Services
We’re committed to providing multidiscipline engineering services that help solve our clients’ greatest challenges. Our teammates collaborate to ensure we provide our communities with safe and inclusive infrastructure.
We provide consulting engineering services for both new construction and existing buildings in three sectors: property; social infrastructure; and energy, resources and industry.
We offer engineering consultation and design in six areas of expertise. Select an icon below to learn more.
Building
Science
Electrical Engineering
Structural Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Project Management
Sustainability Consulting
Building Science
Ensuring that the exterior components of any building are not compromised and are working properly with interior sub-systems is critical for any structure.
Our approach includes treating the buildings we work on as if it’s our own.
We provide owners, developers, designers, and builders with consulting engineering services relating to the design, construction, and performance of the building envelope of the infrastructure we work on.
As the building envelope controls the movement of heat, air, moisture, light and sound, the design and construction of a building must consider how all the building components work together to provide a stable and long-term controlled environment.
Our team delivers solutions to building owners that ensure their investment performs at optimal levels while providing occupants with spaces that meet their needs and desired experience.
Our building science services include the following:
- Building envelope design reviews and consultation
- Detailed building envelope construction site reviews
- Building envelope commissioning testing
- Building envelope condition assessments
- Detailed building envelope failure investigations and testing
- Building envelope restorations
- Restoration specifications, drawings, site review, and tendering services
- Building envelope failure investigations
- Expert witness testimony
- Independent third-party reviews
- Air leakage testing
- Water penetration testing
- Infrared thermography
- Borescope investigations
- Traffic deck coating testing
- Roofing cut testing
Contact us for a full range of our building science services.
Electrical Engineering
Various types of building equipment, devices and systems require electricity to operate and function, and we recognize our clients work in a wide variety of sectors that demand unique solutions.
Our electrical consultants achieve value for our clients by combining innovation, technical excellence, and sustainable design. We continually develop our skills, challenge our ideas, and expand our resources to ensure successful client project outcomes. Our team includes professionals with specialties and accreditations in lighting design, solar design, WELL, LEED and power systems.
We have an experienced and versatile electrical engineering team committed to getting our clients the best value at all stages of a project. We design electrical systems that aim to achieve maximum function, flexibility, sustainability, and reliability.
Ensuring proper electrical solutions are in place plays an essential part in ensuring that buildings operate properly while providing safe and sustainable spaces for stakeholders at every level.
Our electrical engineering services include the design of the following:
- Back-up supply and cogeneration
- Building condition assessments
- Building evaluations
- CATV and sound systems
- Code analysis
- Data and communications systems
- Distribution systems
- Door access systems
- Electrical evaluations
- Emergency power generation
- Energy audits
- Fire alarm system design, verification, and security
- Grounding and bonding systems
- Life safety systems
- Lighting and power systems
- Nurse call systems
- PA systems
- Power coordination studies
- Security systems
- Site services
- Solar PV system design
- Structured cabling services
- Net-Zero building design
Contact us for a full range of our electrical engineering services.
Structural Engineering
The backbone of any building is made up of its structural components.
Our team is committed to providing cost-effective structural design solutions for our clients to meet their current and potential future needs.
Our approach to each project is to focus on our client’s goals while creating a design that responds to the owners’ and end users’ desired outcomes.
Our team’s technical expertise, diverse experience and practical design approach enable our team to provide overall direction on projects from a structural perspective while working collaboratively with a multi-disciplinary team to provide leadership and input at all stages of a project. We excel at providing engineering solutions and expertise to projects of various sizes and complexities and under varying climatic conditions and project locations.
Our experience using different technologies coupled with a functional design strategy provide our clients with more than just a technical solution; they provide the community with critical and safe infrastructure.
Our structural engineering services include the design of the following:
- Concrete foundations for Pre-Engineered Buildings
- Building Condition Assessments
- Concrete foundations – foundation walls, strip footings, grade beams and pad footings
- Concrete Structures – beams, columns and walls loading bearing and shear walls
- Concrete tank bases
- Earth Retaining Structures
- Engineer of Record for Pre- Engineered Buildings
- Expert Witness Service
- Heavy timber- posts, beams, purlins, decking and trusses
- Miscellaneous Structural design, such as Open Web Steel Joist reinforcing
- Owners Representative Services
- Pallet racking and racking supported structures
- Renovations and Additions to existing facilities
- Restoration of concrete and wood structures
- Revit and CAD drawings
- Seismic Restraints for Equipment
- Steel skids for equipment bases
- Steel Stud Shop drawings
- Structural Assessments
- Structural Structures – beams, columns, structural girts, Trusses, lateral systems, and floor/roof diaphragms
- Wood Structures – beams/headers, columns/posts, load bearing walls, shear walls and floor/roof diaphragms
Contact us for a full range of our structural engineering services.
Mechanical Engineering
Buildings are made up of a complex network of systems and equipment. The mechanical components of a building may not be seen; however, they play a significant role in the comfort and safety of occupants.
