Burnaby · Since 2001
Epoxy and industrial floor coatings in Burnaby.
Dense commercial and multi-family parkades, including a 50,000 ft² commercial parkade we coated in phases with no full closure.
Burnaby
Phasing at scale
Burnaby has a large stock of four-and-five level commercial and residential parkades, which is where phasing stops being a convenience and becomes the whole problem. One of our Burnaby projects is a 50,000 ft² commercial parkade, coated in phases without ever closing it completely.
That kind of scope lives or dies on sequencing: which levels can be down at once, how traffic moves between them while one is out, where the material and the equipment stage, and how residents find out what is happening and when. We write all of that into the scope rather than working it out on site.
Burnaby's other common job is structural repair on soffits and columns in older parkades, where thirty years of chloride exposure has reached the steel. That work is quoted separately from waterproofing so you can see what is repair and what is prevention.
- Largest project
- 50,000 ft²
- Phases
- 4
- Full closures
- None
Services
What we install in Burnaby
Parkade waterproofing
Traffic-bearing membranes for Burnaby parkades, ramps and roof decks.
Learn more →Local conditions
Burnaby: towers on one side, big floors on the other
Burnaby's concrete lives two lives. Around Metrotown, Brentwood and Lougheed, the tower clusters have stacked thousands of strata units over multi-level parkades — including some of the region's largest single parkade structures — and every one of those membranes is on a depreciation-report clock. Our 50,000 square foot commercial parkade project is a Burnaby job, completed in phases without ever fully closing the parkade, which is the discipline this city's parkade stock demands.
The other life is horizontal: the Big Bend industrial flats along the Fraser, the Lake City and Government Street business parks, and the warehouse and light-industrial corridors off Boundary and Marine Way. These are working floors — distribution, food production, printing, film services — where the questions are forklift abrasion, wash-down chemistry and how much of the floor can come offline at once. Slab-on-grade near the river carries the moisture caveat that any low-lying Fraser-adjacent slab carries: test at depth first, then specify.
SFU's hilltop weather is its own microclimate — more freeze–thaw on Burnaby Mountain than at Metrotown — and exposed decks and walkways up the hill are detailed accordingly.
Where the work is
Parkade phasing and production floors
The Burnaby workload mirrors the city: phased parkade membrane renewals under the tower clusters — the phased 50,000 square foot parkade slab being the documented example of keeping a structure operational throughout — and industrial systems across Big Bend and the business parks, from broadcast epoxy on distribution floors to urethane cement where food production washes down hot. Commercial floors follow the retail concentrations at Metrotown and Brentwood, with overnight sectioning so doors open on time.
The technical detail behind both sides lives on our parkade waterproofing and industrial flooring pages, with the systems compared in the library. Neighbouring New Westminster and Coquitlam are covered on their own pages.
Metrotown parkade in Burnaby, coated in the Kelmar TE system and re-lined with crosswalks, stall and reserved-stall markings.
Canlan Ice Sports in Burnaby, 2015: the concourse ground under dust extraction at night (left), and finished in a 100% solids anti-slip epoxy (right). More on the projects page.
A 20,000 square foot warehouse in Burnaby, 2016: the concrete repair spread across the slab (left), and the floor finished in epoxy and urethane to the mezzanine stair (right). More on the projects page.
A residential building’s parkade in Brentwood, Burnaby, in the Tremco Vulkem 350NF/950NF/950NF system: the grey coat going down over the prepared slab (left), and finished round the columns (right).
The same parkade: the fresh coat across a whole parking level (left), and a finished drive aisle with the coat turned up the walls (right). More on the projects page.
The rooftop customer parkade of a Staples store in Burnaby, 2017, in the Tremco Vulkem 350NF/950NF/951NF system: the old traffic coating being ground off with a PCD grinder under dust extraction (left), and the fresh grey coat by the rooftop units (right). More on the projects page.
The same rooftop finished: the grey coat across the open deck (left), and round a rooftop unit, the SkyTrain passing beyond the parapet (right).
Questions
What Burnaby clients ask us.
We have a large warehouse near Still Creek. What system suits that floor?
For a slab-on-grade warehouse the question is what the floor takes — forklift wheels, pallet impact, chemical spills, dust control — and how much downtime you can accept. Most Burnaby distribution and light-manufacturing floors end up on an epoxy build-up, self-levelling or broadcast depending on whether flatness or slip resistance matters more. We test the slab for moisture first, because older Burnaby industrial slabs often have no vapour barrier under them.
Can you coat a warehouse floor without emptying the building?
Usually yes, by sectioning. We work in bays, keeping racking and traffic aisles operating in the rest of the building, with containment between the working area and the live area. It takes longer than an empty building and it keeps you shipping. What we need from you is a realistic commitment on which sections will actually be cleared on which dates — that is the part that derails these projects.
Our Metrotown-area tower parkade leaks into the units below. Where does that start?
Almost always at a detail rather than in the open field of the deck: a drain that was never properly terminated into, an expansion joint that has given up, a membrane turn-up at a curb or column that was short, or a crack that moved. We trace it before quoting, because replacing an entire membrane when the actual failure is thirty metres of joint detailing is a waste of the corporation's money.
Do you work with Burnaby's mix of strata, institutional and industrial clients?
Yes, and they are genuinely different projects. Strata work is phased around residents and driven by depreciation reports. Institutional work at the campuses runs to tight holiday windows. Industrial work runs around production. The coating chemistry overlaps heavily; the scheduling does not overlap at all.
Site assessments
Have a slab in Burnaby you're worried about?
Photographs and a rough area are enough to start. We'll come out, test moisture, and scope it properly.
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