ABOUT US

Gordon Shymko has over 24 years of experience in advanced building design and energy and sustainability engineering. He has provided consulting service for new and renovation projects from the conceptual planning stages down to the detailed design level, and is considered one of North America’s foremost authorities in his field. Notable achievements include design facilitation and energy/sustainability engineering for two of the three Canadian entries in the 2002 International Green Building Challenge, as well as for the majority of successful C-2000 projects. His portfolio of work represents several billion dollars in construction value. In addition, Gord serves on numerous committees in the US and Canada.

PHILOSOPHY

Our objective at GF Shymko & Associates is well-designed, highly efficient, cost-effective and sustainable buildings. Our basis is technical, but our focus is on design — we believe that money is better spent on careful design than on the latest technological trend. Our philosophy is that technology should support the fundamental design process, not lead it.

Conventional buildings are the result of design processes which are usually less than ideal. Each design discipline tends to work strictly within its own realm, seeking design solutions according to its own paradigm. The pursuit of higher building performance then takes the form of an expensive layering of technological fixes which really do not address performance issues at the fundamental level.

GF Shymko & Associates has the broad technical foundation in all disciplines necessary to understand how building systems work together and how to integrate the pieces into an optimized whole building. We provide two services to the design team: technical expertise in energy and environmental issues, and facilitation of better design integration between all the disciplines. The common term for this approach is Integrated Design Process, or IDP.