For once, we mean that literally. We're rebuilding our project showcase for this new site — proper photography, full case studies, drawings at a size you can actually read. Until then, the old portfolio is posted below. It looks its age. The work it shows is exactly what we still do.
Please excuse the appearance while we work.
Images as they were in our files. New photography is on the list.
A boarded-up heritage home with a failing foundation, brought back from the brink. We lifted the house to pour a new, code-compliant foundation, designed a full seismic upgrade into the existing structure, and reworked the building top to bottom — keeping the character craftsman massing while making it sound for another century.
A James Bay centennial home converted into multiple units without losing its street presence. The trick was planning the new suites around the existing load-bearing paths, then upgrading the foundation to carry the change — adding density to a heritage property while keeping the structural work, and the budget, contained.
A new home on a sloped oceanfront lot — the kind of site that rewards careful engineering. We stabilized the slope, anchored the structure to the grade, and designed accessibility into the plan from the start, so the house works with the land instead of fighting it, with the water view doing the rest.
A ground-up modern duplex in Lake Cowichan — clean massing, mixed cladding, and a stepped form that follows the grade. Designed and engineered together as a single package, from the site plan and renderings through to the stamped structural drawings that took it to permit.
Found space, engineered. We underpinned the existing footings of an Oak Bay home and excavated a low crawlspace down into full-height, usable room — turning dead space beneath the house into a proper wine cellar. Underpinning is delicate, sequenced work; this is the kind of structural problem we like.
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