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Mr. Calder is a licensed Electrical Engineer and has worked for over twenty years in the electrical engineering profession designing power distribution systems including medium voltage substations, switchgear, motor control centers, and feeds to individual building loads.  During his career he has had the opportunity to manage and oversee the installation of numerous industrial electrical projects as well as test and trouble shoot many installation issues.

Mr. Calder’s strong background in design, construction support, inspections and operations has provided him with a keen understanding of electrical systems and causes of potential failures.  Investigations of a wide variety of industrial incidents have provided a solid knowledge of incident investigation procedures.

Mr. Calder was additionally an expert in safe operation of gas fired carbon electrode baking furnaces having been the global chairman of a carbottom baking furnace process safety/improvement team for seven years.  Process changes were developed and implemented that were successful in bringing an end to a history of baking furnace unplanned pressure releases/explosions.

Mr. Calder has investigated a wide variety of electrical systems and investigation categories including audio/visual equipment, code compliance, commercial and residential fires of electrical origin, lighting damage, solar panel failures/fires, fire alarm system failure, and electrical failures of other causes during the past 3 years with EFI Global.

In the past year several projects involving building consulting have been performed to assist clients with evaluation of repair/replacement proposals.  Additionally, wipe and tape sampling has been performed in fire damaged locations to provide data for making recommendations for soot and smoke damaged equipment cleaning.