Blackwell Information

Founded by Walter Blackwell in 1987, Blackwell is now a company with 60 employees in three offices: Toronto, Waterloo, and Halifax. Blackwell provides structural engineering services to architects, developers, and building owners on projects totalling over $750 million of construction value annually. Under the leadership of our CEO, Brooke Guzar, our Principals and Senior Associates lead our expert teams, ensuring we have the capacity to carry out a wide range of projects. Our portfolio contains thirty years of work in the new construction of university facilities, offices, retail buildings, medical centres, recreational and visitor centres, schools, libraries and religious institutions, custom homes for private owners, bridges, multi-residential and industrial buildings, as well as in additions and alterations to existing structures, including those with designated heritage status. We’ve been fortunate to work on several distinguished projects that have attracted critical and industry acclaim. Projects we’ve contributed services to have received the Governor General’s award and Ontario Association of Architects award for architecture. Many of our award-winning projects have garnered attention for their innovative use of engineered wood, steel, and concrete systems, and we have been recognized on projects notable for their sustainable design. As a signatory to the Structural Engineering Institute’s SE2050 initiative, we are committed to tracking, reporting, and ultimately reducing the embodied carbon in the structural systems of all our projects, with the ultimate end of achieving net zero structures by 2050. Our mission is beauty through efficient structure.