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Krahn Group of Companies
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Engineering, Architecture, Project Management, Krahn Group of Companies
Four disciplines, one firm.
Krahn started in 1984 and now groups four companies — KP Architecture, Krahn Engineering, KD Mechanical Consultants, and KM Civil Consultants — under one name. For a multiplex owner, that means one team handles the architecture, structure, site servicing, and mechanical instead of hiring and coordinating four separate consultants.
1984
Year founded
4
In-house disciplines (architecture, structural, civil, mechanical)
4
Offices (Abbotsford, Vancouver, Edmonton, Toronto)
51-200
Employees (per LinkedIn)
Meet Krahn Group of Companies
Krahn Group of Companies is a multi-discipline engineering and design firm that started in 1984. It is built from four sister companies — KP Architecture Ltd., Krahn Engineering Ltd., KD Mechanical Consultants Ltd., and KM Civil Consultants Ltd. — that work as one group. The head office is in Abbotsford, with a Vancouver office at #110 - 2920 Virtual Way.
The firm covers building design (architecture), structural engineering, civil engineering, and mechanical engineering. Because all of these sit inside one company, a developer can hire a single team for the drawings, the structure, the site servicing, and the mechanical systems rather than managing four separate contracts and chasing coordination between them.
On the structural side, Krahn Engineering works in wood frame, cast-in-place concrete, structural steel, tilt-up, precast, and pre-engineered buildings. For residential and multi-family work, they name wood-frame apartment buildings and townhomes specifically, and they also handle seismic assessments and upgrades — relevant for owners reworking an older home into a multiplex.
Krahn has offices in BC, Alberta, and Ontario (Abbotsford, Vancouver, Edmonton, and Toronto). LinkedIn lists the firm at 51 to 200 employees.
Credentials
Why work with Krahn
01
One contract instead of four
Architecture, structure, civil servicing, and mechanical all sit inside Krahn. A multiplex owner can run the whole design side through one firm rather than hiring and coordinating separate consultants, which removes a lot of the back-and-forth between disciplines.
02
Wood-frame multi-family is named work
Krahn Engineering lists residential wood-frame apartment buildings and townhomes as project types it handles, along with concrete and steel. That maps directly to the wood-frame multiplex most Vancouver lots support.
03
Seismic upgrades on older homes
They offer seismic assessments and upgrades. If a multiplex project keeps or extends an existing older house instead of building new, that structural review is part of what they do.
Frequently asked questions
Can Krahn handle both the architecture and the engineering for my multiplex?
Do they work on wood-frame buildings, or only concrete and steel?
Where are they located?
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