What EMS Ingénierie does

EMS Ingénierie Inc. is a privately held, Quebec City-based engineering consulting firm founded in May 2006. The firm provides multi-disciplinary engineering services — structural, civil, maritime, industrial, environmental, and energy — to government, municipal, and enterprise clients, with three operating divisions: EMS Structure, EMS Infrastructure, and Investigation EMS. Headcount has grown from 2 founders to approximately 98 employees, including nearly 50 engineers.

The firm's technical portfolio is grounded in conventional engineering tooling — Building Information Modeling (BIM), LEED-aligned sustainable design, and proprietary structural techniques such as a ductile X-bracing system with 'fuse' elements reported to achieve roughly 5% steel tonnage savings. Flagship work includes structural engineering for Canada's largest wind farms (Gros-Morne at 211.5 MW and Rivière-du-Moulin at 350 MW, totaling over 1,000 MW), industrial facilities for Exceldor and Sanimax, the first North American biomethanization plant at Rivière-du-Loup, and innovative timber structures such as the La Tortue cable-stayed footbridge. The Investigation EMS division additionally provides forensic engineering, expert witness work, and Bill 122 compliance inspections.

EMS operates a professional services, project-based revenue model, billing engineering design, supervision, and expert consulting fees against the construction value of client mandates. In the last reported year the firm engineered more than CAD $750 million of construction work across over 1,000 projects. The firm is privately held with no disclosed institutional investors, parent company, or M&A activity; go-to-market is direct enterprise and government field sales concentrated in Quebec, supplemented by professional referrals and a bilingual project-portfolio website.

Name

EMS Ingénierie

Legal name

EMS Ingénierie Inc.

Website

https://ems-ing.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2006

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

EMS Ingénierie is a Quebec City-based, privately held engineering consulting firm providing structural, civil, industrial, energy, environmental, and forensic engineering services to government and enterprise clients across Quebec, with approximately 100 employees including 50 engineers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Quebec City

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Engineering Consulting Services: Professional engineering and consulting services for construction projects including structural design, civil engineering, infrastructure, industrial, energy, and construction services. Revenue generated through project-based fees for engineering design, supervision, and expert consulting services.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

EMS Ingénierie is a professional engineering and consulting firm providing structural, civil, infrastructure, environmental, industrial, and energy engineering services. The firm delivers design, supervision, expert assessments, and project management for construction projects of all sizes, organized across three divisions: EMS Structure, EMS Infrastructure, and Investigation EMS.

Product overview

EMS Ingénierie is a Québec-based engineering and consulting firm founded in May 2006, operating through three main divisions: EMS Structure, EMS Infrastructure, and Investigation EMS. The company provides comprehensive engineering services across multiple expertise areas including building, infrastructure, environmental, industrial, and energy engineering. Their energy services span wind farms (with projects exceeding 1,000 MW), petroleum, telecommunications towers, dams, and thermal/biomass/biogas systems. They also offer construction services, procurement and project management, and legal/forensic engineering expertise including Bill 122 compliance inspections. Notable projects include wind farms (Gros-Mornes 211.5 MW, Rivière-du-Moulin 350 MW), the first North American biomethanization plant in Rivière-du-Loup, industrial facilities for Exceldor and Sanimax, and innovative infrastructure like the La Tortue wooden footbridge. The company has grown from 2 employees in 2006 to nearly 100 employees including 50 engineers, and completed engineering for over $750 million in construction work in the last year alone.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Building Engineering

Quantifiable outcome

• Designed foundations for Canada's largest wind farms exceeding 1000 MW total capacity
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments8 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• AECOM: Global infrastructure consulting firm with practices spanning transportation, buildings, water, and energy — directly comparable to EMS's service portfolio, though at multi-national scale and project size.
• Hatch: Canadian engineering firm with strong mining, energy, and infrastructure practices. Comparable to EMS in industrial and energy engineering scope but with a much heavier mining/metals specialization.
• Stantec: North American engineering, architecture, and environmental services firm. Overlaps with EMS across buildings, infrastructure, industrial, and energy engineering but operates globally with a much larger headcount.
• AtkinsRéalis (formerly SNC-Lavalin): Canadian engineering giant with deep Quebec roots. Provides structural, civil, industrial, and energy engineering comparable to EMS, but at far greater scale across nuclear, infrastructure, and mining.
• Tetra Tech: Global engineering and consulting firm focused on water, environment, infrastructure, and energy. Overlaps with EMS's environmental, water, and infrastructure engineering practices at a much larger scale.
• WSP Global: Montreal-headquartered global engineering consulting firm. Competes with EMS on structural, infrastructure, and energy projects across Canada and offers the full breadth of disciplines EMS covers plus many more, making it the dominant incumbent peer.

Direct peers

• Norda Stelo: Quebec-headquartered engineering and project management firm. Direct competitor in infrastructure, energy, and industrial engineering for Quebec-based clients and government agencies.
• CIMA+: Canadian multidisciplinary engineering firm with strong Quebec presence. Directly competes with EMS in building, infrastructure, energy, and industrial engineering across the same regional market.
• EXP: Canadian engineering and architecture firm (formerly Trow Global). Overlaps with EMS in structural, civil, and infrastructure engineering and serves the same Quebec-Ontario corridor.
• BBA: Quebec-based engineering firm specializing in energy, mining, and industrial sectors. Closest direct peer to EMS in footprint, culture, and service mix, with overlapping expertise in renewables and industrial engineering in Quebec.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/ems-ingenierie

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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