Projects

Scale: 175,000 sm Class A office

Impact: LEED Platinum, WELL Silver, Toronto Green Standard Tier 2, low-carbon energy supply concept and complex-wide energy/carbon optimization, thermal comfort analysis of Glass Pavilion, daylight analysis

Client: QuadReal

Team: HPA, USI, Adamson

Scale: 22,500 sm creative office

Impact: LEED Gold and WELL Certifications, mass-timber design, 40% savings in life-cycle carbon emissions

Client: Hines

Team: 3xn, WZMH

Scale: 175,000 sm Class A office

Impact: Largest-to-date CaGBC Zero Carbon Certification and the first under Version 2 of the Standard

Client: Kingsett Capital

Scale: 24,000 sm mid-rise office

Impact: LEED v4.1 O&M Gold re-certification strategy and implementation

Client: First Capital

Scale: 120,000 sm office campus

Impact: LEED v4.1 O&M Platinum Re-certification, low-carbon transition strategy, energy audit and Building Automation System review, 4-month fast-track certification process

Client: Canderel

Scale: 9,600 sm 5-floor office fit-up

Impact: LEED Gold, Energy Modelling

Client: Google

Team: iN STUDIO

Scale: 3-tower office complex

Impact: Developed cost-effective zero-carbon transition plan including an innovative hybrid heating system to take advantage of time-of-use electricity pricing

Client: Confidential

Scale: 50,000 sm office podium + residential tower

Impact: Toronto Green Standard, Energy Modelling, LEED Gold, feasibility of Energy Star, WELL and Zero Carbon, Life-cycle Analysis, daylight analysis

Client: St. Thomas Developments

Team: HPA

Scale: 18,000 sm, 500 bed

Impact: LEED Silver, Toronto Green Standard, energy modelling, 40% savings vs. OBC, geothermal heat pump integration, measurement & verification, parametric analysis, enhanced thermal bridging analysis

Client: Daniels / UofT

Team: DSAI

Scale: 37,000 sm condo + rental

Impact: Toronto Green Standard, energy modelling, enhanced thermal bridging, envelope optimization, ventilation/pressurization/HVAC strategies

Client: Daniels

Team: su erkul, Kirkor

Scale: 25,500 sm purpose-built rental development

Impact: Energy Modelling, Energy Star Multifamily Certification, including parametric energy modelling to study the impacts of envelope thermal bridging, corridor pressurization, air-tightness, and low-carbon heating supply technologies.

Client: QuadReal

Team: DSAI

Scale: 24,000 sm purpose-built rental development

Impact: Toronto Green Standard Tier 2, Energy Modelling, Energy Star Multifamily Certification

Client: QuadReal

Team: HPA

Scale: 23,000 sm purpose-built rental project in Mississauga

Impact: Energy Modelling, LEED Certification Management, envelope performance optimization

Client: Daniels

Team: Kirkor

Scale: Portfolio of 22 residential and commercial buildings

Impact: individual energy audits culminating in 30% portfolio-wide energy and carbon savings opportunities eligible for utility incentives, fast-tracked process to deliver all reports in 6 months

Client: Colonia Treuhand

Scale: Multi-tower, 77,000 sm residential development

Impact: Schematic Design Support, Energy Modelling, Toronto Green Standard, feasibility study of advanced certification programs

Client: Bentall GreenOak

Team: Quadrangle

Scale: 125,000 sm Historic Hotel

Impact: Comprehensive energy audit that identified 30% energy and 80% carbon savings including low-carbon strategies

Client: Kingsett Capital

Scale: 1.8M sm, 9 ac to 3.6 ha mixed-use development of existing 9-acre site

Impact: Energy Modelling, Toronto Green Standard and LEED Management services

Client: Confidential

Scale: 210 ha, 140,000 residents and employees, 20-year build-out

Impact: sustainability and resilience strategy development, decision-making framework, guiding principles, metrics and targets, stakeholder engagement

Client: Northcrest Development and Canada Lands Company

Team: Henning Larsen, Urban Strategies, KPMB, Ramboll, Others

Scale: 54,000 sm healthcare facility on existing campus

Impact: Benchmarking and target-setting, review of existing geothermal system performance, green building certification feasibility, energy and carbon strategy development, health & wellness initiatives

Client: William Osler

Team: Zeidler, Quasar

Scale: Master Plan for 40 ha college campus

Impact: Sustainability support incl. background analysis, review of precedents, development of guiding principles and strategies for a low-carbon transition

Client: Sheridan College

Team: Urban Strategies

Scale: 4 ha mixed-use community

Impact: Evaluation of district energy opportunities and development of decision-making framework that aligns with current development process

Client: Choice Properties

Scale: Redevelopment of the 37,000 sm Campbell Soup factory to a logistics facility.

Impact: Our work includes helping to set energy and carbon targets, energy analysis to determine design that meets targets, identifying technology solutions and delivering a sustainability workshop

Client: QuadReal

Scale: 3,300 sm office. vehicle repair and storage facility

Impact: We developed a Zero Carbon Concept Design, helped illustrate different ways of defining/achieving “Net Zero”, providing PV array sizing and used energy modelling to assess the impact of individual measures

Client: Zorra Township

Team: Chamberlain Architects

Scale: 70 ha site

Impact: We led a team of business and technical experts to investigate ways to create a leading example of low-carbon development, including helping assess capital and operating costs of renewable energy technologies

Client: Oxford Properties

Team: Great Circle Solar

Scale: Region-owned real estate assets

Impact: Supported the development of a new FDCAM “Durham Standard”, evaluated current standards & procedures used to deliver Durham’s capital projects, benchmarked industry standards, provided policy recommendations

Client: Durham Region

Scale: All City-owned real estate assets, incl. 500+ high-priority buildings

Impact: Creation of portfolio-wide Net Zero Carbon Plan to align with TransformTO targets incl. stakeholder engagement, benchmarking of existing strategies to identify gaps and best practices and assessment of financial impacts of the City’s Climate Emergency Declaration

Client: City of Toronto

Scale: All new development projects across various asset classes

Impact: Aligning sustainability outcomes with business drivers, decision-making process for ensuring the right questions are asked at the right time.

Client: QuadReal

Scale: Portfolio

Impact: Supporting ongoing Digital Energy Management System with fault detection and analytics, site visits and operator support.

Client: Oxford Properties

Scale: Regional Workshops

Impact: Capacity-building, engagement, knowledge dissemination of deep carbon retrofit case studies and strategies

Client: Canada Green Building Council

Scale: National / Industry-wide

Impact: summarized key industry and building trends and provided robust analysis of 549 certified buildings

Client: BOMA Canada

Scale: Residential and Commercial Buildings participating in Enbridge Savings By Design Program

Impact: delivered energy modelling and HVAC subject-matter expertise to various design teams participating in the incentive program

Client: Enbridge + Sustainable Buildings Canada

Scale: Regional

Impact: Estimates of environmental and economic benefits of a program of energy efficiency retrofits, fuel switching, and adoption of renewable energy in the NWT

Client: Northern Centre for Sustainability

Team: Ecology North, PolicyLink

Scale: National

Impact: a simple-to-use calculator to evaluate the financial viability of deep carbon reductions and support the CaGBC Zero Carbon Building Standard

Client: Canada Green Building Council