Data tools to help city-shapers make pro-climate decisions with confidence

We build software tools that promote the market adoption of high performance products and best practices in energy management.

our products

We help our partners and clients to realize their visions for software tools that regenerate the urban environment.

about us

Products

  • GRID

    GRID is North America’s premier building decarbonization tool, transforming building energy data into actionable decarbonization insights. GRID enables private sector clients to measure their current performance and future-proof their buildings, while also supporting public sector clients in implementing carbon reporting and benchmarking regulations for buildings in their jurisdictions.

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  • Virtual Audits and Decarbonization Planning

    The Virtual Decarbonization Planning Suite enables rapid decarbonization planning at a large scale. Our advanced technology and data-driven insights revolutionize early planning for building portfolios, ensuring efficient and impactful decarbonization strategies.

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  • Affordable Housing Navigator

    The Affordable Housing Navigator for New Construction helps housing development managers to quickly determine the financial feasibility of a development project by integrating all the Canadian funding requirements into one unique comprehensive tool.

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  • Virtual Energy Score for Homes

    The Virtual Home Energy Score allows homeowners and municipalities to understand the Net-Zero-readiness of their residential buildings. The Virtual Home Energy Score provides detailed insights for ground-oriented homes (single-family homes, duplexes/small multiplexes) as well as large-scale insights for communities.

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About Us

Three core innovations set us apart.

FASTER, CHEAPER, SCALABLE | ACCURATE DATA ON A BIG SCALE | SCENARIO PLANNING TOOLS

Building operations account for more than 25% of the world’s total carbon emissions, with construction and related activities contributing much more.

To keep the planet livable, a growing coalition of countries, cities, businesses, and other institutions are pledging to get to net zero emissions. Along the way, more than 140 countries, 9,000 companies, 1000 cities, 1000 educational institutions, and 600 financial institutions have committed to halve emissions by 2030. 

That’s the good news.  

The core challenge that OPEN seeks to address is that – to translate these commitments into effective action – we need to transform the pace and effectiveness of building retrofit action. And this means a transformation in how we get to smart, strategic retrofit plans at a building, portfolio, regional, or global level.  

Our clients – policy makers, investors, and property owners with the power to shift real estate markets – see that the traditional approaches to collecting, analyzing, and acting upon building and building performance data are far too slow, costly, and demanding upon the sector’s scarce technical resources.  We collectively don’t have the years, billions, or technical experts to meet the climate imperative via the traditional means.  

At OPEN, we understand that – while technologies exist to positively transform our built environment – adoption requires faster diagnosis, modelling, and action planning across the built environment.  For this reason, we have invested our efforts in products that enable regulatory and capital decisions based upon: 

  • Real Data – through fast and effective building attribute and performance data ingestion); and 
  • Real Insights – through surrogate-model driven analysis at the building, portfolio, and landscape levels.  

Our team has decades of experience in green building innovation, software development, project management, and business development. With executive and management level experience in policy-making, real estate development, property management, architecture, energy modelling, product management, and business management, we have a holistic understanding of the building sector and the leverage points to create positive change.

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Team

Our team has decades of experience in green building innovation, software development, and business development.

With executive and management level experience in policy-making, real estate development, property management, architecture, energy modelling, product management, and business management, we have a holistic understanding of the building sector and the leverage points to create positive change.

OPEN Technologies grew out of the OPEN Green Building Society, a non-profit organization that has been developing open source software tools for the green building space since 2013. Today, OPEN Technologies and OPEN Green Building Society are affiliated organizations with a shared goal: to use data to shape a regenerative future for our cities.

Andrew Shopland

Software Developer

Charlotte Drache-Lambert

Director of Programs and Customer Engagement

Christian Cianfrone

Co-founder and Chief Decarbonization Officer

Daniel Eden

GRID Product Manager

Dave Ramslie

Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer

Donovan Woollard

Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer

Eesmyal Santos-Brault

Co-founder, OPEN
CEO, Quantified Citizen

Gaurav Vijayvargia

Senior Software Developer - Custom Projects

Gordon

Floor Manager

Guillaume Hammadi

Senior Software Developer

Johanna Fulda

Senior Software Developer

Justin Belanger

Software Developer

Justine Wiklo

Business Analyst

M’Beth Schoenfeld

Data Scientist

Maia Smith

UX Designer

Ryan McCuaig

Senior Advisor, Technology

Careers

When you join OPEN, you become part of a community dedicated to addressing the energy performance of buildings through technology. Our team includes professional engineers and architects, business development professionals, and software developers.

As an early hire at a growing startup, you can expect to gain broad experience and exposure to how OPEN engages with industry and government stakeholders on our quest to create industry-disrupting products. We seek team members that are aligned with us on mission, craft, and culture. We offer flexible hours, remote working options, and access to our transit accessible office in the heart of Gastown.

Purpose Driven Work with a Tangible Positive Impact

Prioritize Skills Development

Collaborative & Creative Team Culture

Available roles

You can also reach out to info@opentech.eco and tell us about the work you´re doing, and why you wish to connect. Be sure to include your LinkedIn page.