Engineering
services, from
building optimization
to retrofit projects.
We work across commercial, multi-residential, institutional and industrial buildings in Canada and the United States: measuring how a building actually runs, quantifying the gap against design intent, scoping and designing the work that closes it, then verifying the savings afterwards, with the uncertainty stated alongside the number.
Our service
lines.
Quwa Smart Services is an engineering services firm serving commercial, multi-residential, institutional and industrial facilities. Audit, design, implementation oversight and verification are delivered by the same team.
Owners, managers and
operators across Canada.
Q-Peak: our demand response aggregation platform.
Q-Peak is our aggregator platform for the IESO Save on Energy Peak Performance Program. It forecasts the peak, dispatches the curtailment across the portfolio, proves the reduction against baseline, and settles the payment.
Films, notes and
programme news.
Project films shot on site, technical notes written from buildings we have instrumented, and the programme deadlines worth knowing about. All of it lives under About.
Commercial and
multi-residential
portfolios, assessed.
Commercial and multi-residential buildings assessed through condition assessments, ASHRAE Level I–III audits, energy modelling and reserve fund analysis — across office, retail, institutional, healthcare, industrial and residential portfolios. A substantial share go on to secure retrofit funding.
Field work across central plants, rooftop equipment, boiler rooms and building envelopes: Calgary, Hamilton, Toronto and beyond.
$10M+ secured,
and the catalogue
we secured it from.
Almost every retrofit we scope is part-funded. The explorer tracks 109 routes across ten provinces and 40 programme administrators, with the eligibility rule and the deadline stated for each one. Canadian programmes are fully catalogued; U.S. routes are researched per project, on request.
- Save on Energy Retrofit Program — Ontario’s standing electricity incentive, paid per kWh saved. We are an approved commissioning provider under it.
- Enbridge Commercial Custom — gas-side incentive for controls and heat-recovery work, scaled to the therms saved rather than the equipment installed.
- CMHC deep-retrofit funding — for multi-residential and affordable housing, where the grant is scored on modelled energy and GHG reduction. $2.0M secured on one 92-unit co-operative alone.
The same façade,
in two spectra.
Thermal on the left, visible light on the right — one drone pass over a curtain wall. The warm bands running across every floor are heat leaving through the slab edge, and the brighter patches are where it is worst. None of it shows up in a utility bill. All of it shows up in the field.
Our four-step
method.
We examine controls and sequences before equipment. A capital project scoped inside a building whose controls are misreporting gets sized against a load profile that is itself an artefact of the fault.
Measure
Clamp-on instruments, temperature loggers and twelve months of utility data. Nothing cut or drilled, and no capital request to establish what is happening.
Diagnose
Find the gap between design intent and how the building actually runs. It is usually a sequence, a schedule or a sensor, not a machine at the end of its life.
Quantify & fund
Energy, carbon and cost, in the format the funder scores. A substantial share of the buildings we assess go on to secure retrofit funding.
Verify
Savings confirmed under IPMVP against a fitted baseline, with the confidence interval published beside the headline number.
Start with twelve
months of utility
data.
Twelve months of utility bills and an afternoon in the mechanical room is usually enough to establish whether a building has a capital problem or a controls problem. That is what the no-cost assessment is for.
Thirty minutes, with the engineer who would run the work.
No cost and no obligation. Bring twelve months of utility bills if you have them — that alone is usually enough to say whether a building has a capital problem or a controls problem.