Health & Safety Tip of the Month: Eye Strain Prevention

Whether we’re reading email, reviewing drawings or preparing documents, our daily tasks are increasingly digital. These tasks can result in spending hours per day looking at monitors, which can lead to eye strain. Be alert to the symptoms of eye strain – blurry vision, dry eyes, and headaches.

Give your eyes a regular break! For better vision health, remember the 20-20-20 rule: every 20 minutes, spend 20 seconds looking at something at least 20 feet away. Focusing on an item in the distance allows our eye muscles to relax after being subjected to prolonged screen time.

Other helpful tips include remembering to blink often, increasing text size, and reducing glare on your screen from external sources. Take a moment to read more here (yes, we appreciate that it’s more screen time!) and remember: keep blinking!

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We’re pleased to welcome Michael Murphy as Account Executive for HH Angus’ new service offering, ARMS – Angus Remote Management System.

Mike brings a wealth of experience and a proven track record of driving revenue growth and implementing tailored ‘Software as a Service’ (SaaS) solutions. He also has a strong understanding of commercial and institutional real estate through a decade of industry experience and a seven-year tenure at Introba where he served as an Associate and Director of Client Experience.

ARMS is a bespoke SaaS-based technology solution that provides intelligent, simplified, digital solutions for optimizing the performance of real estate assets and improving ROI from building portfolios. A cloud-based platform, ARMS streamlines many of the processes around building performance, metrics, proptech data, building access, HVAC inventory management and asset management. Customizing IoT solutions for facility operations, ARMS provides single pane of glass access to data sets such as room occupancy, space utilization, BAS data, security, health of spaces for occupant comfort - temperature, humidity, indoor air quality, and more.

"I am thrilled to join the HH Angus team and to lead the charge in driving sales and growth for the ARMS software. I’m passionate about delivering unparalleled value to clients through innovative SaaS offerings and look forward to collaborating with our talented Digital Services team to elevate ARMS into a unique service offering in the market."

HH Angus’ Digital Services team is vendor-agnostic and works with any data from any source through a consolidated database to provide meaningful, real-time insights to facilities and property management teams.

To learn more about how ARMS software solutions can help optimize your real estate portfolio, click here or contact arms@hhangus.com.  

We’re pleased to announce that Kelly Henderson has been promoted to the role of Associate Director of the Angus Connect Division. In this expanded role, she will focus on the strategy and execution of consulting engagements within the Connect Division.

Kelly brings to the role deep experience in client management, software, operational readiness and consulting. Those attributes are supported by a unique toolkit of skills that are essential to driving a constantly changing and dynamic service offering in the world of emerging technologies.

Megan Angus, VP Strategy and Digital Services | Division Director of Angus Connect, has worked closely with Kelly since she joined HH Angus: “Kelly is a natural facilitator and a strong communicator. These are critical skills in her new role. She has a deserved reputation in the industry as a leader and a problem solver, someone who delivers excellence, fosters an engaging and interesting work environment, and promotes teamwork to deliver top results. I’m excited to see where her new responsibilities will lead and how she will help us grow.”

Kelly has also demonstrated a high degree of dedication to the firm’s success, through identifying partnership opportunities, creating and maintaining strong client relationships, and collaborating with and mentoring team members, as well as more broadly across the firm. She has also been instrumental in working with the firm’s other divisions on opportunities for a broader service offering to better support our clients’ project needs and strategic vision.

Highlights of Kelly’s portfolio include managing some of the Angus Connect division’s largest projects, such as the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, The Ottawa Hospital and Niagara Health.

Episode 8 Energy Master Planning

In a world where energy consumption is a major concern, Justin Lau and Sabari Manoharan, mechanical engineers from HH Angus’ Energy Division, discuss the importance of energy master planning for multi-building and campus infrastructure. They highlight how an energy master plan can help achieve goals like reducing carbon emissions, lowering utility costs, and improving reliability and resiliency. Justin and Sabari explain that energy master planning provides the opportunity to consider current and future expected building uses and loads, up-front capital availability, and timelines to establish appropriate phasing of projects, level of planning and detail design, along with meaningful cost estimates and analysis. They also share some interesting examples of how they had helped clients achieve their energy goals.

Episode 8 "Energy Master Planning" – H.H. Angus and Associates Ltd. (hhangus.com)

We’re pleased to announce that Diane Lee has joined our Technology Division as a Project Director. Diane is overseeing highly complex projects for the Technology team and serving as a technical resource on Strategy & Digital Services with the Angus Connect Division. She is currently focused on a major commissioning project at Royal Columbian Hospital in British Columbia as the Commissioning Authority Compliance Consultant, as well as carrying a significant project delivery role for our data centre work in the United States, in particular for a large, 100-megawatt data centre in Atlanta.

Diane joins us with a diverse background based on 15+ years of construction and commissioning experience. Drawing on her work as a consultant, as an independent commissioning firm owner, and Director of Technical Services and Building Performance at one of Canada’s largest construction companies, Diane’s skillset contributes to project management, technical and business administration functions at HH Angus. Highlights from her project portfolio include Penticton Regional Hospital’s new David Kampe Tower in BC, Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops BC, New Toronto Courthouse in ON, Brampton Civic Hospital in ON, Quadreal’s Jamieson Place & Livingston Place in Calgary, Oxford Properties Group’s Centennial Place East and West Towers & Eau Claire Tower in Calgary, multiple commissioning projects at Mount Royal University in Calgary and Alberta Infrastructure’s Edmonton Medical Examiners Building.

Craig Sievenpiper, Director - Technology Division, notes that “Diane brings a rare combination of commissioning, project management and project delivery experience, having worked on both the contractor and client delivery aspects of projects. This unique blend of skills can only be acquired over time and through many successful projects.  We look forward to Diane contributing her expertise to our project management, commissioning, and best practices.”

Diane is also an active participant and speaker in industry events. She recently moderated a panel on “Leveraging Technology to Enhance Your Building’s Performance” at BUILDEX Alberta, discussing the challenges many building owners and property managers face in determining what technology is useful, necessary, and creates the most value. Diane was also recently a featured guest on a podcast from CIQS (Canadian Institute of Quantity Surveyors), in which she discusses smart building technologies.

Diane notes, “It’s incredibly rewarding to be part of a collaborative team, to develop and lead a roadmap of solutions in supporting our clients and project team. It is equally rewarding to know our accomplishments on behalf of our clients carry significant impact and value.”

For more information about how HH Angus can add value to your next technology project, please contact:

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Craig Sievenpiper
Craig.sievenpiper@hhangus.com