About the Service
A custom home is not a floor plan you pick from a catalogue. It starts with your lot and how you actually live, and everything after that is a series of decisions about how those two things fit together.
Nexvan is a BC Housing licensed builder based on East 14th Street in North Vancouver, and a member of HAVAN, RenoMark and the CHBA. We handle design coordination, permits and construction, so you deal with one team from the first lot review to the final walkthrough.
What building custom with us involves:
1. What Your Lot Will Actually Allow
Before design starts, we review zoning, setbacks, floor space ratio, height limits and what the site itself will carry. Two lots on the same street can allow very different homes.
On the North Shore this usually means slope, soil conditions, tree retention, view corridors and drainage. Knowing all of it early is what keeps a design from being redrawn after it has already been priced.
2. Designing for How You Live on the North Shore
Our design team works from how your household actually moves through a day. Where the light lands in winter, where the wet gear goes, how the kitchen connects to everything else.
North Shore homes carry specific demands. Oversized entry storage for bikes and gear, covered outdoor space that works in November, and glazing placed for both view and heat gain.
3. Building for Coastal Rain and Sloped Sites
The building envelope is where homes on this coast succeed or fail. Rainscreen assemblies, flashing details, drainage planes and continuous insulation get the same attention as anything you can see.
Sloped lots add retaining, shoring and drainage engineering. Every new home also has to meet the BC Energy Step Code, which means energy modelling before the permit goes in, not after.
4. One Team from First Sketch to Final Walkthrough
Design, estimating, permitting and construction sit under one roof. The person pricing the drawings is the same person who will build them, so the budget and the design stay honest with each other.
The alternative is designing first and pricing later, which is how most homeowners find out their drawings cost double what they planned.
5. Fixed Price or Open Book, You Choose
If your drawings are complete and you want cost certainty, we build under a fixed price contract and carry the risk on the number.
If the design is still moving or the site is complex, construction management gives you open book costs and every trade quote, with the cost risk sitting on your side. We will tell you which one fits your project.
6. Licensed, Warrantied and Inspected
Nexvan holds BC Housing Residential Builder Licence No. [LICENCE NUMBER] and carries active WorkSafeBC coverage.
Every new home is enrolled in BC’s 2-5-10 warranty before construction starts. Two years on materials and labour, five on the building envelope, ten on the structure.
Where we build. Lynn Valley, Edgemont, Deep Cove, Lonsdale, Upper Lonsdale, Blueridge and Capilano, across both the City and the District of North Vancouver, plus West Vancouver and the wider Lower Mainland.
