Bike Friendly Building Consulting

 

Advises Cycling Facilities Design and Equipment for New Developments:

  • Rezoning Applications
  • Development Permit Applications
  • Transit Oriented Developments
  • Bike Friendly Building Certification

 

Recommends and Guides Bike Parking Retrofits for Existing Buildings:

  • Strata and Landlord Owned Residential Buildings
  • Leased and Owned Office Buildings
  • Shopping Malls and Public Institutions

 

The Bike Friendly Building team applies its unique expertise to:

  • Inform all stages of new building developments, in collaboration with architecture and traffic planning consultants.
  • Assess and provide recommendations regarding options and pricing for bike parking and amenities retrofits for existing buildings of all ages and types.
  • Provide detailed specifications regarding equipment selection and siting to inform selection of bike amenities equipment suppliers and installers.
  • Advise bike and e-bike parking design and equipment, access and way-finding, repair stands and bike washing stations, e-charging safety, cycle route connections, and building policies regarding cycling.

 

Past & Current Clients

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The Bike Friendly Buildings Team has…

  • Recommended new approaches to bike parking for three BC Ferries vessel types to increase capacity, allow for seasonal flexibility, and provide better parking support for bikes and safety for cyclists.
  • Informed a bike parking security upgrade project for all of Kwantlen Polytechnic University’s five Lower Mainland campuses.
  • Advised PCI Developments’ building design plans for a Transit Oriented Development project in Moody Centre. 
  • Partnered with a fire safety engineering company to develop a specialized e-bike charging safety design manual for QuadReal Property Group's existing and planned developments across Canada.  
  • Identified options for numerous stratas and property managers to expand bike parking in multiple large residential complexes originally developed in the 1980’s and 1990’s.
  • Advised design, equipment, and policies regarding cycling for the new BC First Nations Health Authority Head Office building on Tsleil Waututh land on the North Shore.       
  • Supported Boffo Properties to develop exemplary cycling facilities for "The Smithe", a “empty nester” residential development in Vancouver Yaletown.  The Smithe received HUB Cycling’s first Platinum Bike Friendly Building certification. See video of their completed facilities.
  • Informed cycling facilities design for the early planning stages of major new residential developments for Bosa, PC Urban, QuadReal, and Intracorp. 
  • Completed Bike Friendly Building analyses of Vancouver General Hospital and Children’s and Women’s Hospital buildings to increase cycling among their employees. 
  • Worked with Perkins and Will Architects to advise StreetWorks Developments on design for the redevelopment of Vancouver’s historic downtown Hudson’s Bay Company building , to include a two-floor active transportation (AT).
  • Provided specialized expertise for all stages of Hudson Pacific Properties’ addition of world-class cycling facilities to Bentall Centre.  See video of the completed retrofit.
  • Advised cycling facilities initial design and retrofits for numerous existing and planned Concert Properties buildings. 

 

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