Our mechanical engineers are committed to designing sustainable and reliable systems that maximize operating savings, increase safety, and minimize environmental impacts. We work with building users, operators, and owners to design easily controllable and maintainable mechanical systems.
Our team leans on its experience and knowledge to deliver solutions that enhance occupant experience while meeting the needs of building owners, the community, and the environment.
Our mechanical engineering services include the design of the following:
- Building systems commissioning and verification
- Campus-scale heat recovery systems
- Direct digital control systems
- District energy systems
- Electronic and pneumatic controls
- Energy audits, energy modelling and simulations
- Forensic audits and peer reviews
- Fuel facility design
- Greenhouse gas project validation and verification
- Ground source heat pumps
- HVAC system design
- Industrial design
- Innovative air, heat recovery and free-cooling strategies
- LEED® consulting
- Maximize energy incentive program benefits
- Medical gas, compressed air and other specialities
- On-site solar thermal generation
- Plant energy optimization
- Plumbing systems
- Process and instrumentation designs
- Refrigeration systems
- Site services (site plans, connections, grading, etc.)
- Specialized ventilation design (clean rooms, biocontainment hoods, operating theatres, etc.)
- Sprinkler and fire protection systems
- Steam generation and distribution systems
- Stormwater drainage and rainwater harvesting
- Water and wastewater treatment design
Contact us for a full range of our mechanical engineering services.
Project Management
We believe in building strong relationships and creating exceptional experiences for our clients, one where we listen and deliver comprehensive advice and solutions.
What makes us a leader in the consulting engineering industry is our multi-disciplinary approach to client service. Every project has a dedicated engineer and project manager who work seamlessly together, listening to and communicating with the client, drawing in other engineering and design professionals while efficiently moving the project forward. Our collective team is made up of sustainability-conscious designers and project teams to help our clients source sustainable solutions.
Our project management team members help our clients undertake complex projects. We work with our clients to identify project requirements, establish clear and achievable objectives and develop and deliver a comprehensible strategy that will enable project success. By assuming day-to-day project responsibilities, our project managers continually balance the competing demands for quality, scope, time and cost associated with any project.
Our belief in relationship building and clear communication with our clients is ultimately what helps us ensure that projects are completed on time, within budget and meet the criteria necessary for success.
Contact us to learn more about how we successfully manage our clients' projects.
Sustainability Consulting
We are a group of people passionate about creating a sustainable future. We believe our collective efforts and passion for sustainable design can have a positive impact on the environment and the future of our communities.
In today’s world, designing and building sustainable infrastructure that provides a social return on investment while being environmentally responsible and resource-efficient has become a priority. As a society, we have become more aware of how our growing need for new vertical infrastructure can impact the environment and the communities where we live, work and play. In addition, with legislation and standards regarding new buildings constantly evolving, building owners and managers need to be informed of potential challenges that they may encounter as well as the opportunities that may be available to them.
Sustainable building design should also focus on finding ways to optimize existing infrastructure. By focusing on revitalizing and optimizing existing infrastructure, building owners can realize an array of benefits that not only help reduce their impact on the environment but also help increase their bottom line.
As a leader in sustainable design, our commitment to environmental responsibility includes analyzing energy efficiency, reducing life cycle costs, and facilitating various green building certifications. Our goal is to reduce, minimize and ultimately eliminate the carbon footprint of vertical infrastructures by providing our clients with integrated design solutions for new and existing buildings while implementing responsible solutions that consider economic, social, and environmental issues.
Our sustainability consulting services include the following:
Energy Management & Performance Engineering
- Energy Modelling
- Measurement and Verification
- Energy and Water audits
- Commissioning, retro-commissioning, system optimization
- Lighting simulations
- Thermal modelling of products and systems such as determining effective insulation values and assembly performance
- Building control system optimization
Green Building & Renewable Energy Consulting
- Renewable Energy Systems Analysis
- Renewable Energy System Design
- LEED Facilitation
- BOMA BEST Consulting
- Energy management and efficiency training and education
- Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Funding and grant assistance
- Energy Efficiency Program Development
- Embodied carbon analysis
Strategic Renewal Planning & Implementation
- Capital Planning Advisory Services
- Detailed engineering investigations to establish a building’s condition, identify the source of issues and/or recommend solutions to help enhance current operational issues including:
- Building Condition Assessments
- Reserve Fund Studies
- Life cycle studies and financial planning
- Explore various options for the implementation of an engineered solution
- Provide the necessary technical information to make a business case for projects
- Technical services that take facility projects from conception to implementation
- Campus decarbonization services
Energy efficiency financing and business planning services (through partnerships)
- Energy efficiency business plans and planning
- Partnership with Alberta and National private financing focused on energy efficiency opportunities.
- Partnership to provide business planning services.
- WE is accredited to provide energy efficiency designs for privately financed energy efficiency projects
- Guaranteed rate of return to owners from reduced energy costs
- Real estate portfolio assessments and strategic planning