News & Events

• May 14, 2012
• Gulf Island Residence
• Parallel Structural Engineering is proud to have been a part of the team providing services for this prestigious residential project, designed by Rural/Urban/Fantasy (RUF) and completed in the fall of 2011. With elegance and simplicity in form the main living spaces soar over the landscape and the engineered solution lets the house appear to float in its beautiful, natural setting. www.canadianarchitect.com/news/float-planes/1001127938/?type=Print%20Archives

• May 11, 2012
• New leader in our residential group
• We are happy to announce that Ryan Goes has joined Parallel Group and is heading up our residential projects team. Ryan brings to the office many years of experience on a wide variety of commercial, institutional and residential projects and has experience providing services in all phases of a project from conceptual design right through to construction administration.

• May 10, 2012
• Growth in our Structural Engineering department
• Our structural engineering department has grown and now has an E.I.T. - Reza KJan, as well as a full time structural technologist, William Doka, focused on our full service within the structural engineering practice.

• May 10, 2012
• Parallel joins the Ride to Conquer Cancer for BC Cancer Foundation
• This year, Malcolm and Ryan at Parallel will be participating in the Ride to Conquer Cancer, and are raising funds for the BC Cancer Foundation. Last year this event raised a total of $11.1 Million, the largest single fundraising event in BC history! Thank you to all of our corporate and individual sponsors for supporting us in the epic event. www.conquercancer.ca

• March 11, 2011
• Parallel with Maple Leaf Foods wins CANstruction Award
• For the third year Parallel has participated in the CANstruction event taking place at the Vancouver Convention Center. This year we paired with Maple Leaf Foods, who generously provided all the cans for our structure as well as some enthusiastic builders.
  
  We are happy to announce that our structure, titled "Future CANsportation", won the Graphic Designer's Choice Award. This is our third award since joining the event in 2009.
  
  We would like to extend our thanks to Maple Leaf Foods for their sponsorship.

2006

• June 16, 2006
• Parallel increases registered AT count
• Another Parallel AT Services Inc. staff member was admitted as an AIBC Architectural Technologist. Parallel now has four ATs and one intern.

• April 01, 2006
• Contributing to AIBC
• Malcolm Cairns is elected Chair of the AIBC Architectural Technologists Admissions Committee.

• January 01, 2006
• Preparing for Growth
• Parallel.AT Services Inc., the leader in providing architectural technologist services to the architectural industry, including designers, developers, builders and home owners, announced changes to it's corporate structure to allow for future expansion.
  
  Parallel Group Operations Inc., has been set up to allow for integration of new services and divisions to serve our clients. Our goal is to have multiple companies sharing common goals, standards, ethics, space and ownership.
  
  Each division will be able to provide independent services to a project, or where the situation arises we can offer an integrated group of services, thereby providing additional benefits to our clients.