Site Servicing

Site servicing covers the water, storm, and sanitary connections a development needs to function, along with the shallow-utility coordination with BC Hydro, Telus, and Fortis. We design those connections and run the supporting analysis: fire flow demand, stormwater detention, infiltration targets, and sanitary capacity. Where municipal services are not available, we also scope well and septic options.

The drawing package depends on the permitting stage. Development permits take preliminary drawings, building and subdivision permits take an issued-for-construction set, and rezoning applications take a servicing report. Site servicing rarely moves on its own, so we pair it with grading, erosion and sediment control, and off-site upgrade design when the municipality requires it.

We work on subdivisions, site plan developments, townhomes, condominiums, commercial and institutional builds, and the multiplex and infill work opening up across B.C. under Bill 44. Each of those carries a different review process, a different municipal style, and a different set of servicing constraints.

Regional detail is part of the work. What the Sunshine Coast Regional District expects is not what the District of Squamish expects, and neither matches the District of West Vancouver. We have carried enough projects through these review cycles to know where each municipality pushes back and where the cost pressure shows up.

What clients want from a servicing designer is a drawing set the municipality will approve with few review comments. That is what we design toward.

We have been through enough reviews on the Coast and in Sea-to-Sky to know where drawings usually get flagged, so we resolve those items in design rather than in the review cycle. The result is fewer comments returned, a shorter approval path, and an issued-for-construction set that matches what gets built.