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December 2009 – GORD Associates Consulting is proud to contribute to the success of the Centre de Développement des Composites du Québec in winning a $2.1 million grant

The NSERC grants this subsidy to the Centre de Développement des Composites du Québec ( CDCQ), one of two College Centre for the Transfer of Technologies affiliated to St - Jérôme's College, to move forward with a private-public research project to treat and reuse composites manufacturing solid wastes. This project was selected by NSERC within its College and Community Innovation Program framework and thus confirms the CDCQ’s innovative vision for sustainable development in the composites industry.

GORD Associates Consulting’s Strategy & performance group played a key role in this project’s selection as it was responsible for justifying the project, finding interested industrial partners, structuring the collaboration model, structuring the project management plan, writing the letter of intent and formal full application.

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October 2009 – GORD Associates Consulting to act as project manager for a construction project in the tar sands of Alberta for a world-class mining systems provider.

August 2009 – GORD Associates Consulting appointed by a world-class equipment manufacturer to act as project manager for an important project in British Columbia.

September 2009 – GORD Associates Consulting’s Engineering group to design a "green" veterinary hospital

GAC has been retained for the development of a « green » building to shelter a veterinary hospital. The notion of sustainable development in building relates to the usage of technologies enabling for a better respect of the environment and ecology in its construction and operation. For this project, GAC will design all electromechanical systems for the building and will also act as project manager for the construction and for obtaining the necessary LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification which, in Canada, is necessary for a building to be considered as "green".

The LEED Green Building Rating System, developed by the US Green Building Council, provides a suite of standards for environmentally sustainable construction. To obtain one of the four LEED levels (certified, silver, gold or platinum), a green building must comply with energy efficiency standards, water consumption efficiency standards, heating efficiency standards, must use locally produced construction supplies and must reuse its materials surplus.

July 2009 – L’Institut du Transport Avancé du Québec selects GORD Associates Consulting’s Strategy & performance group to come up with a technological incubator model and realize an opportunity study.

June 2009 – Within the framework of the MDEIE’s “Mesure d’appui à la productivité”, a manufacturing company chooses GORD Associates Consulting Strategy & performance group to support it with implementing ISO 14001.

April 2009 – GORD Associates Consulting’s Strategy & performance group chosen by an aerospace company to advise with its continuous improvement plan

GORD Associates Consulting was recently selected to realize an in-depth organizational performance analysis for a manufacturing company of the aerospace sector. The objective of the initiative is to take advantage of the economic slowdown which currently impacts the industry to heighten the operational performance of the company. The project consists, at first, in revising and reengineering the supply chain, the production and the client services business processes. At term, the company will be more competitive and advantageously positioned once the economy will have recovered.

March 2009 – A major real-estate management company selects GORD Associates Consulting’s Engineering group for a technical professional opinion during a long term lease negotiation.

February 2009 – GORD Associates Consulting’s Strategy & performance group to support the Centre National du Transport Avancé (CNTA) in its strategic planning process. The project goals are to identify the CNTA’s positioning and produce the corresponding action plan.

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February 2009 – GORD Associates Consulting to act as program manager for Aero Montréal’s Supply Chain Initiative

GAC’s services have been retained to manage Aero Montréal’s seven projects for improving the Québec aerospace supply chain. The ultimate goal is to enhance the competitiveness of Québec aerospace subcontractors by planning and executing a concerted action plan to solve major issues related to subcontracting.

Aéro Montréal, the secretariat of Greater Montréal’s aerospace cluster, is an industry-driven organization that brings together all stakeholders of Québec’s aerospace industry that contribute to the development of this strategic sector including, companies, educational and research institutions, the unions and the associations. Its mission is to foster and maintain an environment conducive to increased productivity and accelerated growth for the industry.

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January 2009 – A College Centre for the Transfer of Technologies retains GORD Associates Consulting’s Strategy & performance group to propose and implement a private-public research partnership for NSERC's College and Community Innovation Program. The program's goal is to increase innovation at the regional level by enabling Canadian colleges to increase their capacity to work with local companies and other research institutions.

December 2008 – A manufacturing company choses GORD Associates Consulting’s Engineering group to realize a technical feasibility study and find solutions for replacing production compression systems.

November 2008 – GORD Associates Consulting’s Engineering group selected by Pastoslan Inc., a building management company, to realize energy improvement audits for its buildings.

October 2008 – GORD Associates Consulting’s Engineering group retained by a major building management company, to realize a feasibility study for replacing HVAC systems in one of its offices tower.

October 2008 – Musilab, the CCTT (College Centre for the Transfer of Technologies) affiliated to the Drummondville CEGEP, selects GORD Associates Consulting’s Strategy & performance group to establish a research development and partnership strategy and prepare a grant demand to the Canada Foundation for Innovation.

