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BUILD IT By Design BUILD IT is a full service general construction company. built to higher standards.

Over the last decade, we've helped hundreds of world-class brands and businesses build iconic destinations that match their mission. BUILD IT By Design is a full service general contractor providing a one-stop turnkey solution for our clients. Speed, quality, value and flexibility are at the forefront of all our customers’ needs. Whether it’s repurposing an existing space, retrofits or new construction, we manage all aspects of your construction projects – from the design stage through construction and the final finish prior to turning over your space.

Most emergency clinics take the animal through a door and ask the owner to wait. This one was built to keep them togethe...
10/13/2026

Most emergency clinics take the animal through a door and ask the owner to wait. This one was built to keep them together.

Etobicoke runs on an open-concept model, so the build had to support it. Treatment tables on an open floor rather than behind closed doors, seating in the middle of the room, and sightlines that let staff work at speed with people standing right there.

That is a harder plan than it looks. Everything a team needs within reach, clear circulation around every table, and a space that still feels calm for someone having the worst night of their year.

What that adds up to is a place where nobody has to sit in a corridor wondering what is happening.

Grateful for all the spaces we’ve built, and everyone who built them with us.Since 2008, our work has taken us from hote...
10/12/2026

Grateful for all the spaces we’ve built, and everyone who built them with us.

Since 2008, our work has taken us from hotels and neighbourhood restaurants to clinics, offices, showrooms and everything in between. No two projects have been the same, but every one of them came together because of the people behind it: our team in the office and on site, the trades who bring the details to life, and the clients who trust us with their spaces.

You’re what made BUILD IT what it is today.

Happy Thanksgiving!

When a client names their clinic after the change they want to make, the build has to back it up.Era Vet came from two f...
10/09/2026

When a client names their clinic after the change they want to make, the build has to back it up.

Era Vet came from two founders aiming at a new era in veterinary care, and that intent showed up in the drawings rather than just the branding. Fear Free design principles, dedicated Cat Friendly zones, and a structural flow aligned with Senior Dog Veterinary Society guidance, all delivered inside an ordinary commercial unit in southwest Calgary.

The result is a clinic that treats the animal as the main character, which is what the founders set out to build in the first place.

Every renovation starts with a question nobody enjoys answering: what stays? Here the answer was the structure and not ...
10/07/2026

Every renovation starts with a question nobody enjoys answering: what stays?

Here the answer was the structure and not much else. The envelope came off, the glazing went, the roof was redone, and a new entrance was formed, all built back around a frame that was already standing.

Doing that beside a working mall entrance meant the fence line, the deliveries and the noisy work all had to be planned around people who were only there to shop.

What they walk past now gives away none of it.

Project Complete: Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge, Jasper, AlbertaFairmont Jasper Park Lodge has been making memories for gen...
10/05/2026

Project Complete: Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge, Jasper, Alberta

Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge has been making memories for generations. We’re honoured to have been part of its renovation, from the main lodge arrival to the expanded patio overlooking Lac Beauvert and the Rockies.

A huge congratulations to Oxford Properties Group, Fairmont Hotels & Resorts, and every partner involved in bringing this vision to life!

EDG Hospitality Design + Branding Frank Architecture + Interiors

There is something satisfying about a corner of a building that has looked the same for decades finally changing.The fir...
10/03/2026

There is something satisfying about a corner of a building that has looked the same for decades finally changing.

The first frame is the original brick elevation. The last is the same corner today. In between came the part nobody photographs: stripping the existing skin back to structure, sheathing, rebuilding the exterior wall, and forming two new shopfronts where there had been solid brick, all while the mall traded as normal.

Hillcrest now has an entrance corner that works as a destination instead of a way in. Two tenants opening onto it, and glazing that gives the street something to look at.

Scarborough, something fast is on the way 🏁We’re gearing up for a new project with a whole lot of room to move and a bra...
10/02/2026

Scarborough, something fast is on the way 🏁

We’re gearing up for a new project with a whole lot of room to move and a brand that brings serious energy. It’s going to be a lot of fun to build, and we’re bringing you along for the ride.

Keep your eyes on this one!

10/01/2026

Now Open: Era Vet, Calgary

The name says it. A new era in veterinary care, and it showed up in the decisions. Less clinical, less corporate, more thoughtfully designed around pets and the people who care for them.

Congratulations to Dr. Catherine (Caitlyn) Krolik, Sebastian Krolik and the Era Vet team on opening the doors at Springborough Blvd SW, and thanks to PLANIMAL and JR Mercantile Real Estate for getting there with us!

Most construction photography is taken standing up, but this one is worth seeing from above.From the air, this Shoppers ...
09/30/2026

Most construction photography is taken standing up, but this one is worth seeing from above.

From the air, this Shoppers Drug Mart in Dunnville reads like a plan drawing coming to life. First a graded rectangle with the parking layout scratched into the dirt. Then a white roof with mechanical units set out across it. Then cars in the spaces and a lot that fills and empties all day.

What you cannot see from up there is the part that took the longest. Servicing, drainage, foundations and the traffic flow decisions made before a single wall went up.

Swipe through from open ground to opening day.

A good retail building disappears into its neighbourhood almost immediately.Within a month of opening, nobody remembers ...
09/29/2026

A good retail building disappears into its neighbourhood almost immediately.

Within a month of opening, nobody remembers the site being anything else. That is the goal, and it takes more than a facade to get there. Servicing, grading, parking flow, the shell, the entry sequence and a national brand standard that has to be matched down to the detail.

Four Ontario projects, four different brands, four towns where a plaza corner now looks like it was always meant to be that way.

Swipe through. You have likely pulled into at least one of these.

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