Green Building Services is merging with Canadian consulting and engineering firm RWDI.  Financial terms of the merger were not released, but GBS staff and services offered are expected to stay relatively the same.

“We are still Portland-based,” said Green Building Services Associate Regional Manager Elaine Aye. “This is going to provide us with new and exciting opportunities for growth.”

Aye and business partner Richard Manning plan to remain with the company. The merger has been in the works for more than a year.

She said the biggest change that GBS clients will notice is an expansion in services the company is able to provide, Aye said.

“When you are a 22-person firm, you can only do so much,” she said. “When you become part of a 400-person firm, there is a depth and breadth that you have that you didn’t before.”

RWDI will now be able to rely on climatologists to provide risk assessment of a client’s property or potential new property. The Canadian firm also comes with international experience. It has worked on projects such as the 58-story Comcast Center in Philadelphia, the 2,716-foot-tall Burj Khalifa tower in Dubai and the Grand Canyon Skywalk in Arizona.

Green Building Services adds to RWDI’s West Coast business presence.

“What was really sweet for us (is) they provide a lot of things,” Aye said. “They do acoustics. They do additional environmental services. They do daylight modeling. Our complement is on the back side. We can help guide clients through the long term. It’s a nice marriage of services.”

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