BUILDING ENVELOPE CONSULTING
Vancouver’s Building Envelope Consulting Firm
LDR Engineering Group (LDR) provides comprehensive building envelope consulting engineering services on residential, commercial, heritage, and institutional building projects. Our clients include architects, developers, property managers, and professional facility managers who require high quality service and cost effective solutions on existing buildings and new construction projects.
Our innovative and evolving approach to building science utilizes modern design principals, materials and construction practices that result in building envelope designs that achieve maximum performance, energy efficiency, internal comfort, water proofing, durability and the desired aesthetic appearance.
While maintaining these high performance design standards we never lose sight of the importance of practical construction processes, implementation and the overall buildabilty of our building enclosure designs. This commitment to buildability keeps our projects on budget and schedule. The final results of this approach are high quality and functional structures that have higher life-spans and low maintenance costs.
Our extensive building envelope design experience is focused primarily in the Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley. This is your assurance that we have the local knowledge and ability to work on building projects of all types and sizes throughout this specialized region. Whether the scope of work is a new construction project or remediation of an existing building we offer services for every step of the process, from early design concepts to commissioning and all types of remediation work.
Existing Building Remediation
We provide remediation services to all types of existing buildings, from the largest high rise towers to single family homes. Our full range of building envelope remediation services can bring any structure back to its original lustre and even improve performance and energy efficiency.
Vancouver’s Building Envelope Specialists
With LDR you can ensure that our building envelope services are designed to handle the unique geographical and climate conditions of the Metro Vancouver and Fraser Valley regions.
For over 20 years out team of building envelope professionals has been dedicated to the creation of high performance building enclosures that are suited to the Metro Vancouver region. We take into account the local geology and geography of your project including seismological risks.
The Metro Vancouver region presents is set of unique climate and weather conditions that make the proper water-proofing of structures challenging. The Vancouver region is classified as one of North America’s coolest and wettest regions with extreme annual precipitation measuring over 1500mm per year. (pressure equalized rain screens).
With many years of Vancouver envelope design consulting we have worked with or have experience with most of the regions contractors and construction companies and can help ensure that the right teams are put in place for your buildings’ new construction or remediation project to achieve the desired results on budget and on schedule.
Commercial Building Envelopes
Our experience working with new and existing commercial buildings including high and low rise towers, mixed use buildings and large retail buildings such as malls and department stores gives us the edge in providing superior consulting services for these types of commercial structures.