Firm Six · Toronto
01 · The three ventures
Venture 01
Mechanical and energy design, feasibility and carbon strategy for buildings that have to hit a target. Education, laboratory, residential and commercial, from an 8,000 sf concept to 500,000 sf of federal laboratories.
MEP design
Feasibility
Net zero
Enter Design & Strategy →
Venture 02
A suite’s entire mechanical, electrical, hot water and controls, built and tested in a factory as one unit. It rolls down the corridor, connects to two services, and turns months of trade sequencing into days. Specifications and pricing under NDA.
Factory built
Suite level MEP
All electric
Enter R6 Systems →
Venture 03
Land waiting on entitlements earns nothing while it waits. Refresh works with developers and landowners to put held parcels and building interiors into production, through agritech and urban farming.
Interim land
Indoor ag
Outdoor ag
Enter Refresh Farms →
02 · Selected work
Evolv1
Canada’s first zero carbon building, design and performance certified
Waterloo, ON · 104,000 sf · 2018
CNL Chalk River
Three mass timber buildings delivered through IPD
Chalk River, ON · 500,000 sf · 2023
FNTI
Net zero carbon academic building for the First Nations Technical Institute
Tyendinaga, ON · 54,000 sf
03 · About
Firm Six started as an engineering consultancy and stayed one. What changed is what we do when the consultancy runs into a limit. When the trade labour to install a system on site was not there, we went and had it built in a factory instead. When a client was carrying land through a five year entitlement window with nothing on it, we looked at what the land could earn in the meantime.
Each answer became a venture. They are separate businesses with separate clients, and they are run by the same small group of people, which is why the numbers in one are allowed to embarrass the assumptions in another. Toronto based, working across Ontario.
04 · Contact
If you are not sure which venture you need, use the first address. We will route it.
Firm Six, Design & Strategy, R6 Systems
Integrated building systems engineering, prefabrication and urban agriculture. Toronto, Ontario.
Get in touch
Firm Six & R6 Systems
111 Peter St, Suite 700
Toronto, ON M5V 2H1