Structural & civil engineers in New Westminster
MAF Engineering Ltd. provides structural, seismic and civil engineering for homeowners, builders and developers across New Westminster — from character-home renovations up in Queen's Park to mid-rise mixed-use and waterfront infill down by the Quay. Our work is led by a Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) with 25+ years of experience, and every project is delivered with stamped drawings, calculations and the Schedule B and C field review your building-permit submission depends on. Whether you're underpinning an early-1900s house or framing a new transit-oriented building, we design to the current BC Building Code and to this coast's real seismic demands.
Engineering for New Westminster projects
New Westminster is one of Metro Vancouver's oldest and most compact cities, stepping steeply down the north bank of the Fraser River from the Uptown ridge to the Quayside waterfront. That topography shapes the engineering. The upland neighbourhoods hold a dense stock of early-20th-century wood-frame character homes — many in and around the Queen's Park area — that frequently need foundation repair, seismic bracing and careful load-path detailing when they are renovated, lifted or fitted with a secondary suite. Closer to the river, soft Fraser delta soils raise liquefaction and settlement questions that drive deeper foundations and close geotechnical coordination, while the Sapperton, Brewery District and Downtown corridors keep filling in with mid-rise mixed-use and cold-formed-steel framing on tight, sloping infill lots. Across all of it, the region's Cascadia subduction and shallow crustal earthquake hazard makes a robust lateral system central to every design, while the low-elevation snow loads here stay modest compared with BC's interior and mountain communities.
MAF's local project experience includes structural engineering work at the Massey Theatre and the Translink Centre on Southridge Drive.
How we help in New Westminster
- Seismic retrofit of heritage & character homes
- Foundations on soft Fraser waterfront soils
- Mid-rise mixed-use & transit-oriented buildings
- Cold-formed steel framing for tight infill lots
- Permit-ready drawings with Schedule B & C field review