Wound³ Inc. · Feb 2024 – Jan 2025

Wound³ headquarters: 2,200 sq ft industrial bay build-out

Conversion of a 2,200 sq ft industrial bay into Wound³'s headquarters: the company's main office and workspace, on two storeys, built out over about 12 months.

My role: Led the build-out and, with my co-founder, self-performed about 90% of it: all framing, electrical, and HVAC (including the duct design), plus part of the plumbing and much of the finishing.

Render of the bay model: the framed two-storey office block at one end and the main supply duct run along the wall.

The finished bay, June 2025: the stair up to the office block's second floor and the open floor below.

Highlights

Designed and installed the HVAC for a ~2,200 sq ft two-floor office: ran heating and cooling load calculations per room, sized the ductwork from the rooftop unit with a ductulator and hand calculations, and produced drawings for the duct supplier, for 90% less in materials than the contractor quotes.
Built out Wound³'s headquarters (about 2,200 sq ft) over 12 months with my co-founder, self-performing about 90% of the work: all framing, electrical, and HVAC, plus part of the plumbing and much of the finishing.
Produced floor plans and bills of materials for the build-out and ran procurement with industrial suppliers.

My contribution

This was Wound³'s own headquarters: we converted an empty industrial bay into the company's main office and workspace. My co-founder and I did about 90% of the work ourselves: all of the framing for the two-storey office block, all of the electrical, the full HVAC system, part of the plumbing, and much of the finishing. The main exception was the natural gas work.

I also designed the HVAC: room-by-room heating and cooling load calculations, duct sizing with a ductulator and hand calculations, and layout drawings the duct supplier fabricated from. I produced the floor plans and bills of materials and ran procurement with industrial suppliers.

Technical details

Two floors of offices, conference rooms, a kitchen, and washrooms inside a 2,200 sq ft industrial bay, conditioned from a rooftop unit through ductwork I sized and laid out.

Tools and processes

Processes: framing; electrical rough-in; ductwork layout; demolition

Key figures

Facility size	about 2,200 sq ft
Project budget	about $100,000 CAD
Duration	12 months
Share of the build-out self-performed (with co-founder)	about 90 percent
HVAC cost reduction (material cost of self-designed and self-installed system versus contractor quotes)	90 percent

Part of Wound³ Inc. (Fabri Sciences Inc.).