Regenerative real estate · Western Canada
Building more
out of less.
Collegium Development Company applies living-systems principles to the design, financing and delivery of housing and mixed-use places in Alberta and British Columbia — places that cost less to build and run, and give more back to the people and towns around them.
Why we exist
The usual response isn’t working.
Approval timelines stretch, costs climb, labour is short and climate risk is showing up in insurance premiums. The common answer is to keep building the same product and bolt on a few solar panels and a handful of “affordable” units. We start from a different question: not “what’s the least we can do,” but “what’s the most this place can contribute?”
More
- Integrated places that support a healthy life
- Identity and beauty that build attachment
- Investment and talent attraction
- Adaptability to fit an uncertain future
- Economic, environmental and social returns together
Less
- Fragmented, disconnected people and places
- Features that add cost but not value
- Places people have no choice but to be
- Heavy infrastructure and operating burden
- Trading economics off against social and ecological value
How we deliver
1 + 1 + 1 = 9
Design, construction and finance are run as one integrated system rather than handed from one silo to the next.
No surprising bolt-ons
Every benefit and interaction, inside and beyond the site boundary, is part of the design and delivery process from day one — so value isn’t lost at hand-offs.
Bespoke places, not bespoke risk
Proven techniques and materials combined in new ways to reduce cost and construction risk while producing places with real character.
Technology-enabled delivery
A collegial, tech-enabled workflow — from building model to procurement — that cuts back-office cost, reduces risk and shortens construction timelines.
Our approach
Replace cascading risks with cascading benefits.
We use the principles that keep living systems stable, healthy and resilient as the model for building places. In practice that means two stacks that reinforce each other: what makes a place worth living in, and what makes it feasible to build and own.
When each layer strengthens the ones around it, the result is better places for residents and communities — and a more resilient investment.
Stewarding potential
Hardware, software, orgware
A great place is more than its buildings. We plan for all three layers from the outset.
The container
Streets, buildings and open space. The shape and character of the physical container quietly determine what tomorrow brings.
The rules
The policies, agreements and frameworks that guide how a place is used — a second, more flexible container.
The life of the place
Opportunities for people and groups to gather and act together. This is what makes a place thrive, and it can be designed for.
What we’re playing for
Returns of every kind
Each project is chosen to set a precedent: to show that a different path produces fewer problems and more value — social, environmental and economic — and to open up the opportunities next door.
Project pipeline
Four places, two communities.
Our initial pipeline is in Penticton, British Columbia and Okotoks, Alberta — growing communities where housing demand is strong and local partners are open to doing things differently.
A mixed-use riverside development combining homes, commercial space and a public plaza. Stage TBC
Hotel and residences across from the beach. Stage TBC
An affordable housing development. Stage TBC
A mixed-use riverside district with shared public space, next to the historic downtown. Stage TBC
Project values are indicative estimates of total project cost at completion, shown for illustration only. Projects are at different stages of planning and approval; scope, timing and value may change, and some may not proceed. Renderings are conceptual.
Leadership
Design, construction and finance at one table.
Our founding team brings together living-systems design, large-project delivery, construction technology and institutional finance — the combination this kind of development needs.
Greg Hart
Chief Executive Officer · Chair · Calgary, AB
Thirty years innovating in behaviour-based and living-systems design across nearly 200 settings, from software and manufacturing to streets and public spaces. Greg leads Collegium’s regenerative design work.
- 30years in design
- ~200settings designed
- 15 yrsBreda University partnership
- Future Fit Cities — CEO
- Thin Air Labs — Founding Partner
- University of Calgary, SAPL — Co-lead, Doctor of Design program
- InceptionU — Co-founder
- Banff · Okotoks · Calgary — Bear St shared space; Rivers Edge; 1st Ave NE
- Vision Zero YYC — Founding team
Luke West, MBA
Chief Development Officer · Calgary, AB
More than 25 years of executive leadership across real estate development, engineering, asset management and technology, with billions of dollars in complex projects delivered across North America. Luke leads investment strategy, acquisitions and project execution.
- 25+years leadership
- $265MP&L, WSP buildings unit
- Top 10Calgary Technology 2023
- Collegium Technologies — Founder & CEO
- WSP Canada — National Director, Operations
- Parliament Buildings, Ottawa — P&L oversight, $5B program
- Steinway Tower, NYC — Executive lead for WSP
- ATCO Structures — Sr. Operations & Asset Manager
- University of Calgary — MBA · BCIT — Electrical Engineering Tech.
Robert (Bob) J. Tomes, CPA
Chief Financial Officer · Nanaimo, BC
Over 45 years of institutional financial leadership as a public-company CFO and in capital markets, treasury, fund management and real estate development finance.
- 6CFO roles, 2 public
- $25M+equity raised
- $500M+credit facilities managed
- Kelman Technologies (TSE) — Public company CFO
- WellPoint Systems (TSX-V) — Public company CFO
- TELUS — Four senior roles, incl. the $750M Alberta IPO
- MERBANCO — VP Finance, $25M venture fund
- Tripeze.com — Scaled to $10M revenue
- Richardson Greenshields — VP Financial Administration
Duncan Findlay, PhD
Chief Operations Officer · Calgary, AB
Full-stack engineer and data scientist with more than 15 years delivering data-driven solutions in construction technology, energy and geoscience. Duncan architected the platform that turns building models into procurement and financial workflows.
- 15+years experience
- BIM → $platform architect
- PhDGeology, McMaster
- Collegium Technologies — Built the production proptech platform
- CNRL — Lead Geomodelling
- Devon Canada — Geologist
- Suncor Energy — Senior Geologist
Governance
Board of directors
Greg Hart (Chair), Luke West, Duncan Findlay and Bob Tomes. Advisors TBC
For investors
Partners who want returns of every kind.
We work with institutional investors, family offices, foundations and other qualified partners who see regenerative development as both mission-aligned and a sound long-term investment.
Why this, why now
- Persistent housing shortages in growing Western Canadian communities
- Federal, provincial and municipal programs that reward affordability, energy performance and accessibility — the same outcomes our approach is built around
- A delivery model designed to reduce construction cost, schedule and operating risk
- An experienced team spanning design, development, construction technology and public-company finance
How to engage
- Introductory conversations with the leadership team
- Detailed materials shared with eligible investors under confidentiality, once suitability is confirmed
- Project-level partnership discussions for landowners and municipalities