Stuart is a professional mechanical engineer with a master’s degree in building science and holds certification as a Passive House Designer both internationally and in North America. He is a founder of Passive Buildings Canada, a past voting member of the ASHRAE 227 Passive Building Standard Committee, and sits on the Passive House Institute US’s technical committee. Stuart is an accomplished technical designer and an experienced contributor to inter-disciplinary groups in a global setting, having consulted on over 750 high performance building projects across Canada, including many first production examples of Net Zero Energy and Passive House typology.
Stuart is the Principal of ReNü Engineering Inc., an eight member professional engineering firm with offices in Edmonton and Yellowknife, licensed to practice in Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, the Yukon Territory, the Northwest Territories, Ontario, and Nova Scotia. ReNu’s team focuses on the delivery of new buildings and retrofit of existing ones to high performance standards in cold climate North America using a technical approach that blends the disciplines of mechanical engineering and architectural science, the two disciplines responsible for most energy consumption in buildings. ReNü believes that the success of high performance building projects lies in a truly integrated assessment and design process; the right design and construction players must communicate effectively from beginning to end. Stuart is also a managing partner with Butterwick Projects, a construction management firm focused on deep energy retrofits. Stuart acted as the Senior Sustainability Engineer, Current Planning, for the City of Edmonton from 2013-2015, helping to streamline the permitting of solar and geothermal systems in the City.
