Independent real estate & facilities governance
Real estate and facilities governance where our only stake is your outcome.
Noyau Bleu is an independent, fee-only advisory firm for regulated, multi-site organizations that spend heavily on buildings and outsourced services. We give heads of real estate the independent evidence to win the argument with finance, and we cover the seat when it is empty. We earn nothing from the transactions or contracts we recommend — our advice answers to you alone.
No commission. No contract. No conflict.
- 20+ yearscorporate real estate executive leadership
- Enterprise-scaleprocurement governance experience
- Brokerage licenceChartered Real Estate Broker, Québec
- Six Sigma & inspectionLean Six Sigma belt and building inspection certification
- EN/FRnative-level delivery in French and English
What we do
Five pillars, one governance discipline
From portfolio and capital strategy through vendor-independent technology decisions, every pillar is delivered fee-only, led personally by the founder, with nothing sold to you along the way.
Portfolio & Capital Strategy
Multi-site portfolio strategy and capital planning discipline — lease-vs-own decisions, footprint modeling, and business cases built to withstand scrutiny from your CFO and your board.
Learn more Flagship serviceSupplier & Outsourced Services Governance
Independent audits of your integrated facilities and outsourced-service contracts — are you getting what you pay for, are the KPIs measuring anything real, and is the pricing model working against you?
Learn moreFractional & Interim Real Estate Leadership
An experienced real estate executive embedded in your organization one to three days a week — covering a vacancy, an integration, or a crisis without the cost or delay of a full-time search.
Learn moreWorkplace, ESG & Certification Programs
Workplace and hybrid-footprint strategy grounded in actual utilization data, plus WELL and LEED program management and carbon-reduction roadmaps for the buildings you already occupy.
Learn moreData, Technology & Benchmarking
Vendor-independent IWMS/PropTech selection, implementation oversight, and cost/occupancy benchmarking — technology decisions driven by your data model, not a vendor's roadmap.
Learn moreHow we work
Five operating principles, not a slide-deck approach
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Fee-only, always
We take no commissions, no referral fees, and no vendor kickbacks — full stop. Every recommendation is paid for by the organization that receives it, and by no one else.
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Capability transfer
Every engagement leaves your team more capable than it started — not less dependent on outside help, but genuinely more able to do it themselves. Clients come back because it works, not because they have to. Your team keeps the working models, templates and governance routines: the decision-rights map, the risk register, the supplier scorecard, the business-case template.
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Evidence over opinion
No recommendation leaves our hands without a number behind it. Portfolio, utilization, and market data replace guesswork — every finding is defensible in front of a CFO or a board.
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Bilingual and local, with global reference points
Advisory delivered at a native level in both English and French, grounded in Québec and Canadian market practice, and benchmarked against how comparable organizations operate internationally.
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Small, senior teams
Every mandate is led personally by the founder — no analysts learning on your file, no pyramid of junior staff between you and the person making the call. Where a programme needs technical depth we do not hold in-house, specialists are engaged on your contract, not ours, under the same independence rule.