Designing Living Systems
Transforming Built Environments
We are the curious Unlocking potential
Building Systems, Sustainability Strategy, Digital Advisory, and Analytics
Introba is a global building engineering and consulting firm with over 1,000 engineers, planners, designers, and consultants in offices across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Serbia and Australia.
History
Introba was formed in 2022 by the coming together of Integral Group — pioneers of deep green engineering — and Ross & Baruzzini, a leading technology, security, and engineering firm, founded in 1953.
Mission
To transform the built environment by designing Living Systems.
Living Systems are dynamic, responsive, intelligent, resilient, adaptable, and interconnected.
We work with our clients to envision, analyze and design the next generation of buildings, districts, and communities with these vital attributes embedded.
Practices
Our Living Systems approach supports our clients across the entire project life cycle: from strategy, through design and construction, to asset performance optimization.
We offer a unique and cohesive range of services across building systems engineering, sustainability strategy, digital advisory, and analytics.
Our services include:
• Baggage Automation Design
• Climate & Sustainability
• Design Analytics
• Digital Advisory
• Fire Engineering
• Lighting Design
• MEP Engineering
• Security & Resilience
• Technology Systems
1,000+
Employees and growing 70+years
Company history
100+
Net Zero Energy projects
700+
Certified projects under LEED, BREEAM, Living Building Challenge, and Green Star sustainability rating systems
Learn more about Introba: introba.com
Have a challenge for us? hello@introba.com
Boulder Commons – Colarado, USA © Bruce Damonte Vancouver House
– Vancouver, BC, Canada © Joe Quad
Designing Living Systems Transforming Built Environments
A Better Way of Tackling the Most Complex Challenges
Think big
At Introba, we take a different approach. We look at the whole system, instead of focusing on the parts.
Welcome to Living Systems.
Be inspired.
Our Living Systems approach is inspired by the resilience of natural, living systems. They are characterized by high levels of interconnectivity, interdependency, resource sharing, and constant change. The same attributes are key to transforming the built environment at all scales, from the city block down to the intricacies of designing and equipping an operating room.
Inquiring minds
We are the curious. We thrive when challenged. Rather than see problems, we see opportunities for better.
Whole systems thinking
Buildings are not standalone. They are connected parts of complex systems. By understanding the connections, we can improve a system’s performance as an integrated whole.
Unlocking potential
For every project, we ask, “what if?”
To break away from business as usual requires creative courage. Each project presents unique opportunities to be harnessed with distinctiveness.
Embracing change
As context changes, living systems adapt and evolve. We design for a dynamic future by embedding resilience, adaptability, and flexibility into our clients’ projects. We face up to uncertainty and harness disruptive innovation.
Get in touch to begin a conversation about how Introba could unlock potential for you: hello@introba.com
Discover the power of Living Systems: introba.com/about/living-systems
Regenerative mindset
Living systems are self-sustaining. We are committed to protecting and enhancing the natural environment through our work and as a business.
Google Bay View Campus – Mountain View, CA, USA © Iwan Baan
Hackbridge Primary School – London, UK © Jack Hobhouse, Architype
Vancouver International Airport Pier D Expansion – Vancouver, BC, Canada © Ema Peter
Expertise Assembled
Right Team, Right Place, Right Time
Buildings
Our work is delivered by four integrated practices. We unlock potential for our clients at every stage of the built environment’s transformation: from strategy, through design and construction, to asset performance and optimization, backed by analytics at every stage. Our regional teams understand deeply the needs of their local markets and are just as confident working collaboratively on projects further afield as part of our global network.
Planning, consulting, engineering, and design.
We provide mechanical, electrical, fire protection, and water systems engineering for buildings and districts.
Our engineers design systems that enhance building performance for the benefit of owners and investors, occupiers, communities, and the environment.
These core MEPF engineering capabilities are supported by a continually evolving range of planning, consulting, engineering, and design specialisms. – Architectural Lighting & Daylight Design
Baggage Handling
Building Systems Commissioning
District Energy and Smart Grids
Fire Engineering
© Catherine Chan/Introba
Strategy
Translating bold ideas into action.
