About & History
Founder-led.
Institutionally minded.
Havenz was built the way its projects are built: from the ground, in Alberta, one disciplined assembly at a time.
The Story
Sixteen years of assembling what others keep apart.
Havenz began in Alberta real estate and entrepreneurship — land, development and the discipline of delivering what was promised. Building and aligning as the real estate and build arm behind RISE Basketball added something most developers never learn: what a community asset must deliver every single day, at the standard families expect.
Those two threads — development capability and operating capability — became one platform. Today Havenz originates, assembles, capitalizes, delivers and operates major projects, with the AHI flagship in Red Deer County proving the model in steel, power and fibre.
The proof: AHI Red Deer — aerial, 2026
- 2010
Alberta roots
Real estate, entrepreneurship and development beginnings in Alberta.
- 2015
RISE Basketball founded
A community and sports platform is born in Calgary — with Havenz as its real estate and build arm.
- 2024
Platform formalized
The integrated smart-community and infrastructure platform takes corporate shape.
- 2025
Active delivery
Strategic projects advance from planning into active delivery.
- 2026
AHI construction & commissioning
The flagship campus's first generation phase advances through construction and commissioning.
- Next
Partner-led growth
National and international expansion — with partners leading in every new market.
The Vision
Build the places the next economy needs — and build them so communities own their future.
Energy security. Data security. Food security. Career security. Havenz exists to put all four on one site, under one plan, with partners who share in what gets built — starting in Alberta, engineered to travel anywhere the checklist holds.
Real estate first. Land, title, zoning and community fit come before technology — a development platform, not a land-flip.
Infrastructure always. Power, gas, fibre and water are designed in from the master plan — the backbone every use shares.
Communities forever. Careers, recreation, food and ownership structures that keep value local for generations.
Energy security — in construction
Data security — rendered visualization
Food security — concept, AI-generated
Career security — trades on siteLeadership
Sunny Sarpal
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Sunny Sarpal has spent his career assembling the pieces major projects need and rarely find in one place: land and land development, infrastructure and project assembly, capital and commercial structuring, and the partnerships that hold them together.
Under his leadership, Havenz has grown from Alberta real estate roots into an integrated development platform — anchored by the AHI flagship in Red Deer County, a flagship community customer in RISE — with Havenz as its real estate and build arm — and a technology company in HavenzTech. His work spans Indigenous and strategic partnerships, technology-enabled operations, and community and sports development, with a consistent long-term focus: durable Canadian infrastructure leadership that strengthens the communities it touches.
| Development | Real estate and land development across asset classes |
|---|---|
| Infrastructure | Infrastructure and complex project assembly |
| Capital | Capital and commercial structuring |
| Partnerships | Indigenous and strategic partnerships |
| Technology | Technology-enabled operations |
| Community | Community and sports development |
| Horizon | Long-term Canadian infrastructure leadership |
The Team
The people behind the platform.
Havenz runs the way a general contractor runs a major site: a senior core of partners, operators and advisors directing an assembled bench of specialist firms — so a focused team commands programs far larger than its headcount.
Executive & Partners
Vision, capital and commercial structuring, and the partnerships that hold major projects together.
Day-to-day operations across the platform — from project execution to the operating companies.
Senior counsel across development strategy, structuring and key relationships.
Construction and delivery advisory across the AHI program and the wider portfolio.
Capital strategy, project finance and institutional reporting. See the posting →
Operations, Development & Commercial
Development and technology advisory across platform initiatives.
Brokerage leadership and real estate operations through the CENTURY 21 Bravo relationship.
Engineering coordination across HavenzTech and the Havenz Hub program.
Project coordination across the development pipeline.
Analysis and reporting support across active projects.
Brand, communications and stakeholder materials across the platform.
Operations support across delivery workstreams.
Commercial development and partnership support.
Advisory Bench
Advisory counsel rooted in decades of business and community leadership.
Trusted project-delivery counsel across the AHI construction program.
Titles reflect current platform roles; the team grows with every project phase — see open roles.
How We Deliver
A lean core. A large command.
Like a general contractor on a major site, Havenz keeps the accountable roles in-house and mobilizes specialist firms under them — every function filled, every firm directed, one reporting standard.
Development
Core: development leadership M3 Development Management GGA Architecture ISL · Addoz · LonePine Bemoco · Tronnes surveysConstruction
Core: delivery oversight Full Spectrum Projects Volker Stevin civil Site trades & subcontractorsEnergy & Grid
Core: power program leadership Lionstooth Energy Collicutt · Rolls-Royce/mtu REV commissioning AESO · FortisAlberta · AltaLink processesCapital & Finance
Core: finance team + CFO (hiring) Treewalk finance operations CBRE valuation & advisory Lenders & institutional partnersPartnerships
Core: executive partnerships Turning Stone Developments (GP) First Nations & municipal relations CENTURY 21 Bravo · Luxury ListingTechnology & Operations
Core: AHI Management + HavenzTech Havenz Hub engineering Facility & asset operations TELUS · Denvr ecosystem*Across consultants, contractors, energy, survey, advisory and technology firms engaged on the AHI program. The GC approach: accountability stays in-house; scale is assembled.
Operating Principles
Five commitments, kept on every project.
Clarity over hype
Stage labels, source-dated numbers and honest language — because sophisticated counterparties can tell the difference.
Alignment before scale
The right partners, structures and incentives first. Scale follows alignment; it never substitutes for it.
Local strength, global standards
Local partners, local knowledge, local benefit — delivered to institutional standards everywhere.
Resilience by design
Energy, data, food and career security engineered into every site from the master plan onward.
Accountability, concept through operations
One platform answerable across the whole lifecycle — no handoffs, no orphaned phases.
Meet the Platform