New HVAC design with architects and owners, design-build with one firm responsible, and the testing, balancing and commissioning that prove it works. From office towers and hospitals to data centers, cleanrooms and labs.
Offices in Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver and Toronto.
Air balance, level 3 east (example)
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Most clients come to us in one of these situations, or from one of the industries below.
You’re an architect who needs a mechanical consultant, or an owner planning a project. We design the HVAC from concept to construction documents.
You want a single contract and one point of responsibility for design, installation, balancing and commissioning.
You need the balance report, fire damper verification and stairwell pressurization results your engineer and inspector will ask for at turnover.
Some floors are too hot, others too cold, and the energy bill keeps climbing. We find out why, what it’s costing you and what to fix first.
Mission-critical cooling, cleanroom classification and lab pressurization leave no room for guesswork. We design, verify and document them.
An EnerGuide evaluation rates your home’s energy use and recommends upgrades. Residential air balancing evens out rooms that run too hot or too cold.
Every sector has its own codes, risks and ways of running a building. See all industries.
We design mechanical systems for new buildings, additions and renovations. Hire us as the mechanical engineer on your design team, or let us design and build the whole system under one contract.
We join the architect’s team as mechanical consultant, or work directly for the owner or developer. We compare system options early, coordinate space and shafts, and issue sealed drawings and specifications for permit and tender.
One contract covers design, equipment, installation, balancing and commissioning. You get a firm price on a design you’ve reviewed, a shorter schedule, and no gap between the people who drew the system and the people who built it.
Owner requirements, budget, energy goals and system options.
System sizing, mechanical rooms, shafts and roof space coordinated with the architect.
Room-by-room loads, equipment selection, duct and pipe layout, energy model.
Sealed drawings and specifications for permit and tender.
Shop drawings, site review, balancing, commissioning and occupancy.
A mechanical consultant who coordinates early and keeps to your schedule.
Options and costs before the design is fixed, and systems that are cheap to run.
A design-build mechanical partner with balancing and commissioning in house.
Replacements and upgrades designed around occupied buildings.
Five groups of work, each ending in documents or systems you can hand to an engineer, inspector or owner.
Measure every air terminal and hydronic circuit, adjust them to design values and document the result.
You receiveA balance report listing design and measured flow for every terminal, coil and pump, with the instruments used and their calibration dates.
Confirm that the systems protecting people during a fire or chemical release actually perform.
You receivePass or fail results with test conditions, readings and a list of deficiencies to correct.
Verify that a new building runs the way the owner intended, or bring an existing one back to it.
You receiveFunctional test results and an issues log tracked through to close-out.
Find where energy goes, what it’s worth to fix, and document it for certification and incentive programs.
You receiveUpgrade options ranked by cost and payback, plus the modeling and paperwork certification programs require.
New HVAC design as the architect’s or owner’s mechanical consultant, or design-build with one firm responsible from drawings to start-up. Includes data centers, cleanrooms and labs.
You receiveSealed drawings and specifications, or a complete installed, balanced and commissioned system.
Spaces where a cooling failure, a pressure reversal or a particle count can stop the business. Each comes with its own guide library.
Read the guides: data center cooling, cleanroom HVAC, air valves and lab airflow.
The same five steps whether it’s one rooftop unit or a hospital wing.
We read the drawings, specifications and submittals, and flag problems before we’re on site.
We measure airflow at every terminal and water flow at every coil and pump.
We set dampers, balancing valves, fan speeds and control setpoints.
We re-measure until every reading falls within the specified tolerance.
You get a report your engineer, contractor and inspector can sign off on.
246 practical guides on commercial HVAC, written for owners, facility managers, contractors and engineers. Browse the library.
Psychrometrics, heat gain, sizing and the design basics every commercial project starts from.
16 guidesAir handlers, fans, ductwork, terminals and diffusers: moving the right air to the right place.
20 guidesChilled water, heating water, pumping and piping design for commercial buildings.
18 guidesSelecting, arranging and operating the equipment at the heart of large HVAC systems.
15 guidesUnitary equipment, variable refrigerant flow and split systems for small and mid-size buildings.
11 guidesOutdoor air, filtration, humidity and contaminant control for healthy buildings.
15 guidesSequences of operation, BACnet, sensors and the logic that makes systems perform.
15 guidesProving systems work as designed, from airflow readings to functional tests.
15 guidesHeat pumps, heat recovery, energy codes and the path to low-carbon buildings.
18 guidesAir and liquid cooling, containment, redundancy and efficiency for mission-critical facilities.
30 guidesClassification, airflow, pressurization and validation for controlled environments.
17 guidesVenturi air valves, room pressurization and precise airflow control for labs, hospitals and cleanrooms.
15 guidesWhat changes when the building is a hospital, lab, school, kitchen, arena or warehouse.
18 guidesThe codes, CSA standards and ASHRAE documents that shape Canadian HVAC work.
11 guidesAdd your certifications, licences and three recent projects here. Contractors and engineers check these before they call. (Hide this section by setting show_placeholders to false in config.php.)
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