Green Building Design and Certification

With legislation and energy codes becoming increasingly stringent, building owners, investors and developers are increasingly committing to greener and more sustainable buildings. Green building design and certification offers a multitude of benefits: optimizing building performance, gaining recognition, attracting investors and tenants, and leaving a positive impact on the environment and communities.

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WSP is Canada’s leader in greening new and existing buildings and helping buildings achieve recognition with industry-leading labeling and certification programs. In the last fifteen years, WSP has delivered over 600 energy conservation measure studies, including financial analysis, as part of our 700 LEED certified building projects and other green building and incentive projects. We can help you improve leasability, reduce operating costs, and boost performance by achieving third-party recognition for your green building efforts. We work closely with design and construction professionals to deliver a building that meets your performance and sustainability objectives, and creates long term value for investors, occupants, the environment and communities.

Climate Change, Resilience and Sustainability

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Energy auditing and portfolio benchmarking

We are certified in energy and greenhouse gas (GHG) auditing and have an extensive performance database of over 2,000 buildings across Canada, which allows us to benchmark your building or portfolio’s energy and water performance, information that can help you engage property management teams and advance your energy and water saving initiatives.

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Illustrative design analysis

Our team focuses on delivering optimal performance from buildings, performance measured in terms of reliability, maintainability, energy efficiency, GHG emissions, embodied carbon and resilience. With a team that has backgrounds in design, management, operations, and construction, we ensure owners receive the full value from their investment in building systems.

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Certifications

We can support you in all steps of the certification process, including CaGBC Zero Carbon Building, LEED certification/recertification, BOMA BEST, WELL, Fitwel, Living Building Challenge, Envision and other new or customized frameworks. Due to the large number of projects we certify each year, we are constantly improving our workflow to find efficiencies, improve timelines, reduce technical risk and deliver more value for the same price.

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Life-cycle costing and return on investment

WSP has developed a service to support clients in using Return on Investment (ROI) analysis, including Life-Cycle Costing (LCC), to maximizing property value and long-term energy security, while achieving significant GHG reductions. Beyond our LEED project experience, we have recently applied processes similar to the enhanced ROI/LCC approach discussed above to five government projects in Canada.

Additional capabilities

Daylight, glare and thermal comfort studies
Buildings tools and dashboards
Planning and design (PDC) consulting
Whole Building Life-Cycle Assessment (WBLCA)

Clients we help

Investors, businesses and industry

We can support you in designing leading-edge green buildings and obtaining international recognition through renowned certifications and frameworks. Our skilled multidisciplinary team can support you in benchmarking and reporting on your building or portfolio performance, and can help you design green buildings and communities that meet your climate and sustainability objectives.

Infrastructure owners and operators

We can help you measure and manage the performance of your building portfolio, and create a customized plan to help you green your buildings, meet requirements, and obtain certifications.

Government

We employ advanced software and tools to help you monitor and benchmark your buildings, and can help you navigate the complexities of green building standards and certifications. We can also help you develop green building requirements for your government, agencies or communities to help you achieve your net zero objectives.

Real estate

We understand the financial, regulatory and marketing challenges and opportunities of sustainable design and can help developers navigate these issues to get the most value from their capital investments. We can help you understand and manage the performance of your assets through advanced modelling tools. We can also support you in the modelling, design and certification of green buildings and land development using industry-leading frameworks and best practices.