Mulder Contracting
Renovation Specialists
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Mulder Contracting delivers commercial renovations, tenant improvements, and building envelope work across North Vancouver, Vancouver, and the North Shore. We build for business owners, commercial tenants, landlords, and property managers, on a schedule that keeps your doors open and your revenue running.
Commercial renovation is a different job from residential, and we treat it that way. A house can sit half-finished for a week without costing anyone money. A leased office, a storefront, or a restaurant cannot. Every day your space is out of service is a day of lost revenue, so the plan matters as much as the workmanship.
Mulder Contracting has been building on the North Shore since 2016. Alongside our residential renovation work, we run a commercial side that handles tenant improvements, office and retail renovations, restaurant build-outs, strata common areas, and building envelope restoration throughout North Vancouver, West Vancouver, Vancouver, and Burnaby.
What clients hire us for is the coordination as much as the carpentry: sequencing trades so they are not tripping over each other, keeping permits and inspections moving, respecting the landlord's work letter and building rules, and getting the loud work done when nobody is in the building. You get one point of contact who actually answers the phone, and a schedule you can plan your business around.
From a single-suite refresh to a full-floor tenant improvement, we take on the whole scope, demolition through to final inspection and handover.
Full office tenant improvements and refreshes for tenants, landlords, and owner-occupiers, planned around your lease dates and your staff.
Storefronts and retail units built to your brand standard and turned over ready to merchandise, on the date you committed to.
Hospitality build-outs and remodels where the kitchen, ventilation, and health-authority requirements drive the whole schedule.
Envelope repairs and rehabilitation on commercial and multi-unit buildings, the work that stops the leak instead of hiding it.
Lobby, corridor, amenity, and common-area renovations for strata councils and property managers, staged to keep residents moving.
Commercial washroom renovations and barrier-free upgrades built to current BC Building Code accessibility requirements.
The fastest way to lose money on a commercial renovation is to close the doors longer than you planned. Before we price the job, we work out how much of it can happen while you are still operating and how much has to happen when you are not.
That usually means phasing the work zone by zone, hoarding off the active area with dust and noise control, and pushing demolition, core drilling, and anything that shakes the building into evenings or weekends. If your lease or your landlord restricts work hours, we build the schedule around those restrictions from day one instead of discovering them halfway through.
Commercial permitting is where most renovation schedules quietly fall apart. We start it early and we manage it ourselves, so you are not chasing a city file number between customers.
We coordinate commercial building permits with the City of North Vancouver, the District of North Vancouver, West Vancouver, and the City of Vancouver, plus the separate electrical, plumbing, mechanical, and fire-suppression permits a commercial scope usually triggers. We work to current BC Building Code requirements for occupancy, exiting, fire separations, and accessibility, and we book and attend the inspections.
Where a project needs a design professional, an engineer's letter, or a building envelope consultant, we bring them in and coordinate their scope rather than handing you a list of people to call.
Licensed BC contractor with commercial general liability coverage and active WorkSafeBC registration. Certificates and clearance letters supplied before we mobilize.
You get a named project lead who answers the phone, not a dispatch line. Weekly written updates, and immediate notice if something changes.
Line-by-line pricing with allowances stated up front. Change orders are priced and approved in writing before the work happens.
Our own framing and finishing carpenters, not a rotating cast of subs. It is why the detailing is consistent from the first wall to the last trim.
Work letters, COIs, building access protocols, elevator and loading bay bookings, and after-hours permissions handled without you chasing them.
Every commercial project is backed by our workmanship warranty, and we come back to deal with deficiencies without an argument.
We are based on the North Shore and most of our commercial work sits within a short drive of it, which is how we keep crews on site and response times short.
Our core commercial service area covers North Vancouver, including Lower Lonsdale, Central Lonsdale, Marine Drive, Lynn Valley, Deep Cove, and the Maplewood and Lynnmour light-industrial areas, along with West Vancouver and Ambleside. Across the bridges we take on commercial renovations throughout Vancouver, including Downtown, Gastown, Mount Pleasant, Kitsilano, and the Broadway corridor, plus Burnaby, Coquitlam, Port Moody, and Richmond. We also work up the Sea-to-Sky corridor into Squamish and Whistler for projects that warrant the travel.
Five stages, each with a defined handoff, so you always know what is happening this week and what is happening next.
We walk the space with you, review the lease or work letter, and identify what drives the schedule.
An itemized quote with allowances stated plainly, so you can compare it line for line.
Drawings, permits, trade bookings, insurance certificates, and the agreed work-hours plan.
Phased build with hoarding, site protection, weekly schedule updates, and one point of contact.
Final inspections, deficiency walkthrough, close-out documents, and workmanship warranty.
Yes. Most of our commercial renovations in North Vancouver and Vancouver are phased so the business keeps operating. We hoard off active work areas, run dust and noise control, and schedule the loud or disruptive stages after hours or on weekends. Before we start we agree on a work-hours plan with you and, where applicable, your landlord or property manager.
We do. We coordinate commercial building permits with the City of North Vancouver, District of North Vancouver, West Vancouver, and City of Vancouver, along with the trade permits for electrical, plumbing, and mechanical work. We manage the drawing set, the application, and the inspection schedule so the project does not stall waiting on paperwork.
It depends on the scope, the condition of the existing space, and how much mechanical and electrical work is involved. In Metro Vancouver, office tenant improvements commonly land in the range of roughly $80 to $200 per square foot, retail fit-outs somewhat lower, and restaurant build-outs higher because of kitchen and ventilation requirements. We give you a detailed, itemized quote after a site walkthrough rather than a per-foot guess.
A straightforward office or retail refresh is often three to eight weeks on site. A full tenant improvement with permits, mechanical, and millwork is typically eight to sixteen weeks, and restaurant build-outs run longer. Permit review time is usually the largest variable, which is why we start that process early.
Regularly. We are comfortable working inside landlord work-letter requirements, building rules, elevator and loading bay bookings, insurance certificate requirements, and after-hours access protocols. We can deal directly with the property manager on scheduling and site access so you do not have to be the middleman.
Yes. Mulder Contracting is a licensed BC contractor carrying commercial general liability insurance and active WorkSafeBC coverage. We provide current certificates of insurance and clearance letters before work begins, which most property managers and landlords require.
The building envelope is everything separating the interior from the weather: cladding, windows, doors, roofing junctions, flashings, membranes, and sealants. On the North Shore, wind-driven rain finds every weak point in that assembly. We carry out envelope repairs and restoration on commercial and multi-unit buildings, from targeted leak and rot repairs through to full re-clad and rainscreen work.
North Vancouver, West Vancouver, Vancouver, Burnaby, Coquitlam, Port Moody, Richmond, and the Sea-to-Sky corridor including Squamish and Whistler.
Send us the space, the timeline, and the constraints. We will walk the site and come back with an itemized quote and a schedule you can actually plan around.