Introba Canada Brochure

Interconnected Impact. Resilient Performance.

Transforming the Built Environment with Curiosity, Ingenuity, and Accountability

At Introba, we lead with curiosity to understand how building systems connect and their true potential impact. We apply ingenuity to translate our insights into practical, integrated solutions that are designed to perform, adapt, and respond to changing needs, technologies, and conditions. And we stand on accountability, designing for outcomes that deliver over time, not just intent at design.

By uniting advanced engineering and consulting practices, thoughtful design, and collaborative partnership, we create lasting solutions that elevate the human experience and protect the planet, transforming the built environment.

500+

Employees in Canada

40+

Years in Canada

100+

Net Zero Energy projects

700+

Certified projects under LEED, BREEAM, Living Building Challenge, and Green Star sustainability rating systems

We create interconnected impact, built on resilient performance

On every project – from those that quietly keep life running to those that transform cities and skylines – we help clients navigate complexity with curiosity, ingenuity, and accountability. We work side -by-side to understand what matters most, tailor our expertise and approach to best meet project needs, and design solutions that make a lasting difference.

Our work creates impact that grows over time – better-performing buildings, smarter systems, healthier environments, and more resilient communities.

Systems that Connect

We unite ideas across disciplines and perspectives to spark clearer thinking, better solutions, and stronger outcomes, always grounded in each project’s unique context and environment.

Impact that Multiplies

We design for outcomes that grow – creating benefits that extend from buildings to their occupants, communities, and the planet.

Solutions that Scale

We turn proven ideas into adaptable approaches that fit each project – rightsizing our teams and expertise to meet clients’ needs.

Promises that Deliver

We set clear expectations, own outcomes, and maintain consistent standards throughout the project life cycle.

Stories that Lead

We elevate real stories from our people and projects to inspire progress, shape conversations and lead our industry forward.

Expertise Assembled

Our work is delivered through four integrated practices that come together across the full project lifecycle. From early strategy through design, construction, and ongoing performance, we focus on how systems connect and operate in practice, not just on paper.

Our teams bring a deep understanding of local conditions, working as part of a global network to share insight, respond to context, and deliver solutions that perform over time.

Buildings

Planning, consulting, engineering, and design.

We provide mechanical, electrical, fire protection, and water systems engineering for buildings and districts.

Our engineers design systems that enhance building performance for the benefit of owners and investors, occupiers, communities, and the environment.

These core MEPF engineering capabilities are supported by a continually evolving range of planning, consulting, engineering, and design specialisms.

Strategy

Translating bold ideas into action.

We develop innovative policy frameworks, performance standards, and delivery roadmaps.

We work with policymakers, government agencies, institutions, and businesses to develop strategies for organizations, projects, campuses, portfolios, districts, cities, and regions.

We put guardrails around strategic objectives while offering ongoing support to monitor their implementation.

Digital

Connecting the digital to the real.

We help clients to build better with digital insights and expertise.

We fuse the power of data, emerging technologies, intelligent buildings and transportation, and domain expertise to transform how buildings and communities work.

From technology visioning to data-driven operations, our teams map our clients’ needs to deliver emerging solutions for impact, resilience, and success.

Analytics

Putting data behind decisions.

Our design analysts combine expertise in architecture, engineering, physics, computer science, and data science.

We work closely with our buildings, strategy, and digital practices to undertake parametric performance analyses, create specialized modeling tools, and develop new ways to visualize, explore, and understand data.

We equip clients and design teams with the insights they need to make well-informed strategic decisions.

Your projects Our passion

Our sector leadership model combines our technical expertise and local specialist knowledge to best support the needs of our clients.

Markets

We provide our full range of services across various markets, assembling cross-sector teams to tackle developments involving multiple building and mobility types:

Science & Technology

– Laboratories

– Data Centres

– Pharmaceutical

– Advanced Manufacturing

– Research Facilities

– Clean Rooms

Education

– Schools – Colleges

– Universities – Campuses

– District Energy

– Student Housing

– Childcare

Government – Offices – Defence – Public Safety

– Justice – Policy & Code Advisory – Sports & Recreation

– Libraries & Museums – Arts Theatres

Mobility – Aviation – Rail & Transit

– Port Facilities – Electric Vehicles

Healthcare – Clinics – Hospitals – Medical Offices

– Medical Research

– Surgery Centres

– Cancer Centres

– Long-Term Care Facilities

Commercial – Offices – Residential – Retail – Hotels – Hospitality – Industrial

Climate & Sustainability

Deep Green Pedigree

We support the health and well-being of communities by bridging the natural environment with the built environment, helping to address the challenges of climate change by blending creative problem-solving, thoughtful engagement, and comprehensive qualitative research with technical rigour.

