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Whether we notice it or not,our everyday lives are ensconced in security systems. At work, we use fobs to open doors. Everywhere we look, we see surveilance cameras hanging on walls.
The impact is being felt not only by integrators in the big cities, where you would expect it, but also by those in smaller communities far from the country’s population centres — such as Port Alberni, B.C,, a dot on the map of Vancouver Island.
Already one of Canada's largest independent security integrators, with 6,000 customers between Vancouver and Montreal, Cobra Integrated Systems recently became even bigger, when it added a five man office in Winnipeg.
For Winter Olympic athletes, the 2010 Vancouver Games were over in a matter of weeks. For Cobra Integrated Systems, the Games were the first major deadline in a security project that’s carried over well into 2011.
In 2000, Scott Knutsen and Brian Sylvester quit their jobs with a national security integrator and bought a small mom-and-pop alarm company located in the Vancouver suburb of Richmond.
THE J.M. MACBETH AWARD OF MERIT is presented in recognition of exceptional service at the chapter level. The recipients of the Award for 2008 are:
A primer on the credit crunch. The 2007 subprime mortgage financial crisis gave rise to an overwhelming fear of a ‘creditcrunch,’ which is a sudden reduction in the availability of loans or credit, or a sudden increase in the cost of obtaining loans from financial institutions.