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are often kept in storage; now the printed versions can be taken to remote schools as part of the gallery's out- reach program. Mayer signed a licensing agreement with Verus allowing Arius to set up its laser scanning system in the gallery's conservation labs. The system uses a robotic device developed by Arius that moves the scanner over the surface of the painting, taking about five hours to create a digital file. Once the image is digitized, Arius can correct damage due to oxidiza- tion, creating colours that are closer to those the artist originally chose. "The beautiful thing from a technology perspec- tive is that we can measure the surface of a paint- ing down to 10 microns, which is about one-10th of a human hair," says Paul Lindahl, co-founder and CEO of Arius. "The synergy with Océ is they can print down to the same level of resolution." The National Gallery's reproductions are sold on Verus Art's website for between $650 and $6,650, and at Art Works Gallery in Vancouver. Verus has also struck a licensing deal with the Mau- ritshuis in the Hague, home to a noted trove of 17th- century Dutch paintings. Products of that partnership include copies of Paul Vermeer's Girl With a Pearl Ear- ring and Carel Fabritius's The Goldfinch. —M.G. Home Run Britco slashes energy costs and waste by blending modular and passive housing ou probably know Britco for its tan-and- orange rental trailers, a fixture on con- struction sites. But the Langley-based company has other talents. Britco recently married its expertise in modular building design WORK IN PROGRESS 2001: Teck Corp. buys out the 50 per cent of Cominco Ltd. it doesn't own for $1.5 billion, forming a new mining behemoth based in Vancouver called Teck Cominco Ltd. Today it's Teck Resources Ltd.–the Cominco name, going back to the turn of the 20th century, is gone–and Canada's largest diversified miner lays claim to the best-performing stock on the S&P/TSX Composite Index since 2009. (Yay, coal!) 2004: Stewart Butterfield, with then-wife and busi- ness partner Caterina Fake, launches photo- sharing website Flickr; a year later, Yahoo Inc. buys it for about US$25 million. Butterfield stays on with Yahoo for a few years, dabbles in gaming for a few more, then launches team-messaging app Slack in 2013. Slack's estimated worth today? A paltry US$3.8 billion. 38 BCBUSINESS MAY 2017 BOTTOM CENTRE: PAUL JOSEPH SMART HOUSE Britco built this energy- saving modular/passive townhome develop- ment in Bella Bella 2002: Early in his first mandate, former premier Gordon Campbell creates a Crown corporation committed to new ways of building infrastructure called public-private partnerships, or P3s. Partnerships BC becomes ubiquitous in the run-up to the 2010 Winter Games, re- sponsible for steering many major projects, including the Canada Line and the Sea-to-Sky Highway expansion, that remain the Olympics' true legacy.