About Zencore Dynamics
Zencore Dynamics is a small, owner-run mechanical contractor. We install, service and maintain heating, cooling and refrigeration systems for homes, multi-family and small commercial buildings. We’re deliberately small, so the owner stays on every job.
Michael, owner
Michael has spent 22 years in the trade, and most of it has been hands-on.
Gas and fireplaces. He started out installing and servicing fireplaces and doing residential and commercial gas fitting.
Commercial refrigeration. Next came commercial refrigeration service: clean rooms, food processing plants, data centres and restaurants, along with make-up air units, cooling towers and commercial boilers. Service work on equipment that can’t go down is where he learned to diagnose properly.
Running a company. He co-owned and ran a 12-person HVAC company in North Vancouver, installing residential systems across the North Shore, the Sunshine Coast, Pender Harbour, Anmore and the Sea-to-Sky up to Whistler and Pemberton. The company also did two hotels in Terrace. He later sold it.
The Arctic. He spent a year building a fire assay lab out of sea containers at Hope Bay, Nunavut.
Teaching at BCIT. For five years he taught refrigeration and air conditioning at BCIT. He rebuilt the curriculum and apprenticeship program to the new harmonized Red Seal standard, and moved the whole program online, with every grade tracked.
Zencore Dynamics. He then started Zencore Dynamics to do the work he enjoys most: well-designed systems, hard service problems, and interesting projects.
How we work
- The owner is involved in every job. Michael designs every system and stands behind every service call.
- Design comes first. Heat loss calculation, then equipment, then piping. Not the other way round.
- We finish properly. Every new system is commissioned, and you get a written report of how it’s set up.
- We keep it running. Annual maintenance and repairs, on our installs and other people’s.
Credentials
- Licensed contractor with Technical Safety BC
- Class B Gas Fitter
- Red Seal Refrigeration Mechanic
- TECA-certified HVAC and Hydronics Designer
- Five years as a refrigeration and air conditioning instructor at BCIT