Services Offered

With a long background in construction and lots of experience actually building, Station Craft Building Optimization is here to bring you practical and common sense based approaches to maximizing the long term goals of your projects. Sometimes less is more, less complicated, less energy, less cost, greater benefit. These are the strategies we look for, maximizing the effectiveness of your dollars spent for the greatest return.

Rebates

As a firm with expertise in construction, building envelope, HVAC, and design Station Craft is proud to be able to offer qualified access to the highest level utility and provincial rebates. In the Fortis service area, we are qualified to offer up to 7000 dollars in rebates for new builds by completely integrating and optimizing your energy advisor experience.

By combining a building envelope expert, an HVAC design expert, and an integrated design process, you can maximize the benefit to your build and your client while coming in under your usual budget for an EA.

Better service, more value, less cost, it’s a complete package win/win.

Registered Energy Advisor

New homes and existing homes service.

Whether you’re looking to test your home or work on the compliance side of building a new one, we are here for you. Energy modeling, step code compliance, Integrated Design Process, Mechanical system and ventilation design. The services offered at Station Craft are tailored to maximize your ability to access grant funding and we design strategies that continue to create value for the lifetime of your home.

Energy Advisor and building construction consultation.

  • Fulfilling step code requirements and designing optimized solutions to meet client goals.

  • Deep Energy Retrofit program design, from planning to completion. Check out the upcoming video series Going Deep where I will take you through the process for achieving DER goals.

  • Investigative work: Tools and knowledge of buildings and building science deployed to investigate and identify building performance issues.

  • Modelling: Energy analysis, modelling, and advising with thermal analysis of details pre construction.

  • Site Services: Air sealing consultation, blower door services, leakage identification, thermography, site mock ups, trade team training and Air Boss subcontract role.

  • Integrated Design Process Facilitation. Avoid costly pitfalls and issues before your plans go for permits by utilizing a structured process to find and address them.

  • Whole Home Analysis - Preconstruction: energy modelling that include thermal modelling of details, energy analysis and option sheets, 3D renderings of the thermal envelop and shading analysis of all windows for the most accurate results. These reports take a house plan from an architect and turn it into an option based report for optimizing energy use, sizing systems, 3D modelled fully planned HVAC systems, and carbon accounting.

Energy flow analysis

Thermal Energy Analysis

Get detailed energy flow models to help you understand how thermal bridges and different options will impact the energy flow in your details.

Passive House Consulting

Certified by Passive House International we use powerful energy modelling tools to help you optimize your dollars spent for the greatest impact.

HVAC Systems

Residential HVAC design for proper systems, duct design, HRV system design and plan development to the CAN/CSA-F280-12 standard. Through certifications from both TECA and HRAI our home optimization plans include stamped drawings for ventilation guidelines and HRV system design.

Registered Energy Advisor

As a member of the Canadian Association of Consulting Energy Advisors and a registered professional EA I’m here to work with clients and builders alike on their building projects to fulfill step code requirements and provide testing and analysis along the way.