We develop innovative policy frameworks, performance standards, and delivery roadmaps.
We work with policymakers, government agencies, institutions, and businesses to develop strategies for organizations, projects, campuses, portfolios, districts, cities, and regions.
We put guardrails around strategic objectives while offering ongoing support to monitor their implementation.
Digital
Connecting the digital to the real.
We help clients to build better with digital insights and expertise.
We fuse the power of data, emerging technologies, intelligent buildings and transportation, and domain expertise to transform how buildings and communities work.
From technology visioning to data-driven operations, our teams map our clients’ needs to deliver emerging solutions for impact, resilience, and success.
Analytics
Putting data behind decisions.
Our design analysts combine expertise from the fields of architecture, engineering, physics, computer and data sciences.
We work closely with our buildings, strategy, and digital practices to undertake parametric performance analyses, create specialized modeling tools and develop new ways to visualize, explore and understand data.
We equip clients and design teams with the insights they need to make well-informed strategic decisions.
– Policy and Planning
– Masterplan Visioning
– Climate & Sustainability
– Corporate ESG Strategy
– Circular Economy
– Sustainability Certification & Assurance
– Building Health & Wellness
– Digital Advisory
– Digital Transformation
– Reality Capture
– Digital Twins
– BIM
– Immersive Applications
– Automation & AI
– Smart Buildings, Mobility and Infrastructure
– Policy & Infrastructure Analysis
– Building Energy Modeling
– Climate Resilience Assessment
– Life Cycle Analysis
– Whole Life Carbon
– Computational Fluid Dynamics
– Data Analytics & Visualization
– Microclimate Assessment
– Building Envelope Optimization
– Indoor Environmental Quality
© Cosmin Serban
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Your projects Our passion
An award-winning portfolio of commissions at every scale
Our sector leadership model combines our technical expertise and local specialist knowledge to best support the needs of our clients.
Market Sectors
We provide our full range of services across six sectors, tackling developments involving multiple building types by assembling cross-sector teams:
Science & Technology
– Laboratories
– Data Centers
– Pharmaceutical
– Advanced Manufacturing – Research Facilities – Clean Rooms
Commercial
Offices
Residential
Retail
Hotels – Hospitality – Sports – Leisure – Stadia – Entertainment – Mixed Use – Arts & Culture – Industrial
Education – Schools – Colleges – Universities – Campuses – District Energy – Student Accommodation Healthcare – Clinics
Hospitals – Medical Offices
Centers
Centers
Facilities
Federal Healthcare
Defense
Public Safety
Mission Critical
Yasodhara Ashram Temple of Light - Kootenay Bay, BC, Canada © Amy Allcock
ASHRAE Headquarters – Peachtree Corners, GA, USA © Jonathan Hillyer
Boden Headquarters – London, UK © Jefferson Smith
Roam Transit Operations and Training Centre – Banff, AB, Canada © PCL Construction
Westwood Hills Nature Center – St.Louis Park, MN, USA © Corey Gaffer
Bendigo Law Courts – Bendigo, VA, Australia © Dean Vokes
Science & Technology Engineering
Innovation
From research laboratories to high-speed computing facilities, we help create some of the world’s most technologically complex buildings.
We provide strategic master planning, building systems engineering, consulting, and commissioning services for S&T clients around the globe.
Our capability includes research and teaching laboratories, life sciences, clean rooms, data centers, greenhouses, pilot plants, pharmaceutical facilities, advanced manufacturing, and technology-focused corporate campuses.
Energy Conservation and Sustainability
We are pioneers of sustainable S&T projects — buildings designed for the comfort, health and safety of users and optimized for energy and environmental performance.
Next Generation Laboratories
We are engineers for some of the world’s most advanced private-sector, institutional, and government research facilities.
Comprehensive Data Center Services
We offer a full suite of advisory and consulting services across the project lifecycle — feasibility assessments and strategic analysis, programming and budgeting, design and implementation, commissioning, relocation planning, and move management.
High-Tech Corporate Campuses
We work with the world’s leading tech companies to create environments that support innovation.
