Commercial design-build · Metro Vancouver & the Fraser Valley
We build the roomsyour business happens in.
Commercial tenant improvements and design-build across Metro Vancouver.
One contract, one team, one number that holds — from the work letter to the morning you unlock the doors.
The difference
Your budget breaks in the lease, not on the site.
Most tenant improvement budgets are decided before a contractor is called — in the work letter, the schedule in your lease that says what the landlord delivers and what you fund.
That document moves a budget by more than any trade rate we could negotiate on your behalf. It is also the only part still open to change, and only until the lease is signed. So it is the first thing we read.
What we build
Commercial interiors, across six sectors.
Workplace & professional
Headquarters, professional floors and studios. Reception areas that read as architecture, boardrooms that hold a close…
Medical, dental & clinical
Physiotherapy, dental, dermatology and specialist suites that feel considered and still satisfy infection-control requ…
Retail & showroom
Storefronts, commercial retail units and display interiors built to a lease-commencement date — including night work w…
Services
Four ways we take a space from empty to open.
Tenant improvements
Office, clinic, retail and restaurant fit-outs delivered against the fixturing period the lease actually grants.
Shell to finish
Taking a bare building shell to a complete, occupiable interior under one contract.
Ground-up construction
Shell, core and envelope for owners and developers — to a standard tenants can build against.
Project management
Owner's representation — budgets, tendering, consultants, permits and progress reporting.
Method
One firm holds the risk.
A conflict between the drawings and the site is ours to absorb, not yours to arbitrate. That is the whole argument for design-build.
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Read the work letter
Before a layout, before a rate, before anything. The work letter decides what the landlord delivers and what you fund — and it moves budgets by more than any trade rate we could negotiate. If you have not signed yet, this is also the point at which the number is still negotiable.
You get: A written summary of what you are actually responsible for building, and where the allowance lands against it.
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Walk the space
Existing conditions are where estimates go wrong. Service capacity at the panel, mechanical provision at the ceiling, the state of the demising walls, whether the washrooms are yours or shared, what a change of use will trigger. An hour on site is worth a week of assumptions.
You get: A condition note listing the items that carry real cost risk, and the ones that don't.
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Price the design as it is drawn
Cost feedback runs alongside the drawings, not after them. Layout options carry their cost differences with them, so you are choosing between a plan and a price at the same time rather than discovering the price later.
You get: Layout options with costs attached, then a fixed price once scope is settled.
Budget estimator
Know the number before the lease is signed.
An order-of-magnitude construction budget on current Metro Vancouver rates — and it nets off a landlord allowance by asset class, which is the figure most estimators leave out.
It will not replace a quotation. It will tell you whether the deal in front of you is fundable before you commit to it.
Start a project
Tell us about the space.
Send the unit, the approximate square footage and your target opening date. A lease or work letter tells us more than a floor plan does.