7 Canadian Green Building Companies Taking Innovation Global
Anchored by large-scale policy commitments and a surge in private and public investment, the global green building market is forecast to grow at an annual rate of 8.1 percent a year until 2030 with an expectation to continue growing at a quick pace for the foreseeable future.
A number of Canadian companies are tapping into that growth. In this list below, we’ve highlighted a few of them that are shipping their green building technology and materials outside the country.
SHARC Energy
SHARC Energy produces wastewater energy transfer products that extract heat from wastewater. Their SHARC product does so by passive means while their PIRANHA heat pump does it actively. The result is reduced energy and water consumption, lowered carbon emissions and energy savings. Their solutions are geared towards multi-family residential, commercial and energy districts. Check out the explainer video below for more details.
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Oxygen8
Oxygen8 makes 100 percent electric ventilation systems. Their HRVs and ERVs improve indoor air quality by exchanging contaminated, stale indoor air with fresh outdoor air while reducing buildings’ carbon emissions. Their products are intended for the residential and commercial markets.
Thermal Energy International
Thermal Energy International helps customers in the industrial and institutional sectors reduce their fuel use and cut their carbon emissions. They offer a range of proprietary products such as their FLU-ACE direct contact condensing heat recovery. Their award-winning products have helped their customers achieve energy savings of 10 to 30 percent with paybacks of just 1 to 5 years.
Ecobee
Ecobee’s smart thermostats have helped their customers save 26 percent on their heating and cooling costs. Their thermostats come bundled with a range of features including smart sensor technology that detects which rooms are occupied and automatically adjusts temperature as well as time of use preheating/precooling to reduce energy usage during peak times and community energy savings to reduce strain on the grid during peak energy demand.
CarbonCure
CarbonCure’s technology allows concrete producers to inject captured CO2 into fresh concrete, which gets permanently embedded in the cement and causes no loss of quality to the concrete. Producers who use this technology are realizing carbon emission reductions of 10 percent or more. See how their technology works in the video below.
Kalesnikoff
Based in BC, Kalesnikoff operates a 110,000-square-foot facility that produces lumber and a range of mass timber products, including CLT and glulam, with a commitment to waste reduction. They also do modular mass timber for the growing prefab home building industry.
Delta Controls
Delta Controls designs hardware and software building automation systems. By controlling a building’s HVAC, ventilation, lighting among other aspects, their solutions reduce energy costs while improving occupancy comfort, health and convenience. Their product, O3, was the winner of the AHR Expo Innovation Award in Building Automation. See it in action below.
