ALAYANDesign-Build Inc.
A finished basement can be a family room, an office, a guest suite or a secondary unit. We design it to the Ontario Building Code and prepare the permit drawings.
Layouts around the stairs, mechanical room, structure and windows you already have.
Ceiling heights, window sizes and exits checked against the code from the start.
Everything your municipality needs to review a basement renovation.
Consultation and site information review, layouts and design options, design development in