Flyer Electric’s new technology division breaks new ground in Saskatchewan

September 23, 2019 in News
Explorer: Fall 2019

For nearly four decades, Flyer Electric has been providing a wide range of industrial and commercial electrical services in Saskatchewan. Recently, the company has expanded to add a Technology Division. “As far as we know, this division is the only one of its kind in Saskatchewan,” says Will Doyle, the Technology Specialist at Flyer, “and there are a limited number of companies that provide both electrical services and offers a full-service technology division. We’re proud to be able to provide a unique offering to our clients that will save them time and money in their projects.”

The new Technology Division will cover the electrical industry technologies of Security, Audio-visual (AV), Information Technology, and controls. Essentially, it’s all the technology a person is interacting with on a regular day-to-day basis in a business, educational, or commercial setting. Examples are computers, security systems, sound systems, audio/video conferencing, and projectors, but there are many more. “In construction jobs, these are all grouped under the electrical scope of work,” says Doyle, “and they are typically subcontracted by electrical companies to third parties – often the manufacturers, and there are often more than one. I’ve worked in this industry for over a decade, and I’ve always thought this could be something that could be integrated into one electrical company. So that’s what we’ve done – and it really takes advantage of the efficiencies in the type of work electricians are already doing.”

A Technology Specialist helps provide technology solutions by consulting, designing, installing, programming, and servicing technology projects, and/or by conducting a variety of management activities for these tasks to provide the best resolutions of client needs on time and on budget.

Flyer hired Doyle in 2017 to begin exploring the possibility of working with technology manufacturers and distributors in becoming authorized to supply their products directory, and working with the Journeyman staff to provide additional training needed to perform the installation themselves. “As we found success and positive feedback from new partnerships, we were encouraged by manufacturers and distributors to pursue the creation of a fully realized technology division,” says Doyle. “In the following year we were awarded a number of tenders, and we began representing over a dozen leading technology manufacturers. We are pleased to be fully launching the division.”

A recent project completed by Flyer was at the University of Saskatchewan. Doyle’s division was engaged to install a public address system and tie it into a mass notification system. “Schools tend to have a lot of electrical systems,” says Doyle, “and our new division means you only need to deal with one contractor instead of many, offering our clients tremendous efficiency and value. In addition to this, because our installation technicians are Journeymen electricians, the level of formal knowledge and training they receive in the installation of electrical technology cabling and devices is far more extensive than our competitors can offer.”

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