The City of Lougheed

Our field review work supports the quality assurance process through regular and strategic observation to help ensure that the construction meets the design intent. Our field review personnel are qualified and experienced, having a track record of successful projects and an interest in working cooperatively and collaboratively in a team environment. We are solution-oriented with an interest in progress toward practical and cost-effective methods that meet performance expectations.

As an extension of our field review services, we regularly perform various quality assurance tests, including:

• Water penetration testing of glazing assemblies
• Adhesion testing
• Membrane thickness testing
• Whole building and assembly air leakage testing
• Thermographic scanning and ultrasonic testing if required to help confirm the performance of new assemblies

Building enclosure commissioning is a quality process for building projects to help owners ensure that the enclosure of their building meets or exceeds their performance requirements. By applying an iterative process of defining expectations, assessing the results, documenting, and updating of expectations through all phases of a project our team helps project stakeholders achieve success. We have experience and understanding of all of the major commissioning guidelines including ASTM , ASHRAE, NIBS, and LEED.

We thoroughly understand energy codes across North America and frequently consult with government officials in code development. As local jurisdictions and municipalities increase their energy efficiency requirements, we are at the forefront of understanding the implications to system design. Our science-based approach lends to innovative, practical, and cost-effective solutions to constructing code compliant and energy efficient buildings.

Key to meeting or exceeding the energy code requirements is a fundamental understanding of component thermal performance. We have a team dedicated to the component performance modeling.

Our façade engineering services provide a distinctly advanced and more detailed level of design for the building façade and complements our typical building enclosure engineering scope of services.

Our façade engineering skills are utilized on projects where advanced, custom, or completely new building enclosure systems are being considered. Our role is to pro-actively lead the design and prepare drawings and specifications for these systems so that they are sufficient for the work to be tendered. We consider performance issues beyond heat, air, and moisture such as acoustics, structure, cost, impact of construction schedule, global procurement, risk mitigation, and availability of materials. We work closely with manufacturers and have people available to assist with quality control for offshore systems. Our façade engineering team has always been successful at reducing project costs.

One of the main goals of our energy performance services is to inform the design in terms of energy efficiency and sustainability aspects. This can include providing early stage concept design input, completing model iterations to assess the impact of potential design strategies, comparing energy savings against costs, and modeling potential cost savings measures to optimize the design while ensuring performance requirements are met.

We use whole building energy modeling to ensure code requirements are met, in addition to advising design teams on requirements. This could be for a variety of code requirements, eg. BCBC, VBBL, OBC SB-10, BC Energy Step Code, Toronto Green Standard, etc.

We use whole building energy modeling to meet LEED energy prerequisites and credits, in addition to helping the team incorporate energy conservation strategies into the design to get LEED points. We can also manage the entire LEED certification process including advising the team on requirements and documenting credits for certification.