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R6 Systems · a Firm Six co-venture

Every service a suite needs, in one factory-

built unit.

Mechanical, electrical, hot water, controls and alarms engineered together and built as a single assembly by our strategic manufacturing partner. It arrives pre-wired, pre-plumbed and factory tested, wheels down a standard corridor, and connects to two base-building services. The riskiest and slowest part of your build stops being either.

Mechanical

Electrical

Hot water

Controls & alarms

Benefits

What we can share

The shift

Site work is where schedules die. We move it indoors.

Benefits

Conventionally these systems arrive as separate trade packages, coordinated on site, under weather, at the worst moment in the schedule. Four things change when they arrive as one.

Coordination happens once

The assembly is engineered once and repeated. Clashes are resolved in the model instead of surfacing in the field as change orders.

Less exposure to trade labour

Skilled trade availability is the constraint no schedule can design around. A reference 100-unit building goes from 25 trades over five months to 15 installers over days.

No performance drift

Equipment and circuits are tested before the unit leaves the factory, and every suite is metered, so what was specified is what gets measured.

Electrification without the premium

All electric is usually the expensive option, which is why it gets value engineered out. Consolidating the systems removes enough cost that the target survives the pro forma.

The approach

Engineer the assembly once

One validated assembly carrying mechanical, electrical, hot water, controls and alarms together, designed to repeat. The engineering effort is spent once and amortised across every unit rather than re-solved floor by floor.

Build it in a factory

Assembled and tested under controlled conditions by our manufacturing partner. Quality is inspected on a line rather than discovered at commissioning.

Install as a unit

Arrives complete and connects in a fraction of conventional rough-in time. Fewer trades on site, fewer sequencing dependencies, a shorter critical path.

Verify against the model

Performance is third-party validated so the number you were sold is the number the building delivers.

Validated performance

78.5%

Operational carbon reduction, heating and hot water

95.7%

Less time on site · 150 days to 6.5

60%

Less on-site labour than conventional

3,993 t

CO2e saved over ten years per 100-unit building

Life cycle assessment prepared to ISO 14040/14044 and EN 15978, independently reviewed and validated by a third-party engineering consultancy. Reference building: 100-unit, 10,000 m² mid-rise residential in Toronto, Ontario 2025 grid intensity. Cost and specification data released under NDA.

Manufacturing

A co-venture with an established manufacturing partner.

R6 Systems pairs Firm Six engineering with a production partner already operating at scale. This is not a prototype looking for a factory. The line exists and the capacity is real.