June 3, 2010

Rather than explaining to you how incredible and exciting the culture at ecosystem is, we decided to show you:

This video offers you a glimpse of the Ecosystem culture that is always present whether you’re in the office or at a client-site.

See the video

November 26, 2009

De la Capitale School Board and Ecosystem were the recipients of the Energia Award, given by the “Association québécoise pour la maîtrise de l’énergie” (AQME) in the category “Existing building – institutional sector”.

This award, received on November 18 at the 20th edition of the Energia Awards, rewards excellence and innovation in energy efficiency.

This $4.2 million project allowed 15 buildings to reduce their energy bills, to modernize their equipments and to reduce their Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions. The measures were mainly chosen to use different energy sources, to re-use energy, to reduce the use of fossil energy and to improve the control of energy management and the maintenance needs.

The project generates annual savings of $519,521. Energy consumption was reduced by 28,269 GJ and GHG emissions were reduced by 2,017 tonnes.

September 25, 2009

Along with saving energy, Ecosystem projects reduce building emissions. While that makes our customers leaders in preserving the environment, we have to do more if we are going to win the battle against Climate Change.

Until now, the Kyoto agreement guided this fight, however, in December 2009, the World Conference on Climate Change will take place in Copenhagen. Once again, the countries of the world will come together to agree on an action plan for reducing Greenhouse Gas emissions.

Time For Climate Justice is a campaign created for anyone who wants to make a difference and influence decision-makers to commit to taking real action at Copenhagen ‘09.

September 17, 2009

Ecosystem will participate to the 29th Annual Conference of the Canadian Healthcare Engineering Society (CHES). The conference is being held in St. John's, Newfoundland.

You can meet our Ontario team at booth 65. We will highlight the benefits of implementing an energy retrofit project with Ecosystem and demonstrate some of our achievements with Canadian hospitals.

CHES exists to help its members manage their environments – an essential element in efficient and effective health care delivery.

May 8, 2009

The Hotel-Dieu de Roberval hospital is benefiting from an innovative project by Ecosystem; the hospital has completed a project that helps reduce pollution, reuse renewable energy sources as well as create employment opportunities for people living in the area.

At the core of the project’s success is a biomass boiler producing steam for heating, sterilization and a laundry facility. This boiler burns bark, sawdust, wood chips, and wood scrap collected in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean forest region. Locally designed and manufactured in Quebec, its technological advantage permits it to burn slightly humid material (versus completely dry tree shavings), some of which is still bunched with soil, which makes it even easier to utilize fuel at a very cost-effective rate.

The ecological value of the specialized biomass technology implemented by Ecosystem surpasses other similar equipment by adding another aspect to its environmentally friendly attributes: it reduces airborne particle pollution by means of completely burning the total volume of biomass fed into it.

The project also includes a new natural gas-fuelled boiler that will complete the steam production and provide a better modulation range.

A detailed overview of the Ecosystem project reveals that the Hotel-Dieu de Roberval hospital has reduced its energy bills by $728,000 annually. By year’s end the hospital will have reduced Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 4,324 tons per year, the equivalent of removing 1,300 vehicles from the road.

Ecosystem’s innovative solution has sparked major interest at the Health and Social Services Ministry which has awarded the hospital a $670,000 grant to fund the project.