Commercial HVAC Response Time: Why Proximity Isn’t Convenience — It’s Risk Management If you or your tenant ever called or searched “HVAC near me” in the middle of a system failure, it wasn’t to see which HVAC company had the closest logo. It was to know — without a doubt — that someone was on their way to fix it. Because when a commercial building’s HVAC goes down in Toronto or the GTA, there is nothing “average” about the problems that can arise in hours: Tenant complaints Safety hazards...

One of the most popular (and expensive) choices for business buildings in Toronto and the GTA is to put off HVAC repair. At first sight, this easy "savings" would not appear like a bad choice. In practice, it leads to a slow rise in costs over time, such as greater running costs, unexpected downtime, unhappy tenants, and the early breakdown of important building systems. We wanted to talk about the real costs of putting off HVAC maintenance, give examples of when putting off maintenance might...

Lifecycle planning, budgeting and forecasting 3–7 year CAPEX cycles Running a commercial property in Toronto can sometimes feel like managing two opposing realities: HVAC systems are mission-critical to protect tenants and operations. HVAC equipment is expensive to replace. No property manager wants to deal with an emergency rooftop unit failure in the middle of summer. Renting temporary cooling towers is stressful and expensive. Nobody wants to get blindsided by a $40,000–$100,000...