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McShane Construction
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Stick + Mass Timber + Prefab Framing, McShane Construction
Framing for multi-family, three ways.
Orion McShane runs a Richmond framing crew with 30 years of carpentry behind it. They do stick, mass timber, and prefab for apartments, condos, and townhomes across Metro Vancouver.
30 yrs
Carpentry experience
3
Framing methods (stick, mass timber, prefab)
Up to 4/yr
Sponsored home-repair contracts
Meet McShane Construction
McShane Construction is a framing contractor based in Richmond, BC, run by Orion McShane. The crew has 30 years of carpentry experience and frames multi-family residential buildings — apartments, condos, and townhomes — across Metro Vancouver.
They work in three methods. Stick framing for standard wood-frame multi-family and commercial buildings. Mass timber, where the load-bearing structure is solid or engineered wood instead of steel and concrete. And prefab, where walls, floors, and roof sections are built on tables off-site or on-site and then installed, which usually cuts both time and cost.
Past jobs include projects on Rupert Street, in Langley, in Coquitlam, on 56th Street in Surrey, and in North Vancouver. The company serves Richmond, Vancouver, North Vancouver, Coquitlam, Langley, and Surrey.
McShane sponsors up to four contracts a year at no charge for community members who need home repairs.
Why work with McShane
01
Built for multi-family wood frame
Vancouver multiplexes are wood-frame buildings. McShane frames apartments, condos, and townhomes as their main work, not single-family custom homes, so the crew is set up for repeat unit layouts and party walls.
02
Three methods, one crew
Stick, mass timber, and prefab are all in-house. That means the framing approach can match the project — conventional stick for a standard six-plex, prefab panels to compress the schedule, or mass timber where the design calls for exposed wood structure.
03
Prefab to shorten the schedule
Wall, floor, and roof sections built on tables and installed on-site reduce time exposed to weather and usually lower cost. That matters on a small infill lot where every week of framing time runs up financing.
Built work
Rupert Street
4205 Rupert Street, Vancouver
Multi-family framing project.
56th Street
Surrey, BC
Multi-family framing project.
Langley
Langley, BC
Multi-family framing project.
Coquitlam
Coquitlam, BC
Multi-family framing project.
North Vancouver
North Vancouver, BC
Multi-family framing project.
Frequently asked questions
Does McShane frame small multiplexes, or only large multi-family buildings?
What is the difference between their stick, prefab, and mass timber framing?
Where does McShane work?
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