Services
BUILDING DESIGN
- Custom Residential Design | Energy-Efficient, Contemporary & Traditional, Cottage and Urban Design to R2000 & LEED Standards. (Ontario, BC & California Building Code Experience)
- Prefabricated Dwellings | Architectural, MEP/HVAC, Structural & Millwork Design for Mobile, Kit & Modular Buildings. Highly specialized in Trailer & Travel-Trailer Design to ANSI/CSA Standards
- Highrise & Commercial Design | Building Information Modelling using Graphisoft ArchiCad15, Inter-operability with all other Architectural CAD and BIM Platforms
- Small Commercial Design | Specialized in Healthy Workplaces, Clinics, Offices, Schools using Sustainable, Natural & Durable Materials
- Visualization & Animations | Advanced radiosity Still-Image & Animation rendering using Artlantis Studio software & post-processing tools such as Adobe PS, After Effects, iDVD/iMovie, Final-Cut-Pro
BUILDING INFORMATION MODELING
- ArchiCad BIM | Creation of Integrated Templates (Structure, Finishes, Millwork, Costing & Energy Analysis) for construction modelling, creation of full architectural and permit plans
- ArchiCad Training & Implementation | Establishing Small & Large Office-wide Templates Collaboratively Designed for Optimum uptake among staff & management, staff training & individual AC-tutoring
- ArchiCad Model Management | Coordination of large office design teams & interdisciplinary design (ie. coordination of MEP/HVAC/Structural/Civil/LS/Historic/Code Consultants)
SUSTAINABLE DESIGN CONSULTING
- Energy Efficient Design | Energy Modelling for LEED, EnerGuide80, CBIP, R2000, PassivHaus, Living Building & other standards.
- MEP/HVAC Design | Preliminary Residential System Design & Energy Modelling, Coordination of Engineering & Subcontractors
- Energy Efficient Construction | Coordination of Contractors to Build to LEED, CBIP, R2000, PassivHaus, Living Building & other standards.
- Healthy Construction | Advisement, Design & Specification Writing for clients with MCS (Multiple Chemical Sensitivities), Daycares/Nurseries, Schools – extensive knowledge of materials & systems for specialized design
- Energy Efficiency Retrofits | Services for Commercial & Residential; Thermal & Envelope Analysis & Energy Modelling, Passive Architectural Systems Design, Renewable Energy Systems Design & Cost-Benefit Reporting to determine best practices
- Project & Contract Management | Authoring & Solicitation of RFP’s for contractors to bid on efficiency-based improvement work. Vetting & Advisement Services, and contract management.
WEB DESIGN, OFFICE VIRTUALIZATION
- Web Design | Custom Website Design or CMS-Based Web Design using WordPress; EXAMPLE 1, EXAMPLE 2, EXAMPLE 3, EXAMPLE 4
- Social Media & Inbound Marketing | Integration of your website with any/all social media systems, including push-button simulcasting to all media platforms i.e. Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Linked-In, etc.
- PHP/mySQL-Based Fileservers & Online Collaboration Tools | Utilizing Basecamp, activeCollab, and other custom platforms
- Virtual Office Design | Implementation of office-wide, server-based email, VoIP, calendaring, documents, fileservers, mobile-devices, etc. using applications such as GoogleApps, Filemaker, etc. lowering overhead and streamlining efficiency, information retrieval and archiving, management & organizing digital assets & resources.
- Domain Registration, Management, Maintenance | Including setting up sites, databases, email, calendaring, statistics & other domain-level services
- Advanced Design | There are limits to what I can do, but I know great coders that will work for food – Together we can accomplish any project!
Software: Expert-level knowledge of ArchiCad 15 (AutoCad-Interoperable-3D BIM), EnergyPlus, EnergyPro, Ecotect, EcoDesigner, Hot2000, Artlantis Studio, Sketchup, ProjectFastTrack/MS Project, Adobe CS, WordPress/PHP/HTML/CSS/mySQL/GDL, Filemaker, OS X, MS Office Suite & Many More…
