Consilium Architectural Technology provides building design, permit drawings, Ontario Building Code aware review, and consultant coordination for residential, renovation, and small commercial projects.
The focus is straightforward: clear documentation, functional layouts, coordinated information, and support through the permit review process.
Residential projects need drawings that are organized enough for permit review and practical enough for construction. The work may include additions, renovations, secondary suites, garages, accessory buildings, decks, and exterior structures.
The intent is to document what is proposed, identify obvious coordination issues early, and prepare a permit package that can be reviewed without unnecessary confusion.
Good design support is more than drawing walls and rooms. It includes thinking through the Ontario Building Code path, existing conditions, fire separations, stairs, guards, exits, washrooms, accessibility issues, and consultant requirements where applicable.
This approach helps reduce avoidable revisions and gives owners, builders, and consultants a clearer starting point.
Small commercial projects often need more coordination than expected. Restaurant, pub, bar, lounge, and tenant fit-up work can involve layout planning, washrooms, exiting, accessibility, kitchen equipment, ventilation, plumbing, electrical, fire protection, and consultant coordination.
The goal is to refine the space so it works operationally while also producing the information needed for permit submission and review.
As communities look for practical ways to respond to housing demand, additional dwelling units and secondary suites can help create more homes within existing neighbourhoods without losing the character of the property.
Consilium supports these projects with municipal and code-aware design solutions for basement apartments, secondary suites, garden suites, laneway-style dwellings, and additions that increase housing options while respecting permit, servicing, fire separation, exiting, parking, and zoning-related constraints.
Consilium supports property owners, builders, and municipalities as communities move toward gentle densification, secondary suites, and additional dwelling options. These project types can add flexible housing while still requiring careful coordination with zoning, servicing, access, fire separation, exiting, parking, and Ontario Building Code requirements.
Plans, elevations, sections, details, schedules, and supporting notes prepared to describe the proposed work for permit review and construction coordination.
Review of project layout and construction intent to identify common code issues before submission, including items such as exiting, fire separations, stairs, guards, washrooms, accessibility, and occupancy-related considerations where applicable.
Consilium provides design and permit support for projects intended to add housing capacity, including secondary suites, additional dwelling units, garden suites, and additions where municipal requirements and Ontario Building Code compliance need to be coordinated early.
Coordination with structural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire protection, or other consultants where the project scope requires specialized design input.
Assistance responding to plan review comments, revising drawings, clarifying the scope, and keeping the project documentation organized through the approval process.
Discuss the project, property location, proposed scope, timeline, and whether permit drawings or consultant input are likely required.
Review measurements, photos, drawings, site information, existing conditions, and establish what the permit package needs to include.
Refine the layout, coordinate the major building requirements, and organize the information so the project direction is clear.
Prepare the drawing set for submission and support revisions or clarifications requested during review.
Send a short project description, the property location, and any existing information available.
Send Consilium a short description of the work, the property location, and any existing information available. Clear starting information makes it easier to define scope and determine what will be needed.
