Design Build Services (DBS) is continuing to monitor the COVID-19 situation. DBS is relying on the guidance from the BC Centre for Disease Control and is following directives from WorkSafeBC and the Government of British Columbia to keep our worksites and community safe and healthy. DBS has implemented a work […]

Name a carbon capture technology that is fully proven, used the world over, pumps out oxygen, and improves your wellbeing at the same time? There’s only one answer: trees.  READ MORE

Changes to Canada’s national building code could prove promising for an ailing forestry industry. Starting in 2020, the national building code of Canada will allow for mass timber buildings to be constructed across the country. Currently, buildings made of wood are only allowed to stand six storeys high. After the […]

A groundbreaking was held on Wednesday, Oct. 23  for a first-of-its-kind, 12-storey tall wooden mixed-use building in Langford. READ THE FULL ARTICLE

For us the name Terminus was inspired by the idea of crossroads and junctions, a place where the stories of people, businesses, and ideas begin. It’s a place that’s close to home. While travelling in Europe our Design Build Services family found rail terminals that connected cities, towns, and even […]

Trees are some of our best allies in solving the climate crisis. “One study conducted by researchers in British Columbia found that building a five-story office building with wood had less than a third of the global warming impact when compared with a steel and concrete building of the same size.” READ THE FULL ARTICLE