TORONTO, Ontario, October 5, 2026 – EFI Global, a multidisciplinary consulting firm that helps clients investigate, assess and resolve complex property, infrastructure and environmental challenges, announced the expansion of its building consulting services across Canada. The expanded practice will further support insurers, claims professionals, risk managers, and property owners with damage assessments, repair planning, cost evaluation, water mitigation and construction oversight following property losses.
Led by Michael Vu, Vice President of Building Consulting, Americas at EFI Global, the expansion enhances the firm’s ability to offer specialized building consulting expertise to clients across Canada. The strengthened service complements the firm’s established engineering, environmental, fire investigation, and specialty consulting capabilities, providing a single source for technical expertise throughout the lifecycle of a claim.
“Canada represents a significant growth opportunity for our building consulting practice,” said Vu. “Our goal is to provide clients with practical, technically sound guidance from the initial assessment through project completion. By combining building consulting with EFI Global’s broader engineering, environmental, and specialty expertise, we can help clients make informed decisions, reduce uncertainty, and achieve better outcomes throughout the claims process.”
EFI Global’s building consulting professionals help clients assess damage, develop repair and replacement scopes, validate costs, and monitor construction. They also provide builder’s risk analysis, schedule delay evaluations, code compliance reviews, litigation support, and large-loss response.
“Complex property losses often require expertise from multiple disciplines,” said John Thomas, Construction Division Lead at EFI Global in Canada. “By expanding our building consulting capabilities in Canada, we are making it easier for clients to access the specialized knowledge they need through a single trusted partner. Combined with our engineering, environmental, fire investigation and other technical services, we can provide a more integrated approach that helps clients move claims forward with greater confidence and efficiency.”
The expansion reflects the firm’s continued investment in Canada and its commitment to helping clients address increasingly complex property and construction-related challenges.
About EFI Global
EFI Global, a wholly owned subsidiary of Sedgwick, is a well-established brand with an excellent reputation in the Americas, Africa, Asia-Pacific and Europe as a market leader in environmental consulting, engineering failure analysis and origin-and-cause investigations. Each year, EFI Global completes more than 45,000 projects worldwide for a wide range of clients, such as commercial, industrial, institutional, insurance, government, risk managers, public and private entities. EFI Global is one of the world’s most respected forensics and emergency response firms, capable of providing practical solutions to the most complex problems. Our multidisciplinary team of first responders, project managers, engineers, geologists and scientists are selected for their technical proficiency and in-depth industry knowledge to aid clients in resolving technical problems. For more, see EFIGlobal.com.
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John Thomas
Senior Vice President, Construction Services
Michael Vu
Vice President, Building Consulting