The software
behind the engineering.
Two platforms we run, a controls package most buildings can fund out of an incentive, and the custom builds we deliver for a single client. None of it is a product line we sell alongside the engineering — it is how the engineering gets delivered.
Q-Peak — demand response aggregation and settlement.
Our aggregator platform for the IESO Save on Energy Peak Performance Program. It forecasts the system peak, dispatches curtailment across the enrolled portfolio, proves the reduction against an Appendix C baseline, and settles the payment. A building earns a season payment for flexibility it already has.
Q-IF — the incentive finder.
327 funding routes across ten Canadian provinces, nine US states, Washington DC and both federal levels. Pick the jurisdiction on a map and the building type, and the routes that apply come up — priced against the building’s own consumption, benchmarked in GJ/m² and tCO₂e/m², and kept as a shortlist you can share. Then we file the applications.
Q-Energy.
The whole portfolio on one page, and any building in detail.
A model of each building built from twenty plain-language answers and its utility bills, checked against every new bill. Where the energy goes, how the building compares, what it emits, what to fix first, and every filing the address triggers — each number showing where it came from. The same record becomes an engineer-signed audit when you need one.
Low-cost
building
automation.
A lot of buildings have no central controls at all, and the ones that do often have plant running on a schedule nobody has looked at in a decade. The gas utility funds this work, which changes it from a capital request into an operating decision.
We design it, apply for the funding, bring our controls partner in from day one, and stand in the mechanical room at commissioning.
- Plant run by hand on site, with no remote visibility
- Make-up air units at full output around the clock, with no thermostat control
- No trending and no alarms — a fault surfaced when somebody walked past it
- One interface with live system graphics, readable from off site
- Scheduled, variable-speed control on the air handling
- Trend, alarm and audit history that flags drift before it becomes a failure
Figures are from one completed project, not a quotation. What an incentive covers depends on the building, the measures and the programme terms at the time of application — which is the first thing we check.
Custom
software.
Some problems do not have a product behind them. When a client needs a platform that does not exist, we build it — against their process rather than a specification we wrote — and they own and host the result.
If the problem is one you have and there is no product for it, that is the conversation worth having.
Every one of these
started as a
missing number.
Q-Peak exists because a curtailment cannot be paid for unless it can be proven against a baseline. Q-Energy exists because a utility bill cannot say what to fix first, and a benchmark cannot say how far to trust itself. None of them were built to be sold; they were built because the engineering could not be delivered honestly without them.
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.