Sunday, August 4. 1991 - North Shore News - 321

BUSINESS

NV co. ready

to market
arthquake

safety device

A SEISMIC prete ection Canada certified by Garret
company, ounded in 1988 Engines to conduct THE fan dase
by North Vancouver civil ispecies. In addition, the com,
. : vp . vc J Pany is the sole Canadian factity
eng mn eet c hest CP authorized to Lear Jet standards.
Machniewski, is marketing Norti Vancouver's Skytainer
an earthquake actuated Industries bid. the developer and ee ee peat nee ee nee _
NEWS photo Paul McGrath

automatic gas shut-off manufacturer of a nes type of ur
- cargo and bagvaye container. is A B.C. Ferry heads towards Horseshoe Bay on a summer evening as Bowen Island looms in the

device.
also scheduled to participaze in the background.
upconiing trade show.

Michael
Becker

HIGH TECH

The device is desiened to shut
down gas supply to a building fol-
lowing an earthquake of a
magnitude likely to cause damage
to the gas system in a building.

Last year Westcoast Seismic
Protection Co, helped establish a
new Canadian Gas Association
standard for such devices.

According to company purtner
John O'Sullivan, the impetus to
form Westcoast came from
Machniewski's seismic upgrading
work with MBA Engineering

“YT guess one of the problems he _ ; a : Say et we cee, :
kept on coming across was that : sons . oa a ne
structural engineers and : u a on ote ; eo i ATS
mechanical engineers view build- : . a. oy _ ns a
ings slightly differently, Let me “ . ‘ ; oe ars
give you an example: A structural 7 . Neg : : = : _ Clow a MONDA y
‘ wd ars . _ ve . : . + . ae . y &

engineer will build a building to
move several feet at the top.
However.the mechanical engineers
bolt things nice and tight to build-
ings and of course things snap. In
San Francisco the gas Haes did
snap and thes caused the fires,”
O'Sullivan said.

That night on Oct. 17, 1989,
there were over 500 reported fires
in the Bayo Area. ‘That. really
stretches our fire deparunents."*
he added.

Far more information about the
device call Westcoast Seismic Pro-
tection Co. at 872-3288 or S76-
3134.

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SEVERAL NORTH Shore com-
panies will be participating in Nir-
show Canada ‘91 being lield Aug.
7 ta Wo at Abbotsford tnterna-
tional Airport.

Zum Hitest Technologs bade. a
North Vancous er-based compart.
specializing. in small to medium,

sided precision machined parts and
the Lynn Valley Centre Hours: Mon.-Fri. 9:30 am - 9:00 pm

minor assemblies for

dard prouictian machining, wil 1175 Lynn Valley Rd. Sat. $:30 am * 6:00 pm
a oductic ac g. .
be amore, the exhibiting coin. North Vancouver, BC. Sun. 11-5 pm
panies at the  acrospace trade
show.
Cantech Taspeetions btd.. alse
located in North Vancouver, will
Take partoin the aerospace tiade
show ay well.
Cantesh ts the ark company in