Our practice maximizes impact and deliver work across all scales, from developing international standards for Net Zero carbon development to optimizing individual building components to minimize their resilience and whole-life carbon impact.

High Performance

Leaders in designing climate-positive and energy-efficient buildings, we deliver Zero Carbon and Passive House design and consulting services for educational facilities, corporate offices, residential developments, visitor centres, and community hubs.

A-Grade Advice

Our advisory team accelerates the achievement of sustainability goals for organizations, at all levels of governments and for infrastructure, district, and masterplan developments.

Design Analytics

We empower design teams to make better-informed integrated decisions — founded on comprehensive analysis and supported by empirical modeling — ranging from driving whole building performance to optimizing the performance of entire districts.

Strategic Thinking

The climate and sustainability landscape challenges both public and private sectors; we know this because we’re at the table, shaping policy, regulations, codes, and industry standards.

Science & Technology Engineering Innovation

From research laboratories to high-speed computing facilities, we help create some of the world’s most technologically complex buildings.

We provide strategic master planning, building systems engineering, consulting, and commissioning services for S&T clients around the globe.

Our capability includes research and teaching laboratories, life sciences, clean rooms, data centers, greenhouses, pilot plants, pharmaceutical facilities, advanced manufacturing, and technology-focused corporate campuses.

Energy Conservation and Sustainability

We are pioneers of sustainable S&T projects — buildings designed for the comfort, health and safety of users and optimized for energy and environmental performance.

Next Generation Laboratories

We are engineers for some of the world’s most advanced private-sector, institutional, and government research facilities.

Comprehensive Data Center Services

We offer a full suite of advisory and consulting services across the project lifecycle — feasibility assessments and strategic analysis, programming and budgeting, design and implementation, commissioning, relocation planning, and move management.

High-Tech Corporate Campuses

We work with the world’s leading tech companies to create environments that support innovation.

RECENT AWARDS

2022

Healthcare

Elevating Care

From designing a major new hospital to renovating an outdated medical office building, we blend innovation, engineering expertise, and sustainable practices to create high-performance healthcare environments.

We provide fully integrated technology consulting, medical equipment planning, systems engineering, design analytics, climate resilience planning, and sustainability consulting.

Technology Integration

We weave cutting-edge technology systems into the fabric of healthcare facilities, creating a connected ecosystem that supports health professionals and enhances patient experience at every stage — from diagnostics to recovery care.

Medical Equipment Planning

Our equipment planning team is comprised of architects, nurses, biomedical engineers, and medical technicians working together to shape spaces from concept to final installation.

Their mission is to empower caregivers with the medical equipment they need to provide world-class treatment, optimal functionality, and seamless integration within clearly defined budget parameters.

Sustainable Healthcare Facilities

We combine high-performance green design and engineering principles with an understanding of occupant wellbeing.

Our integrated approach to sustainability improves outcomes for patients, medical professionals, the communities they serve, and the planet we share.

RECENT AWARDS

Decarbonization

Low Carbon Torchbearers

From guiding policy and decision-making to deep green energy systems, building retrofits, and zero-carbon district energy systems, we help our clients achieve their carbon reduction goals.

Our team provides strategic master planning, decarbonization studies with financial analysis, and thermal energy systems consulting, engineering, and commissioning services for clients, including universities, governments, airport authorities, thermal utilities, and developers, around the world.

We lead the industry in innovating and implementing flexible, resilient, next-generation solutions for district energy systems, backed by strong environmental and financial performance.

The Path to Zero Carbon

We provide consulting services, including in-depth studies of existing building portfolios and thermal energy infrastructures, to advise on robust strategies to achieve true sustainability while meeting the triple bottom line.

Seeing the Big Picture Pioneers of multi-energy systems, we integrate multiple technologies into elegant system configurations to meet project goals, such as heat pumps, geo-exchange, sewer or process heat recovery, thermal energy storage, and electrical microgrids.

Designing for the Future

Using our extensive understanding of passive building design, we create deep green energy retrofit solutions for existing buildings that achieve sustainable and regenerative performance while minimizing stranded assets.

Crunching the Numbers

We evaluate the financial performances of different options to generate clear life cycle financial metrics and graphics to go with our technical solutions.

