Thinkwell Shift is a behaviour change company that specializes in resource conservation. Located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, we create strategies and programs that encourage people to make lasting changes in their daily lives to conserve resources such as water, energy, and waste. Our mission? Creating change, through choice. We work with people and organizations to understand their resource costs and then create programs that achieve cost savings by understanding, engaging, and guiding the customer to motivate behaviour change.
Category: Green Buildings and Retrofits
Atlantic Canada Regional Council
The Atlantic Canada Regional Council of Carpenters, Millwrights and Allied Workers is part of one of North America’s largest building-trades unions, with nearly half a million members in the construction and wood-products industries.
We are leveraging our 142 year history to prepare for tomorrow by training, educating, and representing the next generation of construction professionals and allied workers who are building Atlantic Canada. Our mission is to stand strong for our signatory contractors and help them succeed in today’s marketplace by supplying them with motivated, knowledgeable workers who demonstrate skills, productivity, safety and a strong work ethic every day.
Maderra Engineering Inc.
Maderra is a St. John’s, NL-owned and operated professional company with a comprehensive suite of services and solutions:
- Engineering & Project Management
- Recruitment & Staffing
- Battery Energy Storage Solutions
Founded in 2007 by a team of local engineers, Maderra has a multi-discipline team offering a diverse set of Engineering, Design, and Technical Services across multiple sectors, including:
- Utilities
- Renewable-Clean Energy
- Process Automation & Controls
- Oil & Gas / Subsea
- Industrial & Processing Facilities
- Marine Infrastructure
- Building Infrastructure
Since 2007 Maderra has completed over 1000 projects to over 100 Clients from a broad range of facilities and sectors.
Lat49 Architecture Inc.
LAT49 Architecture Inc. is a multi-disciplinary architectural firm based in St. John’s, Newfoundland, that provides creative architectural solutions to clients across Atlantic Canada. LAT49 is currently the largest architectural firm in Newfoundland and Labrador and it is 100% locally owned. Given our portfolio of work and the ownership structure, LAT49 is well positioned to provide carbon sensitive designs to our clients.
The architects and technologists that are Lat49 Architecture Inc. have a vision for the built environment of our home, Atlantic Canada. It is a vision based on a foundation of scale and context, but it is one that reflects a tradition of adventure, a history of ingenuity and sense of independence. Our environment presents many challenges, but architectural design must rise above these, otherwise it is without merit. Our aim is to find our role in this grand place. We envision something better, an architecture that speaks to us and to all those who experience it, an architecture that is sensitive to the environment. LAT49 is committed to providing our clients quality design with the best service possible to ensure that projects are successful, responsible and enduring.
The firm’s project base includes major offshore oil and gas production facilities on the east coast of Canada, hospitals, post secondary educational facilities, multi-unit residence, schools, community centres, corporate and government offices, retail premises, lighthouses, marine-service buildings, theatres, institutional buildings and recreational facilities. LAT49 have also undertaken a wide range of studies including Carbon Neutral, building envelope assessments, thermographic inspection, master planning, building feasibility, functional programming, land use, energy management, urban and sub-urban design, accessibility anaylsis (including the Rick Hansen Foundation Certification Assessment), environmental and abatement assessments and associated remediation documentation.
Newfoundland and Labrador Association of Architects
The NLAA is the advocacy voice for Architecture and Design in Newfoundland and Labrador. We work to bring awareness to the public and the industry with which we are involved, promote the values of architecture and the positive impact that good design can have. To develop excellence within our exciting profession.
Mysa
Developed in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada with the goal of helping the world save energy, the Mysa Smart Thermostat has found a home in thousands of North American households throughout 2018. Mysa has become the market leader for smart electric heat management, allowing homeowners to cut their own bills by up to 26% while offering more control and precision than traditional dial or programmable thermostats. While smart thermostats have been on the market for years, none were compatible with electric heaters – the source of heat for a sizeable number of households in Newfoundland & Labrador.
Supported by investors from across Canada, Mysa has become one of the fastest growing, highly touted local technology companies in the province since its 2016 inception. At over 30 employees (and growing), the transition from tiny startup to established international brand has been a whirlwind for the eco-conscious founders, brothers Josh and Zach Green.
Fundamental Inc.
Fundamental Inc. is an impact-first climate action consulting firm. Headquartered in Harbour Main, NL, we facilitate strategic planning that captures opportunities for carbon emissions reductions and enables actions to increase climate resilience. We employ a science-based approach, developing climate-conscious decision metrics for our clients. Our services cover all aspects of climate action, including climate vulnerability assessments, strategic plans for climate resilience, eco-asset management frameworks, GHG inventories and carbon management plans, as well as addressing a just transition to a greener economy.
Our mission is to enact climate resilience, social well-being, and lowest life cycle costs.
We work with our clients to achieve their sustainability goals while decoupling GHG emissions output from economic growth and development.
Over the past nine years, Fundamental Inc. has worked with our clients, often on multiple successive projects, to address their needs related to climate action. Fundamental’s service offering covers all aspects of climate action – from environmental impact analysis and strategic planning to implementation of individual projects. Fundamental has a 70% success rate with funding applications and has supported clients in accessing about $33Mil since 2018. We are proud that our services have a beneficial impact for our clients. We work in all private and public sectors.
As an impact-oriented firm, the point and purpose of all our projects is to ensure that the project outcomes bring value to our clients through reducing their environmental footprint, improving their operational efficiency, lowering their operational/capital costs, and increasing their market competitiveness overall.
We offer the following services:
- Climate Action Planning – Mitigation and Adaptation – storm water, wastewater, urban climate, wildlife biology, connectivity and transportation, integrated renewable energy, carbon management planning
- GHG Emissions Inventory, Quantification – ISO 14064
- Net Zero Building Design Supports – building energy models for net zero carbon
- Proposal Application Writing and support services
- Eco-Asset Management – strategic integration of climate-conscious metrics into traditional asset management and financial management frameworks
Fundamental Inc. is a 100% woman-owned business and a Certified B Corporation. Through the annual purchase of NL-based carbon offsets, Fundamental Inc. has been carbon neutral since 2017. Fundamental Inc. is pledged to the UN Race to Zero Campaign’s SME Climate Hub. We have successfully decoupled our operational carbon emissions from our company’s economic growth and development – our 2024 emissions were 32% lower than our 2019 emissions despite our annual revenue being 2.5 times higher. We are doing more good work with less impact.
BOMA Newfoundland & Labrador
As the Building Owners and Managers Association of Newfoundland and Labrador, BOMA represents those professionals who own, manage or support commercial real estate within the province. Providing a strong voice for the industry to advocate for change on major issues, and facilitating the sharing of information and pooling of expertise, ideas and resources for the benefit of our members and the industry at large, BOMA NL is the provincial leader for the commercial real estate industry.