RECENT AWARDS 2022
Have a challenge for us? sciencetech@introba.com introba.com/work/sectors/science-technology
Western Sydney University Science Building – Parramatta, NSW, Australia © Rodrigo Vargas
California Institute of Technology Thomas Laboratory of Engineering –Pasadena, CA, USA © Lawrence Anderson
UC Santa Cruz Biomedical Sciences Facility – Santa Cruz, CA, USA © Matthew Millman
Canadian Nuclear Laboratories – Chalk River, ON, Canada © Kevin Belanger
J. Craig Venter Institute – La Jolla, CA, USA © Nick Merrick
Rutherford Regional Science and Innovation Centre – Christchurch, New Zealand © Dennis Radermacher
Healthcare
Elevating Care
From designing a major new hospital to renovating an outdated medical office building, we blend innovation, engineering expertise, and sustainable practices to create high-performance healthcare environments.
We provide fully integrated technology consulting, medical equipment planning, systems engineering, design analytics, climate resilience planning, and sustainability consulting.
Technology Integration
We weave cutting-edge technology systems into the fabric of healthcare facilities, creating a connected ecosystem that supports health professionals and enhances patient experience at every stage — from diagnostics to recovery care.
Medical Equipment Planning
Our equipment planning team is comprised of architects, nurses, biomedical engineers, and medical technicians working together to shape spaces from concept to final installation.
Their mission is to empower caregivers with the medical equipment they need to provide world-class treatment, optimal functionality, and seamless integration within clearly defined budget parameters.
Sustainable Healthcare Facilities
We combine high-performance green design and engineering principles with an understanding of occupant wellbeing.
Our integrated approach to sustainability improves outcomes for patients, medical professionals, the communities they serve, and the planet we share.
Mercury Way Medical Office Building – Santa Rosa, CA, USA© Marco Zecchin
Ron Joyce Children’s Health Centre – Hamilton, ON, Canada © Richard Johnson
American University of Beirut Medical Center – Beirut, Lebanon © Perkins & Will
UF Health HVNM Hospitals Operating Room – Gainesville, FL, USA
© Flad Architects
New Royal Adelaide Hospital
Education
Nurturing the Next
We set standards, design systems, and optimize the performance of learning environments from early years to executive education.
Academic facilities are long-term investments. They need to both meet the needs of today and be resilient, adaptable and scalable to respond to changes in technology, teaching methods, and climate.
Inspiring Young Minds
Our projects embrace and embody the values of the institutions they serve.
They are an educational resource in their own right, inspiring the next generation with exemplars of energy and water efficiency, innovative integrated systems, and features to improve health, wellbeing, and cognitive performance.
Decarbonizing Campuses
We guide institutions on their path towards net zero emissions. We develop decarbonization roadmaps, audit and optimize existing assets, transition campus utilities to all-electric operation, integrate renewable energy generation and storage, and design and commission energy-saving building systems.
Resilient by Design
Harnessing the power of design analytics, we work with project design teams to optimize the form, massing, orientation, and skin of new educational buildings so that they can face extremes of climate with confidence today and for years to come.
RECENT AWARDS
2023 IES Illumination Awards – SFU Harbour Front Theatre, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2023 AJ Awards Higher Education (shortlisted) – Cheng Yu Tung Building, Oxford, UK
2023 Passivhaus Award – Hackbridge Primary School, London, UK
2021 Austin Green Awards – Holdsworth Education Center, Austin, TX, USA
2021 OEPA Best in Province – Limberlost Place, George Brown College, Toronto, ON, Canada
2019 Building Health Leadership Award – UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, CA, USA
2018 USGBC Sustainable Innovation – Robert Redford Conservancy, Claremont, CA, USA
2018 AIA COTE Top 10 – Sonoma Academy’s Janet Durgin Guild & Commons, Santa Rosa, CA, USA
Have a challenge for us? education@introba.com introba.com/work/sectors/education
New Westminster Secondary School – New Westminster, BC, Canada © Ed White
Pitzer College Robert Redford Conservancy – Claremont, CA, USA © Costea Photography, Inc.
