About Purpose Building

A team of Canadian building performance experts created Purpose in 2018 as an employee-owned company to accelerate real estate to planet-positive performance. The team has been leading sustainability initiatives for over 30 years. Our clients count on us to deliver organisational strategies and building-level solutions for new development, existing buildings and portfolios in all classes of real estate assets.

With staff in Ontario, BC, Alberta and Quebec, Purpose serves clients across North America, including companies, institutions, governments and industry associations.

Our Charter

Mission

Purpose Building is an employee-owned company established to accelerate new and existing real estate to planet-positive pathways.

We do this by creating:

  • Inspiring Careers for a diverse team aligned by a drive to excel at delivering healthy, circular, low-carbon buildings and communities.

  • Leading-edge Solutions by combining technical excellence with a passion for solving wicked problems.

  • Confident Teams willing and able to deliver outcomes well beyond what they thought possible.

Core Values

Our team members behave in ways that lead to the following outcomes:

  • Team Success - enable great lives for each other by continually improving the team's capabilities and processes.

  • Collaboration Excellence - sustain highly effective knowledgebuilding, partnerships and communication.

  • Social Responsibility - contribute to the success of the communities we live and work in.

  • Honesty and Humility - we match words and actions, seek different perspectives, share credit, and own our errors.

Method

We give project teams the confidence to go farther faster towards a better future by:

  • Focusing on achieving optimal performance through transformational shifts rather than incremental improvement.

  • Distilling problems to the core issues that need to be solved.

  • Integrating the full team's deep knowledge with state-of-the-art tools to optimize solutions for each client's specific needs.

Clients

To have the most impact, we want to work with clients who are:

  • Real asset developers, owners, managers, constructors, designers and/or industry partners

  • Thought leaders committed to triple-bottom-line solutions, and

  • Positive corporate citizens

Envisioned Future

Success means achieving the following conditions:

  • Employees working at Purpose are fulfilled as professionals and citizens.

  • Clients seek us out because our involvement leads to outstanding results.

  • Communities want Purpose to be working on their projects.

  • Partners see that Purpose projects have the best outcomes.

Indigenous Reconciliation Commitment

Purpose is committed to working for a future that brings a halt to colonial attitudes and is sustainable for all. We aim to support this by embedding collaboration, respect, and equity into our work.

Our full Commitment document can be found here .

Get in touch.

393 University Ave, Suite 1702
Toronto ON
M5G 1E6