Septembre 2008 – GORD Associates Consulting’s Engineering group selected to improve performance and assure norms compliance of HVAC systems in a major industrial complex.

September 2008 – GORD Associates Consulting’s Engineering group retained to diagnose and recommend HVAC systems modifications for norms compliance in a religious building reconversion project.

June 2008 – A major contractor chooses GORD Associates Consulting’s Engineering group to accompany him in improving energy efficiency for its building renovation and new construction projects.

May 2008 – GORD Associates Consulting’s Strategy & performance group chosen to realize a diagnosis and implement a performance improvement action plan for a food-processing plant.

May 2008 – GORD Associates Consulting’s Engineering group retained by the Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital Foundation to lead the design and implementation of mechanical and electrical systems in its 4th floor addition project to the Maisonneuve-Rosemont Polyclinic.

April 2008 – GORD Associates Consulting retained to manage feasibility study for $1B European environmental project

GAC has been retained to manage the feasibility study for implementing carbon capture and storage in an existing coal power plant.

With many technical issues to be resolved and a short schedule, GAC was called upon to assist in expediting the first phases of the study for implementing this technology which could come on-line as early as 2015.

March 2008 – GORD Associates Consulting is qualified by the MDEIE to support Quebec’s manufacturing companies in their competitiveness improvement projects

Following the announcement of its action  plan to support the Québec manufacturing sector, the Ministère du Développement Économique de l'Innovation et de l'Exportation qualifies GORD Associates Consulting as Authorized professional supplier.

The Government will put $51 million of funding (over 5 years) available to Quebec’s manufacturing companies to improve their competitiveness. The eligible companies will then be able to take advantage of a personalized accompaniment by authorized suppliers, i.e., by expert resources qualified by the Ministry. These resources will bring their support for the implementation of an action plan aimed at strengthening the productivity and the competitiveness of the company.

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March 2008 – GORD Associates Consulting’s Engineering group to design an automated capping machine for a manufacturer of aluminum products.

February 2008 – Industry Canada And Goup CTT retain GORD Associates Consulting’s Strategy & performance group to realize a benchmarking and positioning analysis of Canadian companies opportunities in the U.S. transportation equipment industry (MOBILTECH).

August 2007 – A biotechnology firm retains GORD Associates Consulting’s Engineering group to realize a technical analysis for optimizing its labs HVAC systems performance and costs.

December 2007 – GORD Associates Consuting’s Engineering group leads a technical improvement study for a cleantech company’s products.

November 2007 – A major Montreal rehabilitation institute chooses GORD Associates Consulting’s Strategy & performance group to realize a process reengineering project for its rehabilitation technologies department.

October 2007 – Hydro-Québec awards the " Partnering professional" certification to GORD Associates Consulting

Within the framework of its "Energy Wise - Empower Program", Hydro-Québec grants the partnering professional certification in energy efficiency to GORD Associates Consulting.

This certification thus authorizes GORD Associates Consulting to request financial assistance from Hydro-Québec on behalf of its clients. These subsidies can help in carrying out projects involving implementation of electricity-saving measures in a building (new or existing), for processes and industrial systems.

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October 2007 – GORD Associates Consulting’s Strategy & performance group retained by an environmental technologies company for the development of a growth strategy and a business plan for a financing second round.

July 2007 – GORD Associates Consulting’s Strategy & performance group chosen by the Ministère du Développement Économique, de l'Innovation et de l'Exportation for mapping manufacturing capabilities of companies involved in the « créneau d'excellence ACCORD des Fournisseurs et équipementiers pour véhicules commerciaux, véhicules spéciaux et produits récréatifs » in the Centre-du-Québec region

This project is the first to be realized from the cluster's strategic plan. The realization of the capacity mapping will allow a clearer picture of the regional production system as well as the mapping of the cluster’s supply chain. The results of this investigation will also foster extensive networking amongst the cluster and potentially create integrators capable of supporting the development of the industry.

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June 2007 – Revue Industrie et Commerce : Smartsoil Energy – An intelligent solution for maximizing landfill energy production

Although, extracting methane from landfills is not a new phenomenon, it has always been a process that used to produce mediocre and uneven results. But now, Smartsoil Energy Inc has developed a system that greatly improves this process and the fundamental principle of their SmartSoil-Biogas System relies on its capacity to optimize all environmental parameters that have influence on the generation of landfill gas from biomass. Smartsoil’s innovative solution has been developed with the input of a value added supplier network that includes, amongst others, GORD Associates Consulting.

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May 2007 – GORD Associates Consulting’s Strategy & performance group appointed by the Communauté Métropolitaine de Montréal to realize a benchmarking study and a branding strategy for their clusters development strategy.

March 2007 – GORD Associates Consulting’s Engineering group hired by Smartsoil Energy to containerize an innovative landfill-gas-to-energy process for the firm’s projects in Quebec and Mexico. Construction and project management will be GAC’s responsibilities.