The Project Spotlight for Levven Electronics wouldn’t be complete without due mention to it’s project collaborators and their role in this project.

Collaborators on an GBTN team are sub-consultants or a product/service provider with a strong business connection to the design, construction, and clean technology sector. Collaborators mutually benefit from the business development, learning opportunity and relationships made that continue on to leverage new business after the project is complete.

Levven project Collaborators include: SAIT

How did you get involved in the SSRIA GBTN with Levven?

SAIT: SAIT’s expertise in energy monitoring and environmental analysis was a good fit for Levven’s research on energy and material reduction through the use of their project. SAIT has good relationships with most major and small builders to help pull together a meaningful number of participants. – Tyler Willson

SSRIA connects members on projects with the intent of bringing together the strengths of industry. Check out our members listing to see who you could network with by joining SSRIA, including members like SAIT featured on this months collaborator spotlight.

What does it mean to you be a project collaborator and what value do you add?

SAIT: Being a project collaborator means being a partner. For SAIT, industry partnerships and furthering student learning through practical experience are important. We’ve involved students from both the Mechanical Engineering Technology and Information Technology programs on this project. Giving students hands-on experience with new technology, and helping an Alberta company reduce their carbon footprint and demonstrate the value of their product is certainly valuable to SAIT. — Tyler Willson

What do you think you will gain from your participation in the project?

SAIT: Knowledge of how high-volume residential electrical labour and material usage contributes to emissions; A unique view of the future of residential and commercial electrical; More experienced students; New and valuable partners and connections. -Tyler Willson

What do you hope the greatest project outcome will be?

SAIT: Levven’s product shows a vast decrease in material used when compared to traditionally wired buildings. Homes that have Levven installed have a greater awareness of energy use, and over time use less energy because of this. Levven gets valuable information from this project that drives their future products to be even more environmentally friendly. Levven gains industry partnerships that help them grow, and help Alberta builders reduce their carbon footprint. -Tyler Willson

How will you continue to use the experience and learnings from this project to further reduce GHG emissions in the built environment?

SAIT: Quantifying the embodied carbon of electrical materials used in standard builds gives us further grounds to research GHG reducing technologies. It enables our team to more quickly utilize embodied carbon analysis for both new builds and deep retrofits that require new electrical wiring. -Tyler Willson