Residential Buildings

Modern high-rise buildings with curved balconies, surrounded by trees and parked cars, under a partly cloudy sky.

Reign | Willingdon Development

Chris Dikeakos Architects Inc. with Wesgroup Properties 

This two-phase development in Burnaby consists of two high-rise towers. Tower 1 is thirty five storeys with 260 market residential units and 116 rental units in the podium. Tower 2 is thirty-eight storeys with 357 market residential units. The project includes extensive fitness rooms and indoor/outdoor amenities for residents shared between the two buildings.

McAuley Consulting developed alternative solutions to address the legal agreements required between the two parcels as well as a number of more standard alternative solutions required for typical highrise buildings.

Modern urban apartment buildings with a central walkway and greenery, black and white image.

Comma UniverCity Rental Development

RWA Architecture with Rize Developments 

Comma UniverCity, located at SFU’s Burnaby campus, consists of two six-storey rental residential buildings with 180 suites. An underground parkade connects the buildings. Due to the site's steep slope, McAuley Consulting developed an alternative solution allowing for combustible construction on a structure classified as seven storeys.

Two modern high-rise buildings with balconies in an urban setting, surrounded by trees, cars, and pedestrians.

W 42nd and Alberta Street

RH Architects with Marcon Developments 

This multi-phase residential development includes a 19-storey west tower with 215 studio, one, two, and three-bedroom suites. The building offers fitness rooms and indoor/outdoor amenities on levels five and nineteen, with three levels of underground parking. A second 19-storey tower is a mirror of the first phase staged by approximately 1 year.

McAuley Consulting prepared a number of alternative solutions to address interconnection between the two buildings at level P1 and shared access agreements required for the air space parcel subdivision.

Aerial view of a modern residential complex with multiple multi-story buildings surrounded by green spaces and trees.

BC Research Lot 6

DYS Architecture with UBC Properties Trust

BCR6 is a multi-phase development consisting of two six-storey wood-frame rental buildings for faculty and staff and an 18-storey concrete market rental tower. A childcare facility with outdoor play areas and residential amenities will be integrated into the base of the tower.

Given the scale of the development, McAuley Consulting developed alternative solutions to allow for separation of fire alarm audible zones between buildings and multiple firefighter response points to facilitate response. The building is also on a sloping site which required alternative solution approach to avoid applying all high building measures to the mid-rise buildings.

Black and white image of a modern multi-story apartment building with balconies, surrounded by trees, and a person with a bicycle in the foreground.

BC Research Lot 9

ZGF Architects with UBC Properties Trust

BCR9 is a six-storey rental residential building in UBC Wesbrook Village. The wood-frame structure contains 160 dwelling units above a single-storey parkade. McAuley Consulting worked across multiple development sites, including BCR5 and BCR6, to ensure consistent master plan code compliance.

Modern residential building with large windows, multiple balconies, surrounded by trees and people walking and sitting outside.

W 28th & Willow

SHAPE Architecture + Urbanex Strategies Ltd.

This project consists of five blocks of two-storey townhouses stacked within a four-storey building above a single level of underground parking. Each townhouse includes a rooftop patio, with a shared residential amenity space on level one.

An outdoor roof terrace and courtyard space provides building amenity for the residential occupants. The all residential units are accessed from an exterior passageway that wraps the courtyard providing daylight on a minimum of two sides and cross ventilation.