GBA Philosophy
We are committed to providing the highest level of service to the design community. Our goal is to assist designers and other stakeholders in the development of innovative designs which will achieve a level of fire, life safety and security that meets, or exceeds, the expectations of our society as mandated by the current building and fire codes.
We believe that the key to the success of our firm lies in the satisfaction of our clients. We strive to provide prompt and efficient service to all of our clientele, with particular emphasis on the quality of work that we produce.
Gage-Babcock & Associates Ltd. provides professional consulting engineering services in the field of fire safety, life safety and security for the building design and construction industry. Our team of technical staff provides advice and design consulting to architects, designers, owners and developers to ensure that a building design will achieve compliance with the intent of the appropriate building and fire codes while preserving the functional requirements of the space.
GBA Services
GBA staff provide expert consulting and designs in the following specific areas:
- Building Code consulting
- Code Equivalency development
- Fire growth and smoke spread modelling
- Objective Based design justification
- Certified Professional services
- Independent Professional design reviews
- Sprinkler system design
- Fire alarm design
- Security consulting
- Litigation support and expert witness
UBC Projects
GBA has been retained as the primary ‘Coordinating Code Consultant’ to perform independent third party design and field reviews for new UBC projects exceeding $1.5 Million in value.
There are a series of building permit and occupancy permit application forms that have been made available for project applicants. These forms identify the documentation that needs to be submitted to UBC in support of an application for a building permit or for an occupancy permit. These forms are now available in pdf format and can be downloaded from this website.
Any questions regarding the use of the forms should be directed to
Forms can be found at: UBC Coordinating Code Consultants
