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Specialists in their field Founded on over 20 years of experience, Faraday Pty Ltd designs, installs and tests Electromagnetic Shielding systems for major medical, commercial, industrial, and defence projects throughout Australia and New Zealand. Perth’s Fiona Stanley Hospital is one facility to benefit from the Melbourne based company’s expertise. For the project, Faraday completed a “suite of EEG, EMG rooms as well as two MRI suites for neurophysiological purposes”, Director Kingsley McRae says. Outside of the Faraday cages the company installed, “small pulse data, from an EEG for example, is much more likely to be corrupt or incorrect,” he said. “A factor that escapes the notice of many clinicians.” Another Melbourne project, Parkville Neuroscience Research Unit, highlights Faraday’s cooperative management style as well as its start to finish design, installation and testing solutions. Significant constraints on normal building work were posed by the installation of the project’s 42 tonne, 7 tesla strength research magnet ¨C one of the strongest in the world ¨C and the addition of a Faraday cage and massive magnetic shield. Faraday invested considerable time “working with everyone from the electrician to air-conditioning guy, to overcome the project’s design restrictions and requirements,” Mr McRae said. With specialist testing, Faraday profiles and delivers solutions for problematic sites. In one case it was the massive magnetic field generated by Melbourne trams, 50 metres from Peter Doherty’s Institute’s sensitive electromagnetic microscope. Faraday designed “a system of active compensation, generating a counter-veiling magnetic field, enabling the microscope to work in an environment it would not otherwise work in,” said Mr McRae. From Faraday Pty Ltd’s beginnings in 2002, the Director determined to have a national focus. “By employing 14 full-time Australian staff we maintain quality control. We are proudly Australian owned and Australia based”, Mr McRae said. With few other Australian specialists in the field, the fact is vital for ensuring the quality services Faraday takes prides in. For more information contact Faraday Pty Ltd, PO Box 555 Bayswater VIC 3153, phone 03 9729 5000, fax 03 9729 9911, website: www.faradayshielding.com.au
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