Introba Firm Overview Brochure

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, Australia, and Serbia.

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:

– MEP Engineering

– Baggage Automation

– Climate & Sustainability

– Design Analytics

– Digital Advisory

– Fire Engineering

– Lighting Design

– Medical Equipment Planning

– 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

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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.

Regenerative mindset

Living systems are self-sustaining.

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We are committed to protecting and enhancing the natural environment through our work and as a business.

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Expertise Assembled

Right Team, Right Place, Right Time

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.

Buildings

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.

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– Architectural Lighting & Daylight Design

– Baggage Handling

– District Energy and Smart Grids

– Fire Engineering

– IT and Audio Visual Consulting

– Medical Equipment Planning

– Net Zero Carbon

– Renewable Energy

– Security & Resilience

– Systems Commissioning

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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.

– Policy and Planning

– Masterplan Visioning

– Climate & Sustainability

– Corporate ESG Strategy

– Circular Economy

– Sustainability Certification & Assurance

– Building Health & Wellness

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.

– 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

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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

Government

– Justice – Civic – Federal Healthcare

– Defense

– Workspace

– Public Safety – Mission Critical

– Law Enforcement

– Policy & Code Advisory

Healthcare

– Clinics

– Hospitals

– Medical Offices

– Medical Research

– Surgery Centers

– Cancer Centers

– Care Facilities

Mobility – Aviation – Rail & Transit

– Highway Facilities

– Maritime

– Port Facilities

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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.

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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.

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1. Mercury Way Medical Office Building – Santa Rosa, CA, USA

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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.

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2. Pitzer College Robert Redford Conservancy – Claremont, CA, USA

3. UC Berkeley Haas School of Business Connie & Kevin Chou Hall – Berkeley, CA, USA

4. University of Melbourne Arts West – Melbourne, VIC, Australia

5. Hackbridge Primary School – London, UK

6. Bishop O’Dowd High School Center for Environmental Studies – Oakland, CA, USA

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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.

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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 costeffective 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.

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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 airport-wide 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.

Decarbonisation

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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.

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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.

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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, Dar Group. This will provide a platform to share our ongoing performance, alongside other companies within Dar Group.

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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.

INTROBA OFFICE LOCATIONS:

Canada

Calgary

Edmonton

Kelowna

Toronto

Vancouver

Victoria

Australia

Brisbane

Melbourne

Sydney

United

Kingdom

London

Oxford

Serbia

Belgrade

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United States

Atlanta

Austin

Chicago

Dallas

Denver

Houston

Indianapolis

Kansas City

Los Angeles

Miami

New Haven

New York

Oakland

San Diego

Seattle

St. Louis

Washington

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