RECENT AWARDS

2022 Award for Sustainable Leadership in Corporate Real Estate by CoreNet Global – Google Bay View, Mountain View, CA, USA

2021 Heritage BC Award of Honour in Conservation – The Exchange, Vancouver, BC Canada

2016 AIBC Lieutenant-Governor of BC Awards in Architecture, Medal

– Telus Gardens, Vancouver, BC Canada

2018 Stephen R. Kellert Award for Biophilic Design International Living Future Institute

– Van Dusen Gardens, Vancouver, BC Canada

Education

Nurturing the Next

We set standards, design systems, and optimize the performance of learning environments from early years to executive education.

Academic facilities are long-term investments. They need to both meet the needs of today and be resilient, adaptable and scalable to respond to changes in technology, teaching methods, and climate.

Inspiring Young Minds

Our projects embrace and embody the values of the institutions they serve.

They are an educational resource in their own right, inspiring the next generation with exemplars of energy and water efficiency, innovative integrated systems, and features to improve health, wellbeing, and cognitive performance.

Decarbonizing Campuses

We guide institutions on their path towards net zero emissions. We develop decarbonization roadmaps, audit and optimize existing assets, transition campus utilities to all-electric operation, integrate renewable energy generation and storage, and design and commission energy-saving building systems.

Resilient by Design

Harnessing the power of design analytics, we work with project design teams to optimize the form, massing, orientation, and skin of new educational buildings so that they can face extremes of climate with confidence today and for years to come.

RECENT AWARDS

2023 IES Illumination Awards – SFU Harbour Front Theatre, Vancouver, BC, Canada

2023 AJ Awards Higher Education (shortlisted) – Cheng Yu Tung Building, Oxford, UK

2023 Passivhaus Award – Hackbridge Primary School, London, UK

2021 Austin Green Awards – Holdsworth Education Center, Austin, TX, USA

2021 OEPA Best in Province – Limberlost Place, George Brown College, Toronto, ON, Canada

2019 Building Health Leadership Award – UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, CA, USA

2018 USGBC Sustainable Innovation – Robert Redford Conservancy, Claremont, CA, USA

2018 AIA COTE Top 10 – Sonoma Academy’s Janet Durgin Guild & Commons, Santa Rosa, CA, USA

Commercial

Building Sustainable Value

We work with owners and developers to create high performance, sustainable assets that deliver value for investors and building users alike.

Our commercial buildings portfolio spans multiple building types — from high-rise residential towers to ground-scraping corporate campuses.

Generating Value

We bring to every project an acute awareness of the business and delivery models that underpin their feasibility and viability. We add value by leveraging our capabilities in strategy, building systems engineering, technology, and analytics.

Mixed Use Development

Our mixed-use commercial projects combine workplace, living, retail, industrial, sports, entertainment, and hospitality functions, delivered by teams with expertise in delivering across multiple building types.

Strategic Insights and Analysis

We lead workshops that set direction, and provide design analysis that identifies opportunities to reduce cost, lower environmental impact, increase performance, and enhance user experience.

Advanced Building Systems

We engineer the systems that enable safe, secure, resilient, resource-efficient, and comfortable building operation. Our technology consultants equip projects with smart digital infrastructure, and our commissioning teams help buildings realize their performance potential in use.

RECENT AWARDS

2023 ENR Best Global Project – Google Bay View, Mountain View, CA, USA

2023 AIA COTE Top 10 – Casa Adelante 2060 Folsom, San Francisco, CA, USA

2022 BCO Regional Awards – Refurbished/Recycled Workplace – ASOS HQ, London, UK

2022 ULI Excellence in Mission Advancement – ASHRAE HQ, Atlanta, GA, USA

2022 BESA Net Zero Initiative – Room2 Hotel, Chiswick, UK

2019 ULI Excellence in Adaptive Reuse/Repurposing – Interface HQ, Atlanta, GA, USA

Light Studio

Illuminating Ideas

Spanning diverse scales and project types, we provide fully integrated lighting design services for clients in Canada and across the globe, from bridges, urban greenways, and university campuses to museums and public art installations.

Innovative Solutions

Transforming spaces is not just our passion; it is our expertise. With meticulous attention to detail and a focus on creativity and innovation, we craft immersive experiences that captivate the senses and exceed industry standards around the globe.

Customized Excellence

No two projects are alike, and neither are our lighting solutions. We specialize in tailoring each design to suit the unique essence of our clients’ vision, ensuring that every space is infused with its own distinctive character and charm.

Collaborative Partnership

By working hand-in-hand with architects, interior designers, and developers, we transform your vision into reality with precision and flair. Grounded in research and driven by a passion for excellence, our designs are informed by the latest insights and innovations.

