Built for owners and builders who need a project that holds together.
Lumenalis Consulting is an Ottawa practice serving small developers, owners, and builders — feasibility analysis, financial modelling, and the project leadership that turns intent into a delivered building.
Principal
Mohamed Abdelrahman founded Lumenalis Consulting Ltd. in December 2023, on the strength of a construction and development project-management record in Ottawa that now spans six years, from 2021 to 2026.
That record comprises nineteen projects led — sixteen as project manager — across owner-developer builds and conversions, institutional and commercial fit-ups, and private residential work. The aggregate project value is roughly $30.5 million, with about $17.3 million of construction value managed directly; the full, anonymised account is published under Selected Works.
Alongside the project work, he builds the budgets, cost-control systems, and reporting that development and construction depend on, so an owner can see where a project stands at any moment.
Lumenalis is the externalisation of that practice — the feasibility, financial, and project leadership that larger shops keep in-house, made available to small developers and owners.
Credentials
- CACB Educational Certification #23570 — Carleton University, 2020
- B.Sc. Architecture Engineering — Minya University, Faculty of Engineering, 2017
- PMP Candidate
- Ontario Business Corporation #CN17533
Operating principles
Test feasibility before committing capital.
Every engagement begins with the feasibility question. We test whether the site, the numbers, and the schedule support the plan before capital commits, because a budget built on a flawed premise only fails faster.
Fixed-fee scoping for every engagement.
Lumenalis quotes a fixed fee on a defined scope, with explicit exclusions and a single point of accountability. Hourly billing is reserved for change requests outside the original Scope of Work.
Deliverables are signed, dated, and version-controlled.
Every artefact carries a document control number, a version, and a date; nothing leaves the practice unattributed or unauditable.
Independence is the product.
Lumenalis sells advice and representation, not construction volume, listings, or loans. The firm holds no interest in any contractor, brokerage, or lender it recommends or supervises, and no fee is contingent on a transaction closing; the counsel an owner receives is priced to be correct, not to be agreeable.
The standard of the work
Every figure Lumenalis publishes can be recomputed from its stated basis. Pro formas, cost plans, and feasibility models are built to be opened, audited, and argued with — not merely read.
Cost estimates are classified against the AACE International cost-estimate framework, and insured-financing work follows CMHC underwriting conventions. The sample models under Selected Works are anonymised to PIPEDA standards with their arithmetic left intact.
The work is reviewed adversarially before it leaves the practice — the first reader to attack a model is the firm that built it. What an owner receives is therefore meant to survive a lender’s scrutiny, not merely to look finished.
Where we work, and with whom
Lumenalis is based in Ottawa and works the Ottawa-Gatineau region in person, with the broader Ontario market served remotely. The practice takes a limited number of engagements each quarter, by referral or direct outreach — a deliberate constraint, since a single principal with a record of compressing timelines does it by being inside one engagement at a time.
Contact
Tell us what you’re trying to build.
The button opens an email to mohamed@lumenalis.com with the four prompts below already laid out.
Telephone (613) 558-2823
We reply within one business day.
What to include
A few lines on the points below let the first reply be substantive rather than a request for further particulars:
- Your organisation or project, and what stage it has reached.
- The situation: what is breaking, stalling, or unproven.
- Rough engagement size, if you have a sense of it.
- Your timeline.
On LinkedIn. Mohamed Abdelrahman.
In person across Ottawa and the Ottawa-Gatineau region; remote across the broader Ontario market.
Common questions
How do you price an engagement?
We quote a fixed fee against a defined scope, with explicit exclusions and a single point of accountability. Hourly billing is reserved for work outside the agreed scope.
What size and stage of project do you take?
Small developers, owners, and builders — typically one to ten units, and acquisitions under five million dollars. We work from feasibility through close-out, on a single stage or across several.
Do you arrange the financing or submit the CMHC application?
No. We prepare and lead the application package; a licensed mortgage broker submits it through the broker’s direct access to the insurer. We do not provide mortgage brokering, securities, accounting, or professional-engineering sign-off.
We use your information only to respond to your inquiry. We do not sell or share it.
Lumenalis Consulting Ltd. is profiled with the Better Business Bureau and on Google.
Lumenalis Consulting Ltd. — Ottawa, Ontario. CN17533.
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