UC Berkeley Haas School of Business Connie & Kevin Chou Hall –Berkeley, CA, USA © Blake Marvin Photography
Bishop O’Dowd High School Center for Environmental Studies – Oakland, CA, USA © David Wakely
Hackbridge Primary School – London, UK © Jack Hobhouse, Architype
Commercial
Building Sustainable Value
We work with owners and developers to create high performance, sustainable assets that deliver value for investors and building users alike.
Our commercial buildings portfolio spans multiple building types — from high-rise residential towers to ground-scraping corporate campuses.
Generating Value
We bring to every project an acute awareness of the business and delivery models that underpin their feasibility and viability. We add value by leveraging our capabilities in strategy, building systems engineering, technology, and analytics.
Mixed Use Development
Our mixed-use commercial projects combine workplace, living, retail, industrial, sports, entertainment, and hospitality functions, delivered by teams with expertise in delivering across multiple building types.
Strategic Insights and Analysis
We lead workshops that set direction, and provide design analysis that identifies opportunities to reduce cost, lower environmental impact, increase performance, and enhance user experience.
Advanced Building Systems
We engineer the systems that enable safe, secure, resilient, resource-efficient, and comfortable building operation. Our technology consultants equip projects with smart digital infrastructure, and our commissioning teams help buildings realize their performance potential in use.
RECENT AWARDS
2023 ENR Best Global Project – Google Bay View, Mountain View, CA, USA
2023 AIA COTE Top 10 – Casa Adelante 2060 Folsom, San Francisco, CA, USA
2022 BCO Regional Awards – Refurbished/Recycled Workplace – ASOS HQ, London, UK
2022 ULI Excellence in Mission Advancement – ASHRAE HQ, Atlanta, GA, USA
2022 BESA Net Zero Initiative – Room2 Hotel, Chiswick, UK
2019 ULI Excellence in Adaptive Reuse/Repurposing – Interface HQ, Atlanta, GA, USA
Have a challenge for us? commercial@introba.com introba.com/work/sectors/commercial
XILINX Corporate Headquarters – San Jose, CA, USA © Jasper Sanidad Photography
Kimpton Fitzroy London Hotel – London, UK © Tom Mannion
570 Swan Street – Melbourne, VIC, Australia © Peter Bennetts
MNP Tower – Vancouver, BC, Canada © Michael Elkan
Google Bay View Campus – Mountain View, CA, USA © Iwan Baan
Edmonton ICE District, Rogers Place – Edmonton, AB, Canada © Michael Robinson
The Island Quarter – Nottingham, UK © Jestico + Whiles
MNP Tower – Vancouver, BC, Canada © Molly Schremmer
Government
Trusted Partners
We work with national, regional, and local government clients to engineer and optimize the public buildings upon which we all depend, and to develop policy that shapes our built environment for the better.
Smart Policy
We help cities around the world develop and deliver forward-thinking policies for climate action, adaptation, and resilience.
We model, test and evaluate policy impacts, lead multistakeholder workshops, and help clients communicate effectively with both internal and external audiences.
Climate Leadership
We identify pathways to net zero carbon emissions for government clients — through policies, programs, masterplans, across portfolios, and in the design of new and retrofitted public buildings.
Value for Money
Over 70 years' experience across hundreds of government projects and multiple building types allows us to engineer high performance, durable, resilient, and adaptable public assets that are cost-effective to operate and affordable to construct.
Alignment & Understanding
We understand the processes, procedures, communications, documentation methods, and design requirements unique to the government sector, including sustainability, energy, anti-terrorism force protection, building information modeling, and commissioning.
RECENT AWARDS
2023
Have a challenge for us? government@introba.com introba.com/work/sectors/government
Half Moon Bay Library – Half Moon Bay, CA, USA © Anthony Lindsey Photography
Gulf State Park Interpretive Center – Gulf Shores, AL, USA © Michelle Stancil
Denver Water Campus Redevelopment – Denver, CO, USA © Frank Ooms
Oakland Equitable Climate Action Plan – Oakland, CA, USA
City of Toronto Zero Emissions Buildings
Squamish, BC, Canada
Scott Ghomeshi
Clayton Heights Community Centre – Surrey, BC, Canada © Catherine Chan/Introba
Mobility
Transforming Transportation
Innovation across all modes of transit and at their intersection.
