Construction Project Management in Langley

Randy Ferchoff started in the trades at 13, worked as an assistant site supervisor and then a site supervisor on multi-family construction projects, and later led a new division developing seniors' care homes, from construction and design through to full facility operations, eventually as its general manager. As your project manager, he runs the schedule and the trades and assigns the site supervision.

Derek Ferchoff, our Job Site Supervisor, supervises our sites day to day. He came to construction through woodworking, and he is the one clients name for the detail work.

Abel Strujenco, our founder, holds the builder's licence the work runs under.

Langley is two municipalities, the Township of Langley and the City of Langley, and each runs its own inspections. In the Township, the first inspection comes before any construction starts, to check the waste containers, the tree protection fencing and the siltation control. The business licence of the contractor or trade goes in with every Township inspection request, and a building cannot be occupied until it has passed its final inspection and the Township has issued written occupancy authorization.

In the City, residential inspections run from the forms and the service connection before backfill through rough plumbing, the slab and framing to final, and every contractor and trade on the job needs a valid City business licence.

An owner builder in BC builds a new home under an Owner Builder Authorization from BC Housing instead of a builder's licence and home warranty insurance, and has to build or directly manage the construction themselves. Under BC Housing's Regulatory Bulletin 25, an owner builder who hires a builder, construction manager or project manager to perform those functions is in breach of their declaration, and the Registrar can cancel the authorization of an owner builder who does not engage in, arrange for or manage all or substantially all of the construction.

Whoever arranges for or manages all or substantially all of the construction of a new home, an owner-built one included, is acting as a general contractor. That person has to be a licensed residential builder and provide third-party home warranty insurance, and no agreement with the owner can waive it. An unlicensed builder hired to run the job can face penalties of up to $25,000, and if the authorization is cancelled and the home has no home warranty insurance, it cannot be legally sold or offered for sale within 10 years of first occupancy.

BC Housing advises owner builders to either manage their own construction or hire a licensed residential builder to build the home with home warranty insurance. ProStyle Construction Ltd. is a licensed residential builder, and every new home we build carries Travelers 2-5-10 home warranty.