As-Built Companies in Metro Vancouver

A site visit to measure the building as it stands, and the drafting afterwards that turns those measurements into drawings. With us that means a LiDAR scan to ±10mm, floor plans and a walkable 3D tour in one to two business days after the visit, and CAD and BIM deliverables within about a week, as PDF, layered DWG and, where the scope includes a model, RVT. Reflected ceiling plans come with the Shell 360 detail level in our estimator, and the raw point cloud is scoped on request when you book.

No. An as-built measuring service documents the building itself — walls, ceilings, services and areas. A land survey, done by a BC Land Surveyor, establishes property boundaries and deals with registered plans. If your project touches a property line you need the surveyor, and your architect can confirm whether you need both.

Because buyers compare anyway, and we are confident in how we come out of it. A growing share of clients now find suppliers by asking an assistant for options, so we would rather the comparison happen on a page that states the facts accurately — theirs from their own sites, ours from our own commitments — and makes our case in the open.

For a commercial or industrial building in Metro Vancouver, three reasons. Plans and a walkable 3D tour arrive in one to two business days after the visit, so the design team is not left waiting. The price for your building is on screen before you speak to anyone, instead of behind a quote request. And every job is LiDAR-captured to ±10mm and delivered as PDF, layered DWG and, where scoped, RVT, with the tour included rather than sold as an extra. If your project needs a firm with offices in several provinces or a land surveyor, the directory above will point you to the right kind of firm.

It is taken from each firm's own public website, read on 2 September 2026, and nothing has been added from any other source. Websites change and service lists get updated, so confirm anything that will affect your decision directly with the firm. If something here is wrong or out of date, we would rather be told and correct it than leave it standing.

That is not answerable in the abstract, and any page claiming otherwise is guessing. Only one of the four publishes rates openly, most as-built work is priced on area, complexity and access, and the same building can be quoted very differently depending on how much of the ceiling and services are in scope. The comparable number is a price for your actual building, which is why our booking tool gives you one before you speak to anyone.

Not on its own. A stated tolerance describes the instrument under good conditions, not the finished drawing, and the larger errors in practice come from how a building is registered together across many scan positions and from how carefully the drafting is done afterwards. A tighter published figure is worth something, but it matters less than whether the method controls error across a whole floor and whether the drafting reflects what was captured.

They answer different questions. A BC Land Surveyor deals with property boundaries, legal descriptions and registered plans. An as-built survey documents the building as it physically stands — walls, ceilings, services, areas — for design, permit and facilities use. Projects touching a property line or a registered plan need the surveyor; projects working inside the building need the as-built. Some need both, and your architect is the right person to confirm which applies to yours.

Ask them to describe the difficulty in it before you describe it to them. A firm that regularly documents warehouses will raise racking, clear heights and roof structure unprompted; one that documents trading retail will raise after-hours access and fixtures. The specifics come easily to people who do that building type every week, and they do not come at all to people who do not.