Frequently asked questions

Members of our team have served as engineer of record on projects in these jurisdictions, both at Landev and in prior roles. On the Sunshine Coast, that includes the Town of Gibsons, District of Sechelt, Sunshine Coast Regional District, Roberts Creek, Halfmoon Bay, Langdale, Egmont, and the Electoral Areas. Gambier Island falls under Metro Vancouver Regional District and the Islands Trust. In Sea-to-Sky, that includes the District of Squamish, Village of Pemberton, and Resort Municipality of Whistler. In Metro Vancouver, that includes the District of West Vancouver. In the Interior, that includes the City of Kamloops. Indigenous-led work on the Coast includes projects with shíshálh Nation.

We also coordinate regularly with the Ministry of Transportation and Transit and Vancouver Coastal Health where their review is part of the approval path.

If your project is elsewhere in British Columbia, reach out. We are open to work in other parts of the province when the project fit is right.

Earlier than most owners expect. On subdivisions and multiplex projects, the first question is often whether the site can support what the owner wants to build. That is a feasibility question, and it is better answered before the layout is fixed.

We look at frontage, servicing capacity, topography, access, and exposure to off-site upgrades at that stage. By the time the architectural layout is locked in, those civil constraints have already started shaping scope and cost.

Feasibility first, before the purchase closes or the design locks in, is where most avoidable rework gets removed.

Both. On properties without municipal sanitary service, we handle septic assessment, percolation testing, system sizing, health-authority filings, and design.

Dustin Christmas and Sean Blake are both ROWP-certified, so septic design stays in house on projects that need it. Where construction-phase services are required, we provide field reviews as part of that scope.

Feasibility comes first: title and charges, frontage, servicing capacity, topography, access, and a preliminary cost estimate. If the project is viable, preliminary design covers lot layout, roadworks, stormwater strategy, and water, storm, and sanitary servicing, sized to the municipality's release rate and review expectations.

After Preliminary Layout Review response and approval, we prepare Issued for Construction drawings, handle tender review where requested, and provide field reviews, site instructions, municipal inspection reporting, substantial completion, and final acceptance.

Yes. That work can include field reviews, RFIs, contemplated change notices, municipal inspection reports, deficiency lists, substantial completion, and final acceptance.

A growing share of our contract administration work comes from consulting firms outside the region that designed the project but do not have people on the Sunshine Coast or in Squamish. For those projects, local site attendance matters when construction issues need a civil response during the work.

Sometimes. Each takeover is a case-by-case conversation. We review what has been designed, what has been built, and what has been submitted to the approving authority before we commit.

Where it is workable, it is because we can inspect the project ourselves and form an honest view of its current condition, rather than relying on inherited paperwork alone.

Both. Developers and architects make up most of our subdivision, site-servicing, and rezoning work.

Homeowners usually come to us for multiplex and infill projects under British Columbia's Small-Scale Multi-Unit Housing rules, septic design on unserviced properties, or the civil scope for a single-home building permit.

Yes. We provide stormwater modelling and pond design as standalone services for consulting firms that do not carry that scope in house.

We take the project brief, run the model in PCSWMM or the platform the approving authority accepts, size the infrastructure, and issue the report. No other scope is required.