Smith + Andersen

About

Smith + Andersen is a trusted Canadian consulting engineering firm with offices in Vancouver, Kelowna, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, London, Hamilton, Toronto, Ottawa, and Halifax. Founded in 1965, Smith + Andersen has grown from an established reputation as trusted mechanical and electrical consultants, reaching new levels of engineering and design excellence in the communications, security, and audio-visual fields, and providing enhanced services such as lighting, building automation systems, and intelligent integrated systems design. From fully-integrated hospitals and welcoming schools, to healthy workplaces and secure transit stations, our team has established lasting relationships with public and private sector clients across the country.

Smith + Andersen has been an established engineering consulting firm in the Alberta market for 45+ years. Our firm has prided itself on delivering professional, reliable and consistent consulting services to our clients throughout this time.

Progressive thinking combined with a sophisticated clientele has resulted in building designs which exceed energy standards—often well in advance of those standards becoming a minimum code requirement. A philosophy of sustainability runs deep throughout the company, and Smith + Andersen makes every effort to encourage responsible, environmentally-friendly design. The full range of services we offer has made Smith + Andersen the company of choice for so many owners who place their trust in us to propose and implement innovative, energy-efficient, sustainable solutions. These clients know that our unique skills and experience in maximizing energy efficiency allows us to match today’s design challenges with more holistic, sustainable solutions.

Highlights

  • Completed over a dozen CAGBC Net Zero Carbon certified projects nationally including 2 in Alberta
  • Completed over 50 LEED certified projects in Alberta
  • Received recognition from Consulting Engineers of Alberta (CEA) for award winning projects that contributed to the advancement of sustainable design (Calgary Cancer Centre, University of Calgary – Matheson Hall, University of Calgary – Taylor Institute, Platform Innovation Centre)
  • Contributed to various conferences and local societies to help promote low energy design and GHG reducing concepts
  • Been involved with over 50 projects that incorporated renewable energy production in Alberta
  • Have completed over 20 whole building retrofit / adaptive reuse projects in Alberta
  • Successfully assisted clients with municipal, provincial, and federal government grant applications focus on energy retrofit projects including TIER, GICB, CIB funding, or third party ESCO programs.
  • Have a dedicated department that specifically works with clients on existing building retrofits, capital renewal, life cycle planning and replacements
  • Work closely with our sister company (Footprint) on providing a wide range of planning, funding, design and implementation strategies for energy retrofit projects.

Services

  • Assessments
  • Commissioning & operations
  • Design, engineering
  • Feasibility
  • Procurement, project delivery

Service area

  • Central Alberta
  • Northern Alberta
  • Southern Alberta

Building types

  • Commercial
  • Hospitals
  • Industrial
  • Multi-unit residential
  • Municipalities
  • Universities & Schools

Project delivery experience

  • Construction management
  • Design-bid-build
  • Design-build
  • Integrated project delivery
  • Progressive design-build

Project certifications

  • BOMA BEST
  • Energy Star
  • LEED

Typical project value

$1 million – $10 million, $10.1 million – $20 million, Greater than $20 million