We develop sustainability strategies, design building and district systems, and integrate security, technology, and baggage automation infrastructure to make travel seamless, sustainable, enjoyable and secure.
Improving the Journey
We leverage technology to enhance passenger experience. Our teams enable digital connectivity, facilitate safety and security, expedite baggage check and collection, and enhance passenger comfort, health and wellbeing.
Setting the Standards
We develop bespoke sustainability management plans for airport operators that guide sustainable operations.
As authors of PARAS 0016 we developed the methodology and tools to support planning and conduct of airportwide Security Vulnerability Assessments — a framework that addresses criminal and terrorist threats, and natural hazards.
Building Systems
Our engineers design the net zero energy infrastructure, high-performance terminal and support buildings that drive operational success and deliver on environmental commitments.
Baggage Automation
We optimize baggage handling operations, reduce energy consumption, and support future growth through planning, assessment, design, procurement, installation, and commissioning of complex automated systems.
RECENT AWARDS
Have a challenge for us? mobility@introba.com
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LaGuardia New Terminal B – New York, USA © HOK
Abdulaziz International Airport Terminal ©
Moynihan Train Hall RF Testing Support © Benjamin Miller
Vancouver International Airport Pier D Expansion © Ema Peter
Istanbul International Airport City Masterplan – Istanbul, Turkey © Perkins&Will
Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport Baggage Handling Systems © Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport
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Inspiring Change Empowering Changemakers
Leading by Example, Walking the Talk
Thought Leadership
We give clients access to internationally recognized thought leaders in their fields.
We identify talented young professionals with the potential to become changemakers, providing a platform for them to grow and achieve impact.
introba.com/people/thought-leaders
Industry Engagement
Introba plays an active role in support of professional bodies and industry initiatives.
We are active members of US, Canadian, Australian, and UK Green Building Councils and regularly contribute time and expertise to taskforces, working groups and research initiatives.
Defining Best Practices
We work with professional bodies, industry partners and independently to advance the current state of knowledge across the fields in which we practice. Recent contributions include:
– PARAS 0016 : Airport Security Vulnerability Assessments
– Refrigerants & Environmental Impacts: A Best Practice Guide
– The Radiant Whole Life Carbon Study
– Whole Life Carbon of PV Installations
– CIBSE TM 65 : Embodied carbon in building services
– Renewable Natural Gas : What Role Will It Play in Decarbonization in B.C.?
– World Green Building Council : Beyond Buildings
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Impact Fund
Running on an annual basis, our Impact Fund supports thought leadership and transformational initiatives around sustainability and digital innovation, and encourages collaboration with external partners.
introba.com/impact-fund
Net Zero Carbon Buildings Commitment
We are founding signatories of the World Green Building Council (WorldGBC)’s Net Zero Carbon Buildings Commitment. Introba is Net Zero Carbon for Scopes 1 and 2.
MEP 2040 Challenge
We are signatories of the Carbon Leadership Forum’s MEP 2040 Commitment to advocate for and achieve net zero carbon in our projects: operational carbon by 2030 and embodied carbon by 2040.
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ESG
We published our first annual corporate social & environmental responsibility report in 2017.
We are now leading the development of the ESG program of our parent company, Sidara. This will provide a platform to share our ongoing performance, alongside other companies within Sidara.
introba.com/esg
CONNECTED TO SUCCESS
Introba is part of a global alliance whose members are consulting and engineering firms with unique and complementary specializations, serving the buildings, transportation, and water sectors.
Together we provide our clients with the resources and reach of a truly global company and the innovative thinking and deep focus of a best-in-class specialty firm.
Our alliance enables us to tailor and scale our solutions to our client’s specific needs. Through technical excellence, local knowledge, and future insight we empower positive change in our communities and for our planet.
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Canada
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Toronto
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Australia
Brisbane
Melbourne
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United Kingdom
London
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Ireland
Dublin
Serbia
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