By Leah Kellar
            
          
        
        
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          More than 20 SMS Engineering Ltd.
        
        
          staff proudly hold the accreditation of
        
        
          being LEED-certified innovative solu-
        
        
          tions providers for sustainable
        
        
          development in Canada.
        
        
          After an impressive
        
        
          49 years of
        
        
          business,
        
        
          t h e
        
        
          company, which provides integrated me-
        
        
          chanical and electrical engineering servic-
        
        
          es for a broad range of construction proj-
        
        
          ects of both new and existing facilities, is
        
        
          celebrating its Golden Jubilee this year
        
        
          with a nod to its latest energy-efficient de-
        
        
          sign and development projects backed by
        
        
          LEED accreditation.
        
        
          LEED (Leadership in Energy and Envi-
        
        
          ronmental Design) is a rating system es-
        
        
          tablished in 2002 that is the international
        
        
          mark of excellence for green building in
        
        
          more than 132 countries. “SMS Engi-
        
        
          neering was one of the first com-
        
        
          panies to become involved
        
        
          in LEED,” V. Stirling Wal-
        
        
          kes, Principal LEED Senior
        
        
          Mechanical
        
        
          Engi-
        
        
          neer told Business
        
        
          Elite Canada in a
        
        
          recent interview
        
        
          to mark the com-
        
        
          pany’s half-cen-
        
        
          JUNE 2014
        
        
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