Most buildings
don't need new
equipment.
They need the equipment they already have to run the sequences it was designed for. We are an engineering consultancy that finds the difference, quantifies it, and verifies that fixing it worked — with the uncertainty published alongside the number.
Seven services,
one accountable
team.
Quwa Smart Services is an engineering consultancy serving commercial, multi-residential, institutional and industrial facilities. Audit, design, implementation oversight and verification come from the same people — nothing is lost in the handoff between the study that recommended the work and the work itself.
Twenty years,
ninety-odd
buildings.
More than fifty commercial and forty multi-residential buildings assessed through condition assessments, ASHRAE Level I–III audits, energy modelling and reserve fund analysis. A quarter of them went on to secure retrofit funding — which is the part that decides whether a study becomes a project.
Field work across central plants, rooftop equipment, boiler rooms and building envelopes — Calgary, Hamilton, Toronto and beyond.
Measure first.
Always.
There is a structural bias in this industry toward capital projects. Capital projects have vendors, and vendors have marketing budgets — nobody sells recommissioning at a trade show. We look for the setpoint before the equipment, because you cannot size a capital project inside a building whose controls are lying to you.
Measure
Clamp-on instruments, temperature loggers and twelve months of utility data. Nothing cut, nothing drilled, no capital request to find out what is actually happening.
Diagnose
Find the gap between design intent and how the building actually runs. It is usually a sequence, a schedule or a sensor — not a machine at the end of its life.
Quantify & fund
Energy, carbon and cost, in the format the funder actually scores. A quarter of the buildings we assess go on to secure retrofit funding.
Verify
Savings confirmed under IPMVP against a fitted baseline, with the confidence interval published beside the headline number.
What that looks
like in practice.
Take one engagement as an example. A 23-storey Calgary office tower built in 1972, assessed for Aspen Properties across five studies under the BOMA Phase II program.
We found an outdoor air sensor frozen at 24 °C. Downstream of that single stuck reading: no economizer, no weather-responsive control, an air handler cooling supply air to 5 °C in August while floor units reheated it, and boilers holding 69 °C through a Calgary summer with nothing to heat.
The number that started
the whole engagement.
Coefficient of performance is just cooling delivered divided by power drawn. The model below runs the real formula on the real measurements from that building. Move the loop ΔT and watch what a plant that moves water instead of heat does to the result.
The same plant that wasted energy all summer is a grid asset on a peak afternoon.
Q-Peak is our aggregator platform for the IESO Save on Energy Peak Performance Program. It forecasts the peak, dispatches the curtailment across the portfolio, proves the reduction against baseline, and settles the payment.
What the data
actually says.
Field notes from buildings we have measured, written for the people who have to make the call — not for a search engine.
Turning HVAC into a revenue stream
Your chiller plant is the largest controllable load in the building. Ontario now pays for that flexibility — but only if you can prove the reduction.
What a COP of 1.0 actually means
A number that low is not a bad day. It is a plant moving water instead of heat — and the arithmetic that proves it takes one line.
Why we adjust the baseline, not the results
A mild winter can manufacture savings that never happened. IPMVP Option C exists to stop you from taking credit for the weather.
Start with what
your meters
already know.
Twelve months of utility bills and an afternoon in the mechanical room is usually enough to tell whether a building has a capital problem or a controls problem. They are very different budgets.