Structural & civil engineers in Surrey
MAF Engineering Ltd. provides structural, seismic and civil engineering for the owners, developers, architects and contractors building across Surrey. Our BC-registered Professional Engineer brings more than 25 years of experience to everything from five- and six-storey wood-frame multi-family and cold-formed steel mid-rise to tilt-up industrial, foundations and machinery supports. We prepare sealed drawings and Schedule B and C letters of assurance and carry out field reviews to keep your Surrey building-permit process moving.
Engineering for Surrey projects
Surrey spans two very different ground conditions that shape how buildings are engineered here. Much of the city sits on firm glacial-till uplands — Guildford, Fleetwood, Newton and the Cloverdale ridge — while the low-lying flats along the Fraser River, Serpentine and Nicomekl (Bridgeview, Port Kells, South Newton) are soft delta and alluvial soils that can be prone to liquefaction in a major earthquake. Because the south coast of BC is a genuinely high-seismic region exposed to the Cascadia subduction zone, seismic design and close geotechnical coordination matter as much as gravity loads — especially for the wood-frame multi-family and concrete-podium projects filling in Surrey City Centre, Whalley and the expanding SkyTrain corridors. Add tilt-up warehouses in Campbell Heights and Port Kells, agricultural and light-industrial buildings on ALR lands around Cloverdale, and single-family and small-commercial work across South Surrey, and the result is a broad mix of structure types all designed to the current BC Building Code.
How we help in Surrey
- Seismic design & retrofit for liquefaction-prone delta soils
- Mid-rise wood-frame & concrete-podium multi-family
- Cold-formed steel (CFS/LSF) framing
- Tilt-up & industrial structures for Campbell Heights and Port Kells
- Foundations plus Schedule B/C letters of assurance and field review