About Ian

Mr. Ian Read, Senior Project Engineer, has 28 years of experience as an Electrical/Electronics Engineer and 3 years as a Biomedical Technologist. He specializes in electrical and electronic failure analysis, identifying causes of equipment damage, floods, and fires. Mr. Read has investigated hundreds of equipment and product failures across commercial, utility, residential, industrial, and military industries. He is also experienced in vehicle fire investigations, covering heavy commercial, off-highway, mining, farm equipment, and light-duty...

Mr. Ian Read, Senior Project Engineer, has 28 years of experience as an Electrical/Electronics Engineer and 3 years as a Biomedical Technologist. He specializes in electrical and electronic failure analysis, identifying causes of equipment damage, floods, and fires. Mr. Read has investigated hundreds of equipment and product failures across commercial, utility, residential, industrial, and military industries. He is also experienced in vehicle fire investigations, covering heavy commercial, off-highway, mining, farm equipment, and light-duty vehicles. He has been involved in multiple large loss fire and flood claims across Canada for both plaintiff and defence. His practice primarily serves Western Canada.

Mr. Read’s background includes engineering work focused on reliability, maintainability, availability, and testability, with detailed analyses predicting system performance, reliability, mean time between failures, availability, warranty costs, testability, and supportability. He was court-qualified as an expert in 2021 for Alberta’s King’s Bench.

Mr. Ian Read, Senior Project Engineer, has 28 years of experience as an Electrical/Electronics Engineer and 3 years as a Biomedical Technologist. He specializes in electrical and electronic failure analysis, identifying causes of equipment damage, floods, and fires. Mr. Read has investigated hundreds of equipment and product failures across...

Mr. Ian Read, Senior Project Engineer, has 28 years of experience as an Electrical/Electronics Engineer and 3 years as a Biomedical Technologist. He specializes in electrical and electronic failure analysis, identifying causes of equipment damage, floods, and fires. Mr. Read has investigated hundreds of equipment and product failures across commercial, utility, residential, industrial, and military industries. He is also experienced in vehicle fire investigations, covering heavy commercial, off-highway, mining, farm equipment, and light-duty vehicles. He has been involved in multiple large loss fire and flood claims across Canada for both plaintiff and defence. His practice primarily serves Western Canada.

Mr. Read’s background includes engineering work focused on reliability, maintainability, availability, and testability, with detailed analyses predicting system performance, reliability, mean time between failures, availability, warranty costs, testability, and supportability. He was court-qualified as an expert in 2021 for Alberta’s King’s Bench.

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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