Moody yards 3 buildings 190,000 sq ft

Scope

  • Wood frame install (labour)
  • Crane Operator and Rigger

Challenges

  • Multiple cranes with overlapping zones
  • Small unloading zone
  • large project at various levels of completion

Successes

  • 6th project for this developer
  • Schedule 
  • Clean, organized, safe and productive site

Stride is our 3rd school project and 12th project for this GC. With a continued and successful partnership, we look forward to the future with this GC. 

Stride Elementary

Scope

  • Wood Frame install (labour)
  • Full material supply package – Hold down system, EWP, Dimensional lumber and sheathing, Hardware

Challenges

  • Three contractors on one scope. – Glu-lam supply and install, CLT supply and install, Framing supply and install
  • Complex build
  • Heavy structural details

Successes

  • Afs was lead design team, providing CAD files and overlaying/cross referencing CLT and glulam shop drawings to ensure all off site fabrication worked together.
  • Pushing the schedule
  • Site organization and cleanliness

Stride is our 3rd school project and 12th project for this GC. With a continued and successful partnership, we look forward to the future with this GC.

Lynn living – 48 unit townhouse development

Scope

  • Wood frame install (labour)
  • Crane supply
  • Crane Operator and Rigger

Challenges

  • Location is in North Vancouver
  • Tight site with challenging crane set up location and obstacles
  • Material laydown space

Successes

  • 5th project for this developer
  • Great team effort 
  • Good management of multiple buildings going at once including the scheduling of various inspections

Lynn towns is the second wood frame phase on this project. AFS has a long standing relationship with this developer and anticipates continuing to strengthen this relationship further on phase 3


Oxford

Scope

  • Wood frame install (labour)
  • Full material supply package – Hold down system, EWP, Dimensional lumber and sheathing, Hardware
  • Concrete Formwork
  • Crane supply
  • Crane Operator and Rigger

Challenges

  • Location (North Van)
  • CLT integrated firewall
  • Logistics

Successes

  • First CLT supply and install
  • Schedule was kept in general conformance despite unavoidable delays (consultants)
  • AFS Full scope

Oxford has been a great 1st project for an experienced General Contractor that has given us the opportunity to prove ourselves. We appreciate the opportunity and look forward to working together again soon.


UBC Two building 280,000 sq ft 6 storey

Scope

  • Wood Frame install (labour)
  • Full material supply package – Hold down system, EWP, Dimensional lumber and sheathing, Hardware

Challenges

  • Location is in UBC
  • intense Engineering
  • Project size. Phase 1 and 2 combined is approx 280,000 sq ft

Successes

  • Completion of phase 1 was 3 weeks ahead of schedule. 
  • Awarding of phase 2

UBC was an excellent project with an organized GC. Workers on site peaked at over 60 AFS personnel. I would highly recommend doing work with Ventana Construction and look forward to future partnerships.



Bailey 60,000 sq ft 6 storey

Scope

  • Wood frame install (labour)
  • Operator and Rigger

Challenges

  • Location
  • Tight site
  • First project with our new Forman Matt

Successes

  • Matt killed it!
  • Quality and schedule were great
  • First job with P.E.T.

Bailey was the third project with this developer (if we count the one in Calgary 18 years ago). Happy to be working with them again and looking forward to our 3rd build in BC.

ACE

Scope

  • Formwork
  • Wood frame install (labour)
  • Crane supply 
  • Operator and Rigger
  • Partial material supply

Challenges

  • Incredibly tight site
  • Crane Erection
  • Technical build 

Successes

  • Great design
  • Organized 
  • Full scope

Working at Ace and getting to know the team for this developer has been great! We look forward to the next opportunity.