Bike Friendly Building Consulting
Our consulting and certification team helps developers, property managers, employers, and other stakeholders create bike-friendly buildings that welcome employees, customers, and communities.
As Metro Vancouver’s only organization of and for urban cyclists, with broad-ranging activities and engagement about all aspects of cycling for Active Transportation, HUB Cycling is uniquely knowledgeable about what makes for a positive cyclist experience when approaching and interacting with major property developments.
We can advise your new build at every stage, ensuring that for people coming and going by bike, on-site communications, interactions with other building users, bike storage, personal safety, and sense of respect and well-being are all positive experiences that keep them riding. We have already advised medium-sized and major developments now in the works in the region, ensuring these new urban fixtures serve their users well into the future as urban transportation evolves.
To learn more about HUB Cycling's Bike Friendly Building Consulting services, contact bfb@hubcycling.ca or:
What We Do
- Provide detailed specifications regarding equipment selection and siting to inform selection of bike amenities equipment suppliers and installers.
- Advise bike and e-bike parking design and equipment, access and way-finding, security and safety, gear storage and change room facilities, repair stands and bike washing stations, e-charging, cycle route connections, and building policies regarding cycling.
- Complete specialized projects related to buildings and cycling.
Past and Current Clients
We work with businesses and governments alike. Below are some of past and current partners.
Notable Projects
Project Highlights
- Informed a bike parking security upgrade project for all of Kwantlen Polytechnic University’s five Lower Mainland campuses.
- Advised PCI Developments’ building design plans for a Transit Oriented Development project in Moody Centre.
- Partnered with a fire safety engineering company to develop a specialized e-bike charging safety design manual for QuadReal Property Group's existing and planned developments across Canada.
- Identified options for numerous stratas and property managers to expand bike parking in multiple large residential complexes originally developed in the 1980’s and 1990’s.
- Advised design, equipment, and policies regarding cycling for the new BC First Nations Health Authority Head Office building on Tsleil Waututh land on the North Shore.
- Supported Boffo Properties to develop exemplary cycling facilities for "The Smithe", a “empty nester” residential development in Vancouver Yaletown. The Smithe received HUB Cycling’s first Platinum Bike Friendly Building certification. See video of their completed facilities.
- Informed cycling facilities design for the early planning stages of major new residential developments for Bosa, PC Urban, QuadReal, and Intracorp.
- Completed Bike Friendly Building analyses of Vancouver General Hospital and Children’s and Women’s Hospital buildings to increase cycling among their employees.
- Worked with Perkins and Will Architects to advise StreetWorks Developments on design for the redevelopment of Vancouver’s historic downtown Hudson’s Bay Company building , to include a two-floor active transportation (AT).
- Provided specialized expertise for all stages of Hudson Pacific Properties’ addition of world-class cycling facilities to Bentall Centre. See video of the completed retrofit.
- Advised cycling facilities initial design and retrofits for numerous existing and planned Concert Properties buildings.
