Surrey’s growth story has a ventilation footnote: every new tower and townhome built to modern code arrives with more ventilation equipment than the housing it replaced — suite HRVs, boosted dryer runs, engineered bathroom exhaust. All of it works beautifully at occupancy, and all of it needs scheduled maintenance to keep working. Buildings that set up a maintenance program in their first years avoid the deferred-maintenance cliff that older stock is now climbing out of.
Surrey Centre’s high-rise cluster is a few years behind Metrotown on the same curve, which makes this the right moment for councils there to establish baseline documentation and a recurring schedule. Across the rest of the city, townhome complexes dominate — and strata-coordinated programs dominate the economics.
White Rock adds a distinct profile: older low-rise apartments near the water, where salt air and weather exposure are hard on exterior terminations and rooftop components. For these buildings we pay particular attention to the exterior envelope points during service, and document their condition for council planning.