What We Do
Strategy
We help developers and owners cut emissions, reduce costs, and meet emerging carbon standards — without adding risk, delays, or complexity.
A Life Cycle Approach / We work with development teams early to embed sustainability and circularity into projects from the ground up to enable low-carbon, climate-resilient, and commercially viable outcomes.
Climate Risk + Resilience / We assess climate risks and provide adaptive design strategies. Our work supports long-term resilience through material selection, site planning, and system design, aligning projects with future climate conditions and evolving policy and investor expectations.
Portfolio Benchmarking / Ha/f of what? We work with private and institutional owners to benchmark current practice to measure progress against.
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Certification
From technical guidance to third party review, we help translate design ambition into compliance outcomes.
Life Cycle Assessment / Industry-leading whole-building and systems-level LCAs to identify cost and carbon hotspots to inform impactful design decisions. Our work supports certification pathways and innovation at every design phase.
Environmental Modelling / We provide energy modelling and analysis to meet performance reporting requirements and support passive, low-carbon design strategies.
Material Reuse Audits / We conduct pre-deconstruction audits to identify materials with reuse potential, supporting circular design strategies.
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Policy
We work with public agencies, institutions, and private sector partners to develop clear, implementable policy.
Guidance / We translate technical research into accessible tools, frameworks, and design guidance for policymakers, institutions, and project teams.
Research / Ha/f conducts collaborative, applied research on life cycle costs, carbon, and reuse to inform emerging policy and regulatory pathways.
Grant-Writing / We support public and private sector teams in securing funding for climate-focused design and innovation.
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Education
We design and deliver training that builds capacity across the architecture, development, and policy sectors.
Hands-On Workshops / We offer structured training programs to support continuing education and upskilling. Programs are customized for firm-wide rollouts, institutional needs, or cross-sector audiences.
Academic Research / We lead internationally recognized research seminars at the University of Toronto, and the University of Waterloo.
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