Mike Barker

Current

Partner at BuildingPhysics
Founder Member at Robotics Association of South Africa
PRINCIPLE - Consulting Electrical Engineer at Mike Barker Associates

In Association - Electronics Engineer at Ramble Malone Electrical Engineers

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Past

Consulting Editor at Technews

Education

University of KwaZulu-Natal
Van Zyl & Pritchard
University of KwaZulu-Natal

Alexandra High School

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Industry

Architecture & Planning

Websites

Mike Barker’s Summary

www.MikeBarker.co.za

info@mikebarker.co.za

Principle | Mike Barker Associates | Consulting Electrical Engineer
- Electronics - Building Services
- Electronics Systems for highly serviced buildings
- Life Safety and Building Management Systems
- Security Systems ( CCTV, Access Control )
- Energy Management ( Sustainable Buildings, Green Buildings)
- Audio Visual Technologies ( AV ) for highly serviced buildings
- Building Management Systems ( BMS )
- Building Control Systems

Membership of Professional Societies
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ( IEEE ) No 41609545
- South African Institute of Electrical Engineers ( SAIEE )
Senior Member - No 11328
- International Building Performance Simulation Association ( IBPSA )
- US Green Building Council ( USGBC )
- Green Building Council of South Africa (GBCSA)
- ASHRAE No 8125495
- Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers ( CIBSE )
Special interest group on IT and Control only
- NFPA - National Fire Protection Agency - No 2476401
- The Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society ( ISA )
- ASIS International - Organization for Security Professionals
- Sustainable Energy Society of Southern Africa ( SESSA )
NFRC

Education
- BSc Electrical Engineering ( University of Natal, South Africa )
- VZAP Programming Course ( JHB ) Cobol, IBM Systems
- UNISA - Operations Research subjects
- USGBC - LEED AP
- BRE - BREEAM International Course

Information and Communication Technology ( ICT )

New startups
- www.BuildingPhysics.co.za - Daylighting, Building Commissioning, DesignBuilder, EnergyPlus, Building Simulation, Energy Modeling, Energy Modelling
- BIPV Consulting - Photovoltaics and Solar Water Heating

Mike Barker’s Specialties:

- Building Management Systems, Building Control Systems
- Network Design ( IETF RFC 2544 , Industrial Networks )
- Design Engineer - International Convention Centers in South Africa
- Systems Analyst - Control Systems
- Electrical Engineer
- Electronics Engineer
- Building Simulation
~ Daylighting and Daylight Harvesting ( Daysim, Radiance, Ecotect )
~ Smokeview, NIST FDS

- Web Analytics
- Competitive Intelligence ( SCIP )

Mike Barker’s Experience

Partner

BuildingPhysics

(Privately Held; Architecture & Planning industry)

January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)

Mike is a LEED Accredited Professional ( US Green Building Council )

Modeling and Simulation of Buildings.
Includes Daylighting, Energy consumption, Solar heat gain, Fire.

We use EnergyPlus V3.1, FDS & Smokeview, DesignBuilder, Ecotect, Daysim, Fenestration and NFPC compliant tools
- thermal comfort
- indoor air quality
- building simulation
- high performance buildings
- daylighting, daylight harvesting
- modeling of TDDs / tubular daylight devices / solar tubes / solar pipes
- glare and shade measurements

Support for Building Services Engineering, IAQ,
- Energy Modeling, Building Modelling, Building Envelope

Measurements - photometric, illuminance, luminance, glare, lux levels, solar radiation

Memebers of
- NFRC
- USGBC
- ASHRAE
- IEEE
Founder Member

Robotics Association of South Africa

(Research industry)

January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)

• To galvanise and coordinate the efforts of the various Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) development and research initiatives across Southern Africa.

• Promote awareness of the Robotics and AI research initiatives taking place at the primary and tertiary education institutions in the region.

• Participating in and hosting International Robotics events such as RoboCup or FIRST Lego League championships in South Africa.

• Building a stronger network among the Robotics and AI research and interest group community in Southern Africa and Internationally.
PRINCIPLE - Consulting Electrical Engineer

Mike Barker Associates

(Architecture & Planning industry)

May 1990 — Present (19 years 7 months)

Consulting Electrical Engineer
Electronics Building Services | Building Control Systems | Building Management Systems
Convention Centre Experience :-
 Durban International Convention Centre ( ICCD ) ( All 3 phases - 1994 to 2006 )
 Cape Town International Convention Center ( CTICC ) ( Both phases )
 Polokwane Convention and Exhibition Centre ( Core Team )
 Nelson Mandela Bay Convention Center ( Core Development Team )

Ongoing research into Smart Buildings, Intelligent Buildings
- includes technologies such as oBIX, XML, Energy Conservation, LONworks

-Green building, Smart Building, Intelligent Building, Sustainable Building, SANS 204,
- Member of Green Building Council of South Africa, GBCSA, United States Green Building Council, USGBC
In Association - Electronics Engineer

Ramble Malone Electrical Engineers

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Architecture & Planning industry)

January 1989 — Present (20 years 11 months)

Working in Association since 1999 with :-

Ramble Malone Electrical Engineers c.c.
P O Box 974, Kloof 3640 KZ-N
Suite 3, 6 Inkonka Road,Kloof 3610 KZ-N

Phone : +27 (0)31 764 5713
Fax : +27 (0)86 610 6626

e-mail : info@ramblemalone.co.za
URL : www.ramblemalone.co.za
Consulting Editor

Technews

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Publishing industry)

May 1990 — September 1996 (6 years 5 months)

Consulting Editor of Computing, Networking and Electronics pubications in South Africa

Mike Barker’s Education

University of KwaZulu-Natal

BSc Elec Eng , Electrical Engineering , 1987 — 1988

Activities and Societies:

BSc Electrical Engineering
Van Zyl & Pritchard

VZAP , Computer Programming - Cobol, IBM Systems , 1981 — 1985

We learnt to program in Cobol with out a machine in sight. We wrote code and had our partners "dryrun" it in their heads - egged on by the famous Mr Manie Van Zyl.

This certainly helped get you in the right frame of mind !
University of KwaZulu-Natal

BSc Electrical Engineering 1977 — 1980

Activities and Societies:

77 - 80
Alexandra High School

Matric , 1969 — 1975

Additional Information

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Mike Barker’s Interests:

A philosophy for life and for living :- UBUNTU Archbishop Desmond Tutu (1999): “ A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed ” - Enduro riding, adventure touring - Sailing - Dart & Hobie Cats - Robotics

Mike Barker’s Groups:

- Web Analytics Association ( WAA )
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ( IEEE )
- South African Institute of Electrical Engineers ( SAIEE ) - Senior Member -
- Audio Engineering Society ( AES )
- Acoustic Society of America ( ASA )
- Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers ( CIBSE ) - special interest group on IT and Control only
- NFPA - National FIre Protection Agency
- The Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society ( ISA )
- Hotel Technology Next Generation ( HTNG )
- ASIS International - Organization for Security Professionals