ARCHITECTURAL SUPPORT
Knowledgeable Support
In addition to engineering and planning services, IDEA Group provides civil engineering design services that are necessary to support the activities of local and regional architectural firms. Our services are provided by a trained and experienced staff of surveyors, civil engineers, and planners, in conjunction with other registered professionals. These primary practice networks are complemented by in-house expertise in specialized service areas such as landscape and urban design, construction inspection, modeling, graphics and 3-D imaging. We use a common sense approach to finding solutions that fit the situation, meet the objectives, and are affordable and sustainable over the long term.
Architectural Support Experience
- Site design & development
- Landscape design
- Engineering design, review and verification
- Highway/roadway design
- Parking lot design
- Computer-aided drafting and design (CADD)
- Dynamic 3D design models (Civil 3D)
- Value engineering studies
- Final plans, specifications and estimates
- Construction management
- Property development evaluations
- Determination of site suitability for commercial or industrial uses
- Analyses of:
- Topography
- Utilities
- Transportation needs
- Environmental issues that affect suitability for commercial or industrial uses
- Land development plans, design of:
- Industrial parks
- Industrial sites
- Commercial facilities
- Educational facilities
- Project site and architecture renderings and schematics
- Conceptual drawings of proposed projects:
- New construction
- Renovations
- Expansions
- Graphics for promotional or marketing purposes
- Technical engineering reports for project evaluations and feasibility studies
- Project site land use and zoning evaluations
- Preliminary site inspections and site assessments
- Preliminary site work construction cost judgments
Representative projects:
- Shepard Regional Centre – Calgary, AB
- Canadian Tire – various locations in Alberta