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GBA Philosophy

GBA is committed to providing the highest level of service to the building design and management community. Our goal is to assist owners, designers, managers, and other stakeholders in the development of innovative designs which will achieve a level of fire protection, life safety, and security that meets, or exceeds, the requirements mandated by the current building and fire codes and criminal threat levels.

The key to the success of Gage-Babcock and Associates Ltd. lies in the satisfaction of our clients. GBA strives to provide prompt, efficient, goal-oriented service to all of our clientele, with particular emphasis on the quality of work that we produce.

GBA Services

GBA staff provide expert consulting and designs in the following specific areas:

  • Building Code
  • Alternative Solution Development
  • Certified Professional (CP)
  • Fire Alarm Systems
  • Fire Sprinkler Systems
  • Clean Agent and other Special Suppression Systems
  • Detection and Suppression Releasing Systems
  • Independent Professional (Third Party) Design Reviews
  • Objective Based Design Justification
  • Fire Growth and Smoke Spread Modeling
  • Litigation Support and Expert Witness
  • Security and Life Safety Reconciliation
  • Security Electronics and Hardware Coordination
  • Security Systems
  • Resistance to Forced Entry
  • Fire & Life Safety Plans and Fire Operations Manuals

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