Framing A Luxury Custom Home In The Lower Mainland

Luxury custom home at the wood framing stage on a Lower Mainland lot with large openings and complex geometry

Framing a luxury custom home in the Lower Mainland usually means more than basic rough framing. It often includes larger engineered spans, more structural coordination around glazing and open spaces, tighter layout tolerances, more deliberate wet-weather protection, and cleaner sequencing so the frame stays accurate all the way into finishes. Much of this comes down…

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How BC Seismic Zones Shape Framing For Custom Homes

Wood-framed custom home under construction in BC showing the structural framing package shaped by seismic design

When people say “BC seismic zones,” they usually mean the level of earthquake demand a home needs to be framed for. In current practice, that conversation is not really about reading a broad zone off a small map. Earthquakes Canada’s national seismic hazard maps are not intended to be read for individual sites, and the…

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