Evolv1 · Waterloo, ON
104,000 sf · Complete 2018
01 · What we do
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Mechanical and system design for residential, commercial, institutional and laboratory buildings. Stamped, coordinated, buildable, and taken through construction.
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Early stage modelling that tells you what a target costs before it is committed to a pro forma. At community scale this extends to master planning and shared energy infrastructure.
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Net zero and zero carbon pathways that survive value engineering, including certification frameworks, with operational carbon measured rather than assumed.
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Where repetition exists we take it off site. This is the work that became R6 Systems.
02 · Selected projects
From an 8,000 sf brewery concept to 500,000 sf of federal laboratories. The constraint changes; the method does not.
FNTI
In progress
Energy systems · Education
Tyendinaga, ON · 54,000 sf
CNL Chalk River
Complete 2023
Mechanical · Laboratory
Chalk River, ON · 500,000 sf across 3 buildings
Queen & Ashbridge
Occupied
Mechanical · Residential
Toronto, ON · 400,000 sf
GEOpark
Occupied
Mechanical · Residential
Kingston, ON · 120,000 sf · 2023
Bloor / Jane
Concept
Mechanical · Residential
Toronto, ON · 120,000 sf
Innisfil Cetana
Concept
Concept design · Mixed-use
Innisfil, ON · Area TBD
Zero Carbon Brewery
Concept
Concept design · Commercial
Ontario · 8,000 sf
Evolv1
Complete 2018
Sustainability · Commercial
Waterloo, ON · 104,000 sf
03 · How we work
Engineering first, not last
We join early enough to change the outcome. Brought in after the massing is fixed, all we can do is document someone else’s decisions.
One model, three currencies
Capital cost, operating cost and carbon in the same model, so a trade-off is a decision rather than a surprise.
Procurement is design
What can be bought, when, and from whom shapes the drawings. We plan it rather than inherit it.
Validated, not asserted
Performance claims go through third-party engineering validation, and where a building is occupied we measure it afterwards. If we cannot prove it we do not put it in a deck.
04 · Team
Kenny Smith
Co-founder · Innovation & Engineering
Engineer with twenty years in buildings, M.Eng, P.Eng in Ontario, C.Eng and MCIBSE in the UK, LEED AP. Leads all technical development.
Mark Alo
Co-founder · Product & Technology
A decade in building development and a decade in technology and product. Leads product, commercialisation and partnerships.
Start a project
Integrated building systems engineering, prefabrication and urban agriculture. Toronto, Ontario.