleanBC initiative.
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BC Building Trades: Chronic pain compensation in sore need of an update
Journal of Commerce
Workers' compensation for chronic pain in British Columbia is in need of an update is it falls further and further behind modern science, says BC Building Trades Workers' Advocate Merrill O'Donnell.
WorkSafeBC's "approach to chronic pain is inconsistent with the scientific evidence that has been adopted at the highest levels of the medical community globally, nationally and domestically," O'Donnell told the Journal of Commerce.
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B.C. adopts new housing permit strategy to get more homes built quickly
CTV News
British Columbia is adopting a "one-stop-shop" approach to housing-related permits to help speed up the approval process to build more homes, officials announced recently. The new Permitting Strategy for Housing means B.C. will have a cross-ministry team dedicated to prioritizing housing permits, which are currently handled by multiple ministries with different processes.
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BC Hydro advises to stay clear of Puntledge River
Comox Valley Record
With the ongoing wet weather, BC Hydro is extending its public safety advisory to stay away from the Puntledge River with the higher flow conditions through Jan. 23. Temporary safety signage that’s been placed along the river to advise of the dangerous river flows has been updated with the date extension.
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The green jobs boom is coming to every corner of Canada
Corporate Knights
Climate action in Canada will create millions of new jobs and attract hundreds of billions of dollars in investment in the decades to come — much to the benefit of Canadian communities.
From improving the energy efficiency of homes in Victoria, British Columbia, to producing hydrogen in Stephenville, Newfoundland, careers will be built across the country. But which clean economy opportunities will create green jobs in which regions?
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