Precision, schedule and finish.
Select commercial projects and tenant improvements — retail, office and light industrial — delivered with residential-grade finish discipline and hard deadlines met.
Your opening date is our deadline
Commercial work runs on dates: lease commencements, fixturing windows, opening days. We build backwards from yours — realistic scheduling, long-lead procurement early, and inspections sequenced so occupancy isn't the surprise at the end.
Landlords and tenants alike get one point of accountability, clean sites in operating buildings, and finish quality that shows.
What's included
Everything below is coordinated by one team, under one contract.
- Test-fit & budget validation
- Design & permit coordination
- Landlord & building-rules management
- After-hours work in occupied buildings
- Long-lead procurement
- Milestone schedule with reporting
- Occupancy & final inspections
- Deficiency-free turnover
From first call to keys
Test-Fit FREE
Scope, budget and schedule reality-check.
Permits & Procurement
Approvals filed, long-lead items ordered.
Build-Out
Milestone schedule, clean site, weekly reports.
Occupancy
Inspections passed, space turned over.
Budgets and calendars that hold
Commercial numbers by space type, and the week-by-week calendar we build backwards from your opening date.
Design-build TI vs. bid-and-build
| Armacan design–build | Bid-and-build GC | |
|---|---|---|
| Time to a real price | 2–3 weeks | 2–3 months (after full drawings) |
| Who owns drawing gaps | We do — one contract | You do — via change orders |
| Schedule certainty | Backwards from opening day | Best-efforts after award |
| Long-lead equipment | Ordered at design sign-off | Ordered after award — often late |
| Fit for hard deadlines | Built for them | Fragile under them |
✱ Representative Metro Vancouver planning figures, mid-2026. Your number comes from your lot, your scope and current pricing — confirmed in writing at a free consultation.
Recent commercial projects
Opened on the day it said
“Our clinic opened on the exact date on the schedule they drew in month one. We were booking patients before drywall — that's how sure we were.”
Dr. S. Atwal — Clinic Fit-Out, RichmondWhat you'll leave the first meeting with
- ✓A validated budget per square foot for your actual space
- ✓A week-by-week schedule built backwards from your opening date
- ✓The permit path and landlord-approval plan
- ✓A long-lead equipment list with order-by dates
Reading for tenants & landlords
ProcessCommercial Fit-Out PlaybookOffice, retail, restaurant, clinic — realistic fit-out costs per square foot and a week-by-week timeline.
ContractsFixed Price vs Cost-PlusWhere each contract puts the risk, what change orders should look like, and how draws protect you.
ProcessLot to Keys: the TimelineA realistic 24-month map of a custom build — and the two places schedules actually slip.Common questions
We take select tenant improvements where the scope is meaningful — call us and we'll tell you straight within one conversation.
Yes — after-hours phasing, dust and noise control, and building-management coordination are standard for us.
We do, end-to-end — including the final inspections that let you open on the date on your lease.
Yes — we regularly price and build from franchise packages and third-party architect drawings, or provide full design-build where you need it.
We schedule backwards from it: long-lead equipment ordered at design sign-off, permits and procurement in parallel, weekly look-ahead schedules, and occupancy inspections booked before the paint dries.
Have a space and a date? Let's work backwards from it.
Free test-fit review — scope, budget and schedule in plain English.