break into the market with hospitals. And that’s where we really got our foot in the door, with emergency rooms and medical centres.” The company’s footprint has grown steadily in the years since. Today, Integral Air operates with eight employees running four units – at that size, Chad says they have the ability to remain highly selective about whom they work with and to maintain the exacting standards that set them apart. Their client roster includes Alberta Health Services, the City of Calgary, the Department of Defense, and a range of large mechanical contractors. The City of Calgary alone accounts for 640 buildings under their care over a five-year contract – a volume of work that keeps the team consistently at capacity. According to Chad, Integral Air is able to win those contracts, and then hold to them, partly due to their utilization of advanced technology. Integral Air uses a custom-adapted robotic system that travels through ductwork, capturing 4K video and allowing operators to manage everything from the ground. That technology improves safety by eliminating the need to work from heights while also providing verifiable proof that the work was done to a high standard. “There’s no other way of doing it where at the end you can honestly tell the client that their whole system is entirely clean,” Chad says. “Doing it this way, not only can we honestly tell the client that that their system is clean, but we can show them that is.” Complementing the robotics, Integral Air also deploys dry ice blasting technology – another THE CONSTRUCTION SOURCE CANADA
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