Callidus Means Experienced, Skillful, Dextrous

Our design team will bring experience, knowledge, and specialized skills to your project. Whether it is lighting, fire protection, power, plumbing, HVAC or fire alarm, we will design the systems to suit your needs and budget.

Our experience includes projects in residential, community gatherings, healthcare, industrial, institutional, transportation, and other sectors.

Our wide range of experiences allows us to apply solutions across sectors. We use our experiences to be flexible with our designs, responding to you the client and your needs – looking beyond the standards of a given sector. With over 600 years of combined engineering and design experience, Callidus endeavours to bring our collective knowledge to every project.

Our history

Callidus Engineering was established in 2005 by its founders Grant Hall, Michael Gubesch and Matthew VanGilst. Grant and Michael had a long history of partnering together on projects, and merging their firms (J.E.D Engineering and M.G.G Engineering) into one company was a natural progression.

With a strong team, some fantastic clients, commitment to meeting client needs and a little luck, Callidus Engineering has quickly grown from nine employees in 2005 to the 50+ person team they have today. Currently, the Callidus team is made up of 18 licensed professional engineers who together are licensed across Canada – nine provinces and three territories.

Core Values

Callidus Engineering helps people where they live, play, learn, and heal by delivering thoughtful engineering solutions for buildings. That work depends on the way our team approaches each project, each relationship, and each responsibility.

We Get Things Done – We understand our work and know the right questions to ask. Excuses are not for us, so we deliver on our promises, own the inputs of our work, anticipate critical paths ahead of time, and act accordingly. We follow through with what we say, produce results, and meet deadlines without cutting corners.

We Pursue Better – We are proud of our work, but we are always looking for ways to make it better. We treat every day as an opportunity to improve, so we constantly look for improvements that truly matter. We ask questions from curiosity, seek out opportunities to learn, and bring ideas to the table. We invest in training and growing knowledge so we can improve results for our clients, improve ourselves and strive for better outcomes.

We Care – We build strong partnerships based on trust and respect. We celebrate achievements, support each other through challenges, listen actively, and prioritize people, their well-being, growth, and success. Our work reflects our care for the communities we’re a part of, and the people who live in them. We lead with collaboration and gain from the diverse perspectives of consultants, owners, contractors, and building officials as we work together to bring important projects to life. We care about our clients’ goals and challenges, and that care creates confidence because they know we are invested in their total success, not just a single project.