About us

We take a commercial space from an empty unit to an approved permit set, and often through construction as well.

Most of our work is commercial tenant improvement: clinics, restaurants and cafés, daycares and schools, gyms and studios, professional offices and showrooms. A typical project runs from looking at a unit before the lease is signed, through concept design and BC Building Code analysis, to the city permit application and construction close-out.

We also design residential projects — single-family homes, laneway and infill housing, and small-scale multi-unit developments — carried through the same sequence.

Drawings are prepared in-house. A registered architect reviews the design making sure it is according to the code and bylaws before it is submitted. Where a project needs other consultants — structural, mechanical, electrical, code — we coordinate them rather than leaving the client to.

Every municipality in Metro Vancouver runs its permit process differently, and the difference is rarely written down in one place. Knowing which stream a project belongs in, and what each city wants to see before it will accept an application, is most of what keeps a timeline honest.

We have been designing since 2018 and building since 2007. The two sides inform each other: a drawing set produced by people who have been on site tends to answer the questions a builder is actually going to ask.

We work across North Vancouver, Vancouver, Burnaby, Surrey and Coquitlam, from our office at 2553 Western Ave, North Vancouver, BC V7N 3L2, Canada.

The first conversation is free and lasts about thirty minutes. Bring the unit address if you have one — a great deal can be worked out from it before anybody spends money.

Call 778-200-1100, email Info@3darcdesign.com, or book a time.