Engineering Services

Our Engineering Services team supports organizations in planning and delivering hydrogen projects, backed by real experience designing, building, and operating transportation-focused hydrogen infrastructure, including several of Canada’s earliest and first-of-their-kind deployments.

With project experience across North America and beyond, our team can support hydrogen initiatives anywhere in the world.

What We Do:

  • Strategic Advisory & Feasibility
  • Project Development Support
  • Design & Engineering
  • Owner’s Engineer Services
  • Deployment & Operational Readiness
  • Specialized Hydrogen Expertise
  • Select Clean-Energy Services
  • Zero-Emission Transportation Services

 

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Engineering Services at a Glance

Projects

Customers

Years of Experience

Recent Projects

Fuel Cell Bus and Hydrogen Fuelling Infrastructure

Fuel Cell Bus and Hydrogen Fuelling Infrastructure

Santa Clarita, California

Project Description:

HTEC is acting as the owner’s representative and providing project management for the City of Santa Clarita to plan, design, and install a hydrogen production and dispensing station at their transit facility.

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UBC Transportation Testbed

UBC Transportation Testbed

Vancouver, BC

Project Description:

UBC Transportation Testbed project was a brownfield project on UBC campus. HTEC was part of an integrated team of consultants including Architects and an EPC contractor. 

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Hydrogen Strategy for Canada

Hydrogen Strategy for Canada

Canada

Project Description:

HTEC developed the national hydrogen strategy for Canada under contract to Natural Resources Canada (NRCan). The hydrogen strategy leveraged materials and key learnings from other studies and stakeholder engagement undertaken by NRCan and its previous consultants.

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Meet the Engineering Services Team

Tim Murray

Tim Murray

Director, Engineer Services

Tim leads the Engineering Services team at HTEC. He has over a decade of experience in the clean energy sector, with a focus on technoeconomic modelling and strategic analysis to support the development of zero-emission technologies and low-carbon fuels. He is experienced in conducting stakeholder engagement and interviews in support of hydrogen research projects, including the Hydrogen Strategy for Canada, a hydrogen feasibility study for Atlantic Canada, and a hydrogen feasibility study for BC.

Cleone Robinson

Cleone Robinson

Project Manager & Analyst

Cleone is a Project Manager and Analyst at HTEC with over five years of experience in the clean energy and hydrogen sector. She specializes in hydrogen feasibility studies and strategic consulting projects focused on decarbonization and low-carbon fuel adoption. Cleone has experience managing and contributing to techno-economic analysis and data-driven modelling for regional and sector-specific hydrogen assessments, including fleet transition plans and hydrogen hub evaluations. 

Norm Barmeier

Norm Barmeier

Senior Manager

Norm has over 20 years of gas and fluid infrastructure design and project execution experience. He specializes in complex system integration and technical project management. As a Senior Engineer and Design Authority, he has overseen the design, construction, and commissioning of HTEC’s hydrogen station network. His dynamic approach focuses on galvanizing experts and stakeholders across design, permitting, and construction to overcome complex challenges and deliver critical hydrogen infrastructure. 

Project Description:

HTEC is acting as the owner's representative and providing project management for the City of Santa Clarita to plan, design, and install a hydrogen production and dispensing station at their transit facility. The hydrogen plant will be capable of producing and dispensing over 400 kg-H2/day, enough to support a fleet of up to 16 fuel cell electric buses.

Work Scope:

The project scope involves:

  • -Planning reviewing existing operations to determine key requirements of the station,
  • -Developing the station scope of work requirements and contractor request for proposal,
  • -Assisting in the evaluation of received proposals, and
  • -Provide project management and technical services throughout the design, construction and commissioning.

Project Timeline:

February 2022 to Ongoing

Project Description:

UBC Transportation Testbed project was a brownfield project on UBC campus. HTEC was part of an integrated team of consultants including Architects and an EPC contractor. The project included a hydrogen station, hydrogen cooling, an onsite hydrogen production facility, solar power, EV charging and an energy management system. The station provides both light duty 700 bar and heavy duty 350 bar filling. It has onsite hydrogen production via PEM electrolysis. The system compresses hydrogen from the electrolyzer directly into ground storage, the same ground storage used to fuel vehicles. This is a first of its kind facility in Canada.

Work Scope:

HTEC provided hydrogen system design expertise, equipment selection support, system integration direction, construction and commissioning services. HTEC was an integral part of the design team from concept through construction and commissioning to operating. HTECs designed the hydrogen process, selected all major equipment, directed facility design, developed major equipment specifications for procurement and supported the selection of the main EPC contractor for construction and equipment installation. HTEC’s commissioning team led system start up, and HTEC’s Operations has taken over the day-to-day operation and maintenance of the station and production facility for UBC.

Project Timeline:

June 2018 to June 2022

Project Description:

HTEC (previously Zen Clean Energy Solutions) developed the national hydrogen strategy for Canada under contract to Natural Resources Canada (NRCan). The hydrogen strategy leveraged materials and key learnings from other studies and stakeholder engagement undertaken by NRCan and its previous consultants. The strategy’s main objectives are to identify hydrogen’s role in decarbonizing Canada’s economy in the long-term (2050) and determine a path forward for the use of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies in optimal supply and end-use applications within Canada.

Work Scope:

HTEC’s primary scope was to synthesize our modelling data with existing materials into a cohesive strategy and roadmap that set short-term, mid-term, and long-term recommendations and defined clear roles and responsibilities needed to achieve the roadmap targets. HTEC led significant stakeholder engagement sessions including targeted interviews with industry, government, and non-governmental organizations.

The study considered various hydrogen production pathways from a commercial and environmental perspective, and hydrogen applications including but not limited to transportation, heating for the built environment and industry. The study addressed the barriers to commercialization identifying key gaps in the current H2 ecosystem, a plan for achieving 2050 targets, and a set of actionable recommendations for implementation.

The final strategy is available online here: <Link>

Project Timeline:

April 2020 to December 2020