VanPlex Plexperts · BC Multiplex Engineer
Read Jones Christoffersen (RJC) Engineers
Featured on VanPlex Plexperts — the curated directory of BC multiplex engineers & site.
Structural Engineering · Building Science, Read Jones Christoffersen Ltd.
Structural engineering firm that started in Vancouver in 1948.
RJC was founded in Vancouver by John Read, Peter Jones, and Per Christoffersen. It is employee-owned and now has offices across Canada. The Vancouver structural team is led by Managing Principal Jeff Corbett, P.Eng.
1948
Founded in Vancouver
10+
Offices across Canada
Employee
Owned by staff
Meet Read Jones Christoffersen (RJC) Engineers
Read Jones Christoffersen (RJC) is a structural engineering and building science firm. It was founded in 1948 in Vancouver by John Read, Peter Jones, and Per Christoffersen, starting in a small sublet office.
The firm is employee-owned. It has grown from that one Vancouver office to offices in major cities across Canada, including Victoria, Nanaimo, Kelowna, Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto, Ottawa, Kitchener, Kingston, and Montreal.
RJC does structural engineering, building science, structural restoration, parking facility design, and building energy modelling. The work runs from custom homes through mid-rise multi-family buildings.
The Vancouver office is at 1285 West Broadway, Suite 300. The structural team there is led by Managing Principal Jeff Corbett, P.Eng., who also leads the Kelowna structural team. Corbett is a UBC graduate, a Fellow of Engineers Canada, and a former member of the Vancouver Urban Design Panel.
Credentials
Recognition
Fellow, Engineers Canada (FEC) — Jeff Corbett
Why work with RJC
01
Multi-family and mid-rise experience
RJC works across the range from custom homes to mid-rise multi-family buildings. That matters for a multiplex that pushes past four units or crosses into Part 3 of the building code, where the structural rules change.
02
Building science under one roof
The firm does building science alongside structural work — envelope, moisture, and energy modelling. On a multiplex that can mean one consultant covering structure and envelope instead of coordinating two separate firms.
03
Local leadership, national bench
Jeff Corbett leads the Vancouver structural team and stays involved in his projects start to finish. Behind him sits a firm with offices across the country if a project needs extra depth.
Built work
The Post
Vancouver, BC
Major Vancouver redevelopment; structural project led by Jeff Corbett.
Abbotsford Law Courts
Abbotsford, BC
New courthouse building, structural work by Corbett at RJC.
One Water
Kelowna, BC
Tallest building in BC’s Okanagan region; structural project by Corbett.
Frequently asked questions
Does RJC handle small multiplex projects, or only large buildings?
Can one firm cover both the structure and the building envelope?
Who leads the Vancouver structural team?
Other engineers & site
ARG Energy
NRCan-registered Energy Advisor run by Ross Gordon, PhD. Does EnerGuide evaluations, BC Step Code and Vancouver Energy Checklist compliance, and blower door testing across Greater Vancouver and the Sunshine Coast.
Diamond Head Consulting
Vancouver environmental consulting firm founded in 2001. The team includes ISA Certified Arborists, professional foresters, biologists, and GIS staff who write the tree surveys and tree protection plans a development permit needs.
GeoPacific Consultants
Vancouver geotechnical firm founded in 1985, now 200 staff across six offices with a testing lab and 20,000+ completed projects.
Are you Read Jones Christoffersen (RJC) Engineers? Submit corrections