About Us

Who we are

Using our God-given talents to serve others and make our communities better places to live.

About Cornerstone

Our Values & Structure

Committed to Your Success

Open Communication

Regular and transparent communication is vital to deliver collaborative structural solutions that result in successful construction projects. Our team puts the success of your project first by listening and understanding your objectives to develop solutions that maximize your asset's potential and integrate effectively with architectural designs.

Creative Solutions

Our solution-oriented staff knows the value of starting off on the right foot in the early design phases. Accounting for project goals, architectural vision, cost-effectiveness, and alignment with building systems, we generate options for you to choose how we can best serve you.

Tailored Services

No two jobs are the same, and no service packages should be either. Cornerstone offers flexibility in services and fees to align with project needs, budgets, and desired outcomes. With extensive experience supporting developer and architect clients, we understand your business goals and customize our services accordingly to add as much value as possible.

Industry-Leading Strategies

Maximizing the potential of your asset

We maximize your asset's value through revenue and cost-optimized designs. Aesthetic architectural design is critical to project success, and we endeavour to bring your architectural vision to reality. We understand your desire for efficient quality and revenue-generating spaces and we deliver exactly that.

Efficient Designs

Extensive experience with detailed structural quantity investigations has refined our understanding of efficient structural quantity metrics and targets, from individual elements to complete structural systems. Determining and tracking structural quantities is embedded throughout our design procedures, allowing us to assess the efficiency of various designs and provide quantity estimates for you to compare.

Your success comes first

We believe in prioritizing the needs of others ahead of our own. This mindset allows us to truly listen and understand our client’s objectives, so we can develop solutions to maximize the asset’s potential and integrate effectively with architecture.

We humbly pursue excellence

Our desire to serve our clients as best as we can, pushes us to pursue excellence and the ever-moving target of best practice. It requires humility to say that there is always room for improvement.

Private Sector Oriented

We have extensive experience working with developer clients. Many of our clients consider us trusted partners and give us the honour of repeated business. It is our goal to understand their businesses so that we can align our services and provide as much value as we can.

Creatively applied technology

Our goal is to continue to provide excellent value and service to our clients. This means staying on top of industry best practices and technology. Technology advancement isn’t a goal in itself, but a means to provide better structural and geotechnical engineering solutions leading to greater project success. Innovative technology is useless without innovative and creative thinking.

Cornerstone Values

Excellence

Our desire to serve our clients as best as we can pushes us to humbly pursue excellence and the ever-moving target of best practice.

Service

We believe in prioritizing the needs of others ahead of our own. This mindset allows us to truly listen and understand our client’s objectives.

Creativity

Our creative minds leverage new technology to continuously innovate and stay on the cutting edge of the engineering industry.

Serving Others

This is our mission

“My goal is to provide a high level of service and to support the success of our clients and their projects.
I try to develop an understanding of the project’s goals and constraints through a collaborative
approach. I can then create tailored and optimized solutions and help realize the asset’s full potential.”

– Ryan Voros, Principal

Ryan is the founding Principal at Cornerstone. With over 15 years of structural engineering experience in design and construction administration. His portfolio includes successful projects from across Canada, spanning multiple sectors, and with budgets exceeding $800 million. Cost optimization of concrete residential high-rises is an area of special interest for Ryan, and the highlight of his master’s thesis. Specialties:
  • Design of reinforced concrete, post-tensioned concrete, wood frame, and structural steel construction
  • Cost optimization of concrete structures
  • Technical and value engineering peer reviews
Ryan is proficient in the design of reinforced concrete, post-tensioned concrete, wood frame, and structural steel construction. He focuses on providing value based, collaborative, and cost-effective solutions throughout the design process and during construction. He has done extensive investigations into cost optimization of concrete structures and frequently speaks on the topic. Due to his expertise, he is also often hired for technical and value engineering peer reviews.

His education includes a Master’s Degree from UBC where his research concentrated on the best practices in the structural design of concrete high-rise buildings. He completed his Bachelor’s Degree at the University of Waterloo and his Diploma of Engineering Technology at BCIT.

 

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Our Experienced Team Operates Across Canada