This marks the beginning of an exciting new chapter for M&R Engineering.

Halifax, January 17 ‒ BPA an engineering firm headquartered in Montreal and specializing in institutional, commercial, multi-residential, and industrial buildings, as well as sustainability, and M&R Engineering, a mechanical and electrical consulting engineering firm with a 50-year history and strong reputation in Atlantic Canada, announced today that they are joining forces.

This strategic partnership places a strong emphasis on nurturing enduring relationships with loyal, local clients, by expanding the range and depth of services provided, while simultaneously positioning both companies for success in wider markets and enabling nationwide service delivery.

“By integrating M&R and its 55 employees into the BPA team, we aim to bolster our footprint in Eastern Canada by leveraging their strong local presence, thereby positioning ourselves to provide services across Atlantic Canada,” says Patrick St‑Onge, Executive Vice-President at BPA.

M&R's wealth of expertise strengthens BPA’s position as a leader in building engineering. "This partnership perfectly aligns with our strategic goals of team expansion and ongoing enhancement of our expertise, enabling us to consistently deliver top-tier services to clients nationwide,” says Dominic Latour, CEO of BPA. M&R’s extensive mechanical and electrical experience consolidates our position as a leader in the field of building decarbonization, helping to build a sustainable future," concludes Mr. Latour.

United by shared values of integrity, collaboration, and excellence, BPA and M&R are driven by a client-centric approach to projects. This strategic move is anticipated to bolster both companies' capabilities, allowing them to maintain their commitment to quality service while broadening their impact and presence in the industry.

“M&R and BPA have collaborated to support each other on projects in Atlantic Canada and across the country. Through our work together, we have found strongly shared values toward pleasing our clients, respecting our staff and providing environmental leadership through high-quality engineering. By joining BPA now, M&R strengthens its position in the Atlantic Canadian market, gains access to expertise and resources and increases our scale,” says Denis Morris, Senior Partner at M&R. “This merger with BPA provides our team with more career development, national project opportunities and positions us to develop a new generation of leaders to continue to improve our consulting services. This is a meaningful step toward formalizing a partnership with experienced experts so that we can deliver enhanced, more comprehensive services in Atlantic Canada,” he adds. “The M&R name is well recognized, respected, and trusted. We aim to honour the legacy and history of the company, and to reflect the combination of our strengths, by transitioning to a branding strategy that identifies M&R as a member of BPA in the short-term,” he concludes.

“We have collaborated on several projects with BPA in the past and this new relationship gives us the capacity to pursue larger projects as a strong, tightly knit team. It allows us to provide niche services that we currently do not offer to our local clients and to give our established clients the confidence we have the capacity to service their projects to the same level we always have,” explains Mike Myatt, Partner at M&R.

All employees, including senior leaders of M&R and BPA will remain employed with BPA. Details of the transaction are confidential.

This is BPA’s fourth transaction following an initial investment by CDPQ in 2022 to support the company’s pan-Canadian strategic development plan and accelerate its growth.

ABOUT BPA

BPA is an engineering firm specialized in buildings for the institutional, commercial, multi-residential and industrial markets. Employees across Canada provide expertise in mechanical, electrical, and structural engineering, sustainable development, energy efficiency, building science, telecommunications, security, building automation, acoustics, food services and commissioning. To find out more about BPA, visit bpa.ca.

ABOUT M&R ENGINEERING

M&R Engineering provides consulting in the disciplines of mechanical and electrical engineering. For 60 years, they have supplied mechanical and electrical systems design and supervisory services, sustainability consulting, energy auditing, commissioning, and energy modelling. M&R has offices in Halifax and Sydney, Nova Scotia. To find out more about M&R, visit mreng.ca.

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Aaron Smith spoke at the recent Passive Building’s Canada Boots on the Ground event in Dartmouth. His topic was the deep energy retrofit of his 100 year old home where he has been able to achieve over 70% energy savings and over 50% greenhouse gas emissions savings. A video of the event is available here.

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M&R Engineering Ltd. were honored to be awarded the First Place ASHRAE Society Technology Award in the New Educational Facilities Category for the Dalhousie IDEA and Design Buildings. Thank you to Dalhousie University and their Energy Team for the supporting the project.

The project has achieved over 70% savings compared to average educational buildings with 15% of energy use coming from a rooftop Solar PV array. More information on the project can be found on our Project Profile here.

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M&R Engineering were happy to work on the project that brought a new MRI to the IWK Children’s Hospital in Halifax. See a short video of the installation here.

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We’ve been happy to work on the design of new facilities at Dalhousie University over the past 3 years. The IDEA project is helping to revitalize Sexton campus. See a video about the project here.

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M&R Engineering has been happy to be part of the Canadian Coast Guard College Mechanical Revitalization Project which will replace the Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) and Sprinkler systems at the 37 year old campus. Our new HVAC system design has heat pumps that use seawater as a source of heat in the winter and a place to reject heat in the summer.

This project is projected to reduce energy use on the campus by 49% while cutting energy costs by 25%. The Campus has already been able to reduce carbon emissions by 39% since 2005 and this project will help contribute to an emission reduction target of 80% by 2050.

Along with reductions in energy use, this project will increase air quality by providing new ventilation systems and improve thermal comfort by adding air-conditioning to the 385,000 sq. ft campus.

The main project $53.6m contract was awarded to Joneljim Concrete Construction (1994) last week.

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The Partners of M&R Engineering are pleased to announce that Donnie Arsenault, P. Eng. has joined the firm as a Senior Mechanical Engineering and Project Manager.  Donnie will be operating out of Sydney, NS allowing M&R Engineering to offer a greater local presence to support projects in Cape Breton.

 Donnie has 20 years of experience in mechanical systems design and project management in the commercial, institutional, industrial sectors with emphasis on sustainability and energy efficiency.

Donnie can be reached at 902-317-6447. 

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We have been happy to be part of the design team for Halifax Grammar School's major addition.  A time lapse video of it construction progress has been created.  Click on the image below to see the progress.

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The Aberdeen Hospital's new Emergency Department will be opening on October 24th.  We have been happy to be part of this project over the past 5 years.  This $32 million project includes a dedicated triage area, private treatment patient rooms, isolation rooms, a family quiet room, trauma rooms and ambulance bay.  In the next phase, the existing emergency department will be retrofitted into a new Pharmacy.

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Congratulations to Armour Group for receiving LEED Gold Certification for RBC Waterside Centre.  The use of Seawater for cooling, condensing gas boilers heating and photo-sensors for control of lights based on daylighting helped the building achieve 57% Energy Cost Savings.

M&R Engineering was responsible for base building electrical design, tenant fit-up mechanical design including HVAC, Plumbing and Fire Protection as well as tenant fit-up electrical design including Lighting, Power, Communications and Security.

For more information, view our profile.

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