Sustainable Brilliance

With a focus on energy-efficient technologies and environmentally friendly practices, our designs not only enhance the beauty of your spaces but also minimize their environmental footprint. By prioritizing sustainability without compromising on style or performance, we create lighting solutions that lead to brighter, more sustainable future.

RECENT AWARDS

Government

Trusted Partners

We work with national, regional, and local government clients to engineer and optimize the public buildings upon which we all depend, and to develop policy that shapes our built environment for the better.

Smart Policy

We help cities around the world develop and deliver forward-thinking policies for climate action, adaptation, and resilience.

We model, test and evaluate policy impacts, lead multistakeholder workshops, and help clients communicate effectively with both internal and external audiences.

Climate Leadership

We identify pathways to net zero carbon emissions for government clients — through policies, programs, masterplans, across portfolios, and in the design of new and retrofitted public buildings.

Value for Money

Over 70 years' experience across hundreds of government projects and multiple building types allows us to engineer high performance, durable, resilient, and adaptable public assets that are cost-effective to operate and affordable to construct.

Alignment & Understanding

We understand the processes, procedures, communications, documentation methods, and design requirements unique to the government sector, including sustainability, energy, anti-terrorism force protection, building information modeling, and commissioning.

RECENT AWARDS

2023

Mobility

Transforming Transportation

Innovation across all modes of transit and at their intersection.

We develop sustainability strategies, design building and district systems, and integrate security, technology, and baggage automation infrastructure to make travel seamless, sustainable, enjoyable and secure.

Improving the Journey

We leverage technology to enhance passenger experience. Our teams enable digital connectivity, facilitate safety and security, expedite baggage check and collection, and enhance passenger comfort, health and wellbeing.

Setting the Standards

We develop bespoke sustainability management plans for airport operators that guide sustainable operations.

As authors of PARAS 0016 we developed the methodology and tools to support planning and conduct of airportwide Security Vulnerability Assessments — a framework that addresses criminal and terrorist threats, and natural hazards.

Building Systems

Our engineers design the net zero energy infrastructure, high-performance terminal and support buildings that drive operational success and deliver on environmental commitments.

Baggage Automation

We optimize baggage handling operations, reduce energy consumption, and support future growth through planning, assessment, design, procurement, installation, and commissioning of complex automated systems.

RECENT AWARDS

Building Performance

Optimizing Operations

We empower building owners and occupiers to operate and maintain their buildings effectively and efficiently.

Our team members have deep, hands-on experience in the installation, operation, and troubleshooting of heating ventilation, cooling, electrical, plumbing, and envelope systems; energy management, controls, and building automation systems (BAS).

Using a structured and auditable approach to building commissioning enables us to maximize energy efficiency, decrease operational carbon, improve indoor environmental quality, and reduce operating costs for our clients.

Beyond Checks and Balances

We are active participants across the entire commissioning process for new and existing buildings — from design review through installation, testing, and occupancy.

Commissioning, Covered

From re-commissioning and retro-commissioning to energy audits, building condition assessments, and total building integration testing, we can support the performance verification of today’s high-performance buildings.

Health and Wellbeing

We look beyond a building’s infrastructure to see how optimized buildings can enhance occupants’ well-being by verifying the testing, adjusting, and balancing of air and hydronic systems for efficient operation, thermal comfort and air quality, and effective distribution.

Using Real-time Data

Our bespoke iPerform service offering optimizes energy efficiency, minimizes greenhouse gas emissions, reduces operating costs, and maximizes occupant comfort.

ABOUT INTROBA

Introba is a global engineering and consulting firm with more than 1,000 specialists across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia, and Singapore. We help clients improve the performance, reliability, and sustainability of the built environment through mechanical, electrical, technology, security, and fire systems engineering, supported by digital advisory, systems integration, and sustainability consulting services.

Guided by curiosity, ingenuity, and accountability, we work with public and private organizations across healthcare, aviation, education, science and technology, transportation, and commercial development to deliver solutions that meet today’s needs and adapt to tomorrow’s demands.

OUR COMMITMENTS

How we work extends beyond individual projects. It informs how we connect systems, make decisions, and deliver solutions that continue to perform in practice for people, communities, and the environment.

Learn about our commitments

OUR GLOBAL REACH

United States

Atlanta

Chicago

Dallas

Houston

Indianapolis

Kansas City

Los Angeles

Miami

New Haven

New York

Oakland

Pensacola

San Diego

Seattle

St. Louis

Washington

Canada

Calgary

Edmonton

Kelowna

Toronto

Vancouver

Victoria

United Kingdom

London

Oxford

Ireland

Dublin

Serbia

Belgrade

Australia

Brisbane

Melbourne

Sydney

Singapore

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