We help building owners and architects create and certify their green buildings faster—without the headaches. affectingchange is a female-owned Canadian green building consulting firm.
We believe that sustainable buildings create a more resilient and thriving future for our country. Discover why we should be your trusted partner in creating energy-efficient, sustainable, healthy and climate-resilient buildings that meet Passive House performance standards.
Certify Your
Green Building—Faster
We are a tech-enabled green building consulting firm that will help you get your green building certified without the typical headaches. Ask us about our customized platform for green building certifications!
Customized Sustainability Strategies
Don’t just follow a path that gets you a plaque on the wall. We are a green building consulting firm that will help you create a journey to a meaningful destination. Whether you want to stand out in your development application, or want to whether the tides of climate change, let’s forge a future that’s greener, brighter, and more impactful together.
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Who We Help
We work across Canada with building owners and architects as green building consultants on the development of new buildings or on the retrofits of existing ones. We can either work directly with the owner, or under the architect.
The primary focus of our green building consulting work is to reduce the building’s operational costs, and carbon impact. But we also want to make the building healthy, have less ecosystem impact and be climate resilient.
We’re here to help and make the process clearer, faster, and more effective.
“They were able to help us meet Step 3 levels of performance on our new headquarters in downtown Vancouver and help us create a low-carbon building. Their green building design consulting helped us cut costs, make the building more climate resilient and improve building performance while meeting our ambitious sustainability targets. I would recommend affectingchange to any building owner or design team.”
— Michaela Jones, Project Manager, The Salvation Army
What We Do
Affecting Change is an female-owned Canadian green building consulting firm with a commitment to reducing the impact of buildings on our climate. We have a high level of expertise and we provide strategic green building design support, project management tools, and certification expertise to help you design and deliver low-carbon buildings that are:
✔ Energy-efficient
✔ Healthy
✔ Climate-resilient
✔ Aligned with ESG goals
From project feasibility to certification, we work on new construction and building retrofits to help you plan, manage, and document your project’s sustainability journey. We have in-depth knowledge about building systems, including modular construction so we are a great asset to a team working on affordable housing projects and a worthwhile addition to a construction team.
Reducing carbon emissions is important to us. Using building simulation and state-of-the-art project management systems, and other high-tech tools, we work on a variety of building types including apartment buildings, low-rise multi-family buildings, multi-family mid-rise buildings, commercial buildings and institutional buildings, including healthcare.
We stand out from the rest of the other green building consulting firms because we have worked on numerous projects throughout North America, in a variety of different climates and we are tech-enabled, utilizing an online project management system to enhance the integrative design process.
We were pioneers in the green building movement. Our green building consulting work on net zero building design (that achieved the equivalent of the Living Building Challenge) dates back to the early 90’s. We have worked as green building consultants for over 30 years. We have been often hired by Sustainable Buildings Canada as specialized design charrette consultants.
We work with a wide range of sustainable certification programs on a variety of building types including commercial buildings, institutional buildings, and multi-unit residential buildings and we are very familiar with the technical requirements for each program.
Feature Projects
Fogo Island Inn, Fogo Island, Newfoundland
29-room five star eco tourism resort and winner of over 80 awards recognizing its innovative design, social impact and sustainable tourism.
Humber River Hospital, Toronto, Ontario
2nd most energy efficient acute care hospital in the world and first to implement 100% air ventilation in Ontario. Winner of many sustainable design awards including awards from the Engineering News Record, Modern Healthcare Design, the Canada Green Building Council, and ASHRAE.
Salvation Army Harbour Light, Vancouver, British Columbia
which is a complex mixed-use building that is cost-effectively hitting a very ambitious energy target of Step Code 3 while mitigating the effects of wildfire smoke.
We help building owners and architects create and certify their buildings faster—without the headaches
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