EPA removes the R-410A installation deadline for existing equipment
A May 2026 final rule lets residential and light-commercial systems built before 2025 be installed until inventory runs out. The 2025 manufacturing cutoff still stands.
Building on campuses that stay open.
Labs, academic buildings and central plants, built on campuses that stay open around us. We plan around classes, exams and the people who use the buildings every day.
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Campuses
Universities and colleges rarely close for construction. Work happens next to lecture halls, in buildings with active research and in central plants that heat and cool the whole campus.
Many campuses are also working through ambitious plans to reduce energy use and emissions, which means more work on heating plants, heat pumps, electrical capacity and building controls.
What makes it hard
The challenges we plan for.
Every sector has its own risks. These are the ones we plan around from the first meeting.
Occupied buildings
Noisy work, shutdowns and deliveries are planned around the academic calendar, exams and research schedules.
Campus-wide utilities
A central plant or electrical outage can affect dozens of buildings. We plan those shutdowns with facilities staff, often outside term time.
Ageing infrastructure
Older buildings hold surprises. We survey existing conditions early so unknowns are found before they become delays.
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Our approach
Working with facilities teams, not around them.
Campus facilities teams know their buildings better than anyone. We involve them early, agree how and when shutdowns happen and keep them informed throughout.
Where work spans several buildings or utility systems, a single Enertec team across all trades means one plan for every outage, rather than separate contractors each needing their own.
Typical scope
- Academic and research buildings
- Central plant and utility upgrades
- Renovations in occupied buildings
- Life-safety system modernization
- Electrical capacity and distribution upgrades
- Heating and cooling plant conversions
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Canada’s 2025 National Model Codes are out
The 2025 editions of the National Building, Fire, Plumbing and Energy codes were released in December 2025. Provinces will now decide when and how to adopt them.
The refrigerant transition is here: what changed on January 1, 2025
New residential and light-commercial AC and heat pump systems using R-410A can no longer be manufactured or imported in the US. A2L refrigerants are taking over.
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Planning something technical? Bring us in early.
Tell us about the scope, location and schedule. We'll come back with how we'd approach it and which of our trades it needs.