MKC ENGINEERING
WHEN YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE!
MKC ENGINEERING
WHEN YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE!
MKC Engineering Corp.’s principal, Kevin Cheong, is an expert in the design and construction of the electrical, technology, life safety, and other disciplines of many types of buildings and structures including large acute care hospitals (St. Paul’s both new and proposed, Children’s and Women’s, VGH, UBC, Lions’ Gate, Royal Columbian (including new and proposed), Royal Inland, Vernon, Richmond, and many others), Skytrain Stations (Brentwood, Lougheed, Gilmore, Broadway/City Hall, Olympic Village and many others on Expo, Millenium, and Evergreen Lines), International and Regional Airports (Nassau Bahamas, Chicago Midway, Edmonton, Calgary, Kamloops, Penticton, etc.), Prisons, Highrise Residential and Office, Recreational Facilities, and many others.
Kevin’s expertise is backed up by membership and participation in numerous code and standard, and other, committees such as for the Canadian Electrical Code; Canadian Elevator Code; Vancouver Building By-Law; Canadian Standards Association Mechanical Industrial Equipment Safety (CSA-MIES), CSA Electrical Vehicle Energy Management Systems (EVEMS) and Vehicle To Grid (V2G) technical sub-committees; American National Fire Protection Association contributor; and BICSI International Standards Committee and Codes Subcommittee. He is past Chair of the B44 National Building Code of Canada (NBCC) Taskforce/Subcommittee, and the Vice-Chair of the City of Vancouver Building Board of Appeal, representing the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of BC. Kevin has presented at numerous regional, national, and international conferences and other events on codes, standards, risk assessment, cost control of IMIT projects, green buildings, and other topics. A recording of a recent panel participation (CHES-BC Virtual Education Forum) can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo–rHVA2BU.
Kevin’s experience includes Electrical and IMIT engineering for the development of the business case for both the ~$1.3B Royal Columbian Hospital Redevelopment, and the ~1.2B St. Paul’s Hospital Station Street Redevelopment, including having served on the SPH Redevelopment IT Steering Committee. Kevin acted as lead Electrical and IMIT compliance engineer for the BC Children’s and Women’s Hospital TECK Acute Care Center, and lead Electrical compliance engineer for the King Edward Memorial Hospital in Hamilton, Bermuda. Kevin also acted as lead electrical design engineer for the ~US$418M Lynden Pyndling International Airport in Nassau, Bahamas, and lead engineer (Air and Landside Civil, Structural, Mechanical, Electrical) for the US$2.52B Chicago Midway Airport Privatization pursuit.
Kevin’s electrical expert witness / legal team support experience includes investigations of numerous electrical equipment failures and electrical shock and fire incidents.
SERVICES:
Legal expert witness work including electrical equipment failures (eg. Ultra-cold freezers, Industrial ovens, Utility transformers, household food dehydrators, hospital emergency power transfer switches), electrical shock and fire incident investigation (industrial power factor correction capacitors, overhead utility distribution line contact).
Small multi-discipline life safety system renovations being scrutinized by regulators (building, fire, electrical, elevator, health and safety) where the issues are not clearly referenced to underlying regulation, or span codes and disciplines such that it would otherwise require a team of specialized, and challenging to coordinate, consultants to deal with.
CONTACT:
Phone: 1-604-652-8000
Email: admin@mkcengr.com
Address: 453-5525 West Boulevard,
Vancouver, BC, V6M 3W6
CONTACT:
Phone: 1-604-652-8000
Email: admin@mkcengr.com
Address:
453-5525 West Boulevard,
Vancouver, BC, V6M 3W6