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Upward Construction - North Shore Custom Home Builder & Renovator North Shore custom home builder and renovator known for daily-log transparency — you see your project every day. See the work → upwardconstruction.ca

Building on the North Shore since 2002 · 3,500+ homes. Let us help you build your dream home. We have been working with homeowners on the North Shore for over a decade and integrity is the foundation of our business.

10/09/2026

Before the walls go up, this is the work nobody posts.

The crane lifting framing into place. The crew checking each connection before it gets signed off. The material close-ups, the grain in the timber, the weld on a steel connector, that never make it into a finished-home photo but decide how the home holds up over time.

Every custom build on the North Shore starts here, not at the ribbon cutting.

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Five thousand square feet. Sentinel Hill, West Vancouver. Clients in California for most of the build.The brief was a ho...
10/09/2026

Five thousand square feet. Sentinel Hill, West Vancouver. Clients in California for most of the build.

The brief was a home that felt like California living but belonged completely to BC.

A 30-foot NanaWall opens the entire main floor. Indoors and outdoors become one space when it is open. When it is closed, the room still reads exactly as it should.

Two years. Recognised by the CHBA National Awards for Housing Excellence, the Georgie Awards, and HAVAN.

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Saturday, eleven in the morning. Someone answers.Much of the anxiety during a renovation comes from the silence between ...
10/07/2026

Saturday, eleven in the morning. Someone answers.

Much of the anxiety during a renovation comes from the silence between updates. The days when you do not know whether anything happened, and there is nobody to ask until Monday.

Consistent availability makes every other promise checkable.

Kitchen remodelling on the North Shore runs for weeks. The questions do not keep office hours.

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10/06/2026

This is what happens before anyone sees a finished floor.

On the Loraine project on the North Shore, the existing portion of the home sits higher than where the new structure is going, so the foundation had to solve that first. Grade beams pick up the shear walls and point-load onto pads, bringing the new foundation up to match the existing elevation exactly.

Electrical and drainage run underneath the subfloor before it closes. Ledgers bolt onto the foundation, joists hang from those. Nothing gets covered until it is done right.

Behind the property, a creek runs between two lots. Working with a geotechnical engineer and Diamond Head Environmental, a live MSE wall is going in to retain the slope and protect the creek, permanently.

This is the kind of detail that separates a custom home builder on the North Shore from a standard build, and it is exactly what to ask about before hiring one. It is also the part most homeowners never see.

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A custom home goes far beyond better finishes.Every decision is made for one household. The ceiling height in the primar...
10/05/2026

A custom home goes far beyond better finishes.

Every decision is made for one household. The ceiling height in the primary bedroom. The way the kitchen faces the garden. The structural choice that puts a wall exactly where you want it.

Yours.

It starts with a site that has to be understood before anything is drawn.

A terrain with bedrock. An orientation that captures morning light in one room and evening light in another. A view that determines where the living room sits.

That decision shapes the kitchen. And then the rest of the floor plan.

A custom home builder in Vancouver who has done this before knows which small decisions carry the biggest consequences. The decisions that cost far less to make early than to change after the walls are up.

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One name. One number. The same person from the first drawing to the final walkthrough.You always know who to call and wh...
10/03/2026

One name. One number. The same person from the first drawing to the final walkthrough.

You always know who to call and who has the file.

Your dedicated project manager coordinates the trades, runs the weekly meeting, and knows the answer when you ask.

Continuity matters on a project that runs for months. It is the difference between staying informed and having to manage the process yourself.

Home builders on the North Shore are judged on the finish. Clients remember the communication.

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10/02/2026

Every day on your project gets written down. Here is what today's log looks like.

What was done. Who was on site. What was delivered. What is waiting on something else. Photographs where they matter.

The record is made that day, while the details are still exact.

A contractor on the North Shore who writes it down daily is a contractor you never have to chase for an update.

If you're planning a build or renovation on the North Shore, start at upwardconstruction.ca

Where renovation budgets actually move, and where they should not.They move at three points. Really, only three.Discover...
10/02/2026

Where renovation budgets actually move, and where they should not.

They move at three points. Really, only three.

Discovery. What is behind the walls.

Older homes on the North Shore hold surprises: knob-and-tube wiring, undersized framing, water damage nobody could have seen. These are genuine cost changes. They are why a contingency exists.

Selections. Tile, fixtures, cabinetry, appliances.

This is the point homeowners control completely, and in practice, it moves budgets more than anything else. The gap between a sensible specification and an expensive one is often wider than most people expect before they start choosing.

Scope. Deciding partway through to do the ensuite as well.

Entirely legitimate. It needs to be priced and agreed before the additional work begins.

Where a budget should never move: labour rates changing mid-project, required work appearing as an extra, or a low initial quote being corrected after the project starts.

If you are planning a home renovation in West Vancouver, start by having the site properly assessed before you commit.

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A variance is what happens when the wall comes off and the building is not what the drawings said. Here is exactly what ...
09/30/2026

A variance is what happens when the wall comes off and the building is not what the drawings said.

Here is exactly what happens next.

1. Work stops on that item. Not the whole project — the specific item. Everything else keeps moving.

2. We photograph and document what we found before anything changes. That record goes to you the same day.

3. We price the options. There is often more than one way to solve the problem, and they cost different amounts. You see all of them, with what each one does to the schedule.

4. You decide. Nothing proceeds until you have chosen and signed off in writing.

5. The change order goes into the daily log with the revised cost and date. Your budget updates on screen. You are never working from a number that is out of date.

What does not happen: work continuing while a cost is unresolved, a decision made on your behalf because it was quicker, or a figure appearing for the first time on a final invoice.

Most of the horror stories people bring to a first meeting about a home renovation on the North Shore come down to this one process being absent.

It is not complicated. It just has to exist before you need it.

Ask any builder you are considering to walk you through their variance process. The answer tells you most of what you need to know.

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Want the work finished by spring? The permit clock starts now.A kitchen or bathroom runs eight to sixteen weeks from per...
09/28/2026

Want the work finished by spring? The permit clock starts now.

A kitchen or bathroom runs eight to sixteen weeks from permit approval. But approval is not where the planning begins.

Design decisions, drawings and the application all come first.

Start the conversation in September and there is more room to plan for spring. Wait until February, and the permit process may push the work much later into the year.

A renovation contractor on the North Shore should account for permitting before giving you a finish date.

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101-1305 Welch Street
North Vancouver, BC
V7P1B3

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Monday 8am - 5pm
Tuesday 8am - 5pm
Wednesday 8am - 5pm
Thursday 8am - 5pm
Friday 8am - 5pm

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