About Ian

Mr. Ian Read is a Senior Project Engineer with 27 years of experience as an Electrical/Electronics Engineer and three years as a Biomedical Technologist. He specializes in electrical and electronic failure analysis, including determining fire causation. Mr. Read has investigated hundreds of energy-consuming equipment and product failures deployed in many industries, including commercial, utility, residential, industrial and military systems. Mr. Read also specializes in investigating vehicle fires, including heavy commercial, off-highway,...

Mr. Ian Read is a Senior Project Engineer with 27 years of experience as an Electrical/Electronics Engineer and three years as a Biomedical Technologist. He specializes in electrical and electronic failure analysis, including determining fire causation. Mr. Read has investigated hundreds of energy-consuming equipment and product failures deployed in many industries, including commercial, utility, residential, industrial and military systems. Mr. Read also specializes in investigating vehicle fires, including heavy commercial, off-highway, farm equipment, and light-duty cars and trucks. He has also been involved as an investigator in multiple large-loss fires and flood claims in Alberta. Ian’s areas of practice have covered most of Canada.
Mr. Read has past engineering experience in systems reliability, maintainability, availability and testability, wherein he completes detailed reliability analyses to predict system performance factors such as failure probability (reliability), mean time between failures, availability/uptime (or unavailability/downtime), warranty costs, testability, maintenance and supportability calculations.

Mr. Ian Read is a Senior Project Engineer with 27 years of experience as an Electrical/Electronics Engineer and three years as a Biomedical Technologist. He specializes in electrical and electronic failure analysis, including determining fire causation. Mr. Read has investigated hundreds of energy-consuming equipment and product failures deployed...

Mr. Ian Read is a Senior Project Engineer with 27 years of experience as an Electrical/Electronics Engineer and three years as a Biomedical Technologist. He specializes in electrical and electronic failure analysis, including determining fire causation. Mr. Read has investigated hundreds of energy-consuming equipment and product failures deployed in many industries, including commercial, utility, residential, industrial and military systems. Mr. Read also specializes in investigating vehicle fires, including heavy commercial, off-highway, farm equipment, and light-duty cars and trucks. He has also been involved as an investigator in multiple large-loss fires and flood claims in Alberta. Ian’s areas of practice have covered most of Canada.
Mr. Read has past engineering experience in systems reliability, maintainability, availability and testability, wherein he completes detailed reliability analyses to predict system performance factors such as failure probability (reliability), mean time between failures, availability/uptime (or unavailability/downtime), warranty costs, testability, maintenance and supportability calculations.

Areas of Expertise

  • Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA)
  • Digital Forensics
  • Electrical and Equipment Failure Analysis
  • Electrical and Equipment Failure Analysis
  • Electrical Codes and Regulations
  • Electrical Failure Analysis
  • Electrical Failures/​Incidents
  • Electrical Fires
  • Electrical Installation Standards
  • Equipment Consulting
  • Fire Origin and Cause
  • Power and Energy
  • Power Generation/​Electrical Distribution Fires
  • Power Generation/​Transmission/​Distribution/​Utilities
  • Renewable Energy Equipment (Solar/​Wind/​Hydro)
  • Vehicle Fires

Education

  • Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical Engineering
    University of Victoria – Victoria, British Columbia
  • Diploma of Technology (BIOMED), Biomedical Electronics Engineering
    British Columbia Institute of Technology – Burnaby, British Columbia
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Ian Read, CFEI, CVFI, P.Eng.

Senior Project Engineer

Electrical

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