In many cases, the company has even helped their clients to acquire provincial or federal grant funding available for companies seeking to reduce their energy consumption. In the last two years, Ian estimates they have helped clients in Western Canada earn more than $35 million in grant money. According to Ian, that kind of “start-to-finish engineering design and consulting” is a rarity in their industry. He believes Polar Engineering is “one of, if not the only industrial refrigeration engineering firms that works with clients all the way from beginning to end.” “We work with them to apply for grants at the beginning, then we complete the detailed design, and then we stay on board all the way through to the commissioning phase at the end to make sure everything works properly,” he explains. “We have a lot of expertise in all those different project stages. “The whole process – from helping clients acquire grant funding to making sure everything’s working properly after the fact – can take anywhere from one-to-four years,” adds Tyler Parkin, project engineer. “In that time, we tend to form really strong relationships with our clients.” Ian credits the strength of those client relationships to the company’s commitment to understanding clients and responding to their unique needs. He says their motto is “we listen first and we engineer second.” “It’s always our goal to make sure that we’re hearing what our clients’ needs are, and then we’re delivering based on those needs,” Ian says. “We’re not going in with a preconceived idea about MAY 2025
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