Burnaby crane operator and home builder

Crane work in Burnaby

Tower crane work along the Brentwood corridor and around Metrotown on residential tower projects. Mobile crane work for mid-rise pours in the Edmonds and Burnaby Heights areas, equipment placement on finished commercial buildings, and the steady drip of smaller residential lifts that come with a city densifying around its existing housing stock.

Home building in Burnaby

Custom single-family homes concentrate in the Heights and the Burnaby Lake area — older lots with established trees, meaningful slope, and the soils variation you’d expect from a neighbourhood built in stages over decades. Laneway homes fit some Heights lots well; not all of them, depending on alley access and height-by-grade math.

What’s specific to Burnaby

Permits. Burnaby’s residential permitting is more predictable than Vancouver’s for laneway projects but slower for substantial single-family builds with grading or retaining walls. Build a real timeline buffer in.

Soils. Heights and Burnaby Lake have clay-bearing soils that drain slowly — perimeter drains and damp-proofing on foundations matter more here than they would on sandier ground. See Foundation week: what owners don’t see for what to watch.

Tower-density. A lot of crane work in Burnaby is coordinated around adjacent tower sites — Brentwood has a cluster, Metrotown too. Lift planning around neighbouring cranes and over-occupied airspace is its own discipline; we’ve written about that in The lift plan, in plain language.

Starting a project in Burnaby

We can usually walk a Burnaby site within a week of a first message. The contact page is the route in.