Customized Sustainability Strategies

Get clarity on the best-fit green building certifications —and a roadmap to get there. We often create a customized solution for clients that suit your project and help ensure that you achieve your sustainability goals and performance targets. Creative solutions are our specialty.

Green Building Certification Support

We have a high level of expertise on green building certification programs at the individual building level, and the portfolio level. We will help you get your building certified in BOMA Best Sustainable, LEED, Green Globes, CaGBC’s Zero Carbon Building Certification, Passive House,  Living Building Challenge and more using our in-house tools and our enabledchange™ Project Management System.

 enabledchange™ Project Management System

Our pre-built templates and tools are designed to help you manage your projects with ease. We are not just a green building consultant or certification consultant, we have built software that is being used by real-world project teams to fast-track their certification process. We have been using this software in-house since 2019 and we use a continuous learning strategy to improve our systems and help you achieve ambitious sustainability targets and streamline the certification process, all the way through into construction. It includes customized task lists, timelines and role-based workflows. It centralizes the documentation, and has built-in milestone tracking for LEED, BOMA Best Sustainable, Green Globes, and more.

Water Audits and Water Conservation

We have hands-on experience doing water audits that reveal the potential for utility cost savings that can have a fast payback. We are advanced water strategists that help you discover effective solutions to reduce your water consumption, and achieve water savings. Whether you are new to water audits or are a veteran, we can help your team by assessing your building and creating a business case for upgrades.

It’s important to have experienced professionals involved in your water fixture upgrades. Technologies change, and even if your building was constructed recently there may be opportunities to make upgrades that have a short payback.

 Net Zero Strategies

We use a collaborative approach to help design teams achieve energy savings by optimizing the operation of buildings, reduce their carbon emissions during the design phase of the project. We use Life Cycle Assessments to reduce the upfront, or embodied carbon emissions, and energy modelling to reduce the energy consumption of your building.

 Interior Design Services

We are Certified professional Interior Designers and we use our technical knowledge to create building interiors with optimized daylighting, smart lighting controls, and implement biophilic design solutions that augment indoor air quality and create a healthier work environment. We are familiar with Living Building Challenge Redlist and healthy building materials.

Climate Risk Readiness

We are sustainability consultants that work beyond the fabric of the built environment, helping you integrate green infrastructure and climate resilience into the sustainable design strategy. No matter if you are building in city centres or remote areas of the far north, we are familiar with the challenges that our future climate presents. We help by making your building ready to handle wildfire, overland flood, heat waves, cold snaps and future pandemics.

ESG Reporting

We incorporate design strategies that work with your stakeholder expectations for your real estate portfolio’s ESG metrics into your sustainable design strategy. This comprehensive approach includes assessment of metrics that will affect your GRESBI rating and financial performance, helping you provide content for stakeholder communications.

 Energy Modeling & Building Simulation

We help your design teams use energy modeling and performance analysis to reduce the operating costs of your building while meeting your project budget. There isn’t just one way to measure success when it comes to energy efficiency. Do you want lower utility bills, lower carbon impact, more capacity for passive survivability? We are used to complex rating systems requirements and will help you report your energy savings for a variety of incentive programs at various government agencies across North America.

 Indoor Environmental Quality Consulting

We will make a positive impact with you by going beyond the requirements of building codes, and providing expert guidance on daylight modeling, and indoor air quality. We have an expert implementation partner that is available to test the air quality in existing buildings, and work with your budget constraints to make recommendations that make a real difference. Occupant satisfaction is key to optimizing your human capital.

 Carbon Footprint Consulting

We will help you create a baseline carbon footprint, and annual carbon footprint, and assess your real estate portfolio. We are carbon modeling experts that use a comprehensive approach. We use a user-friendly reporting process for the calculation of annual carbon emissions, including Scope 3 emissions from your suppliers. We are a trusted partner that specializes in working with Benefit Corporations and third-party accreditation programs, for example, reporting for B Corp on your annual emissions.

Deep Retrofits Consulting

We have hands-on experience helping design teams by reviewing the building condition assessment, helping you gather data, creating a list of possible Energy Conservation Measures (ECM), determining the energy efficiency targets and projected utility cost savings, and we use a collaborative approach to facilitate the Integrative Design Process (IDP). We also help them implement comprehensive solutions that will perform well according to the principles of building science and increase climate resilience.

Passive House Design Consulting

We are sustainable building consultants that guide design teams on achieving Passive House certification by advising them in key areas throughout the design process, and helping meet stringent energy consumption targets, the airtightness levels, and renewable energy targets required for either International Passive House Association certification or PHIUS certification. We are also familiar with EnerPhit deep retrofits. Let us bring your PH-certified project into reality!