They are rooms that host some of the world’s greatest minds, launching humanity higher than ever.
As NASA works towards its return via the Moon Artemis MissionA Calgary company has a role to play from the ground up.
evans console Johnson Space Center is responsible for the design of all three Mission control Rooms, including other places where they do training, simulation and engineering.
Comfort, site line and communication are all designed for the intensity of the unexpected.
“Often in control rooms, acoustics and lighting are an issue when operators are present for 12 to 24 hours in an emergency,” said Scott Matthews, regional sales manager for the Gulf Coast.
Evans Consoles won NASA’s Space Flight Supplier Award in 2006.
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And while NASA is one of the company’s highest-profile contracts, Evans has customers around the world, including Canada’s military.
“A lot of public safety, 911 centers or call centers. We’ll also be in pipelines, chemical plants, refinery control rooms, air traffic control towers, (and) network operation centers,” Matthews said of his work.
Over the past four decades, Evans Consoles has designed and built approximately 14,000 control rooms worldwide, employing approximately 400 people from its Calgary home.
“At one point in the 1980s the screens you would see on consoles were old-style CRT screens, massive computers,” Matthews recalled.
And while the technology driving workplaces has evolved, it’s the people behind the technology that the company continues to cater to.
“The guys are stable,” Matthews said. “We must have people who can think on their toes, make quick decisions – there is no time for indecision. So it is the people and the passion for the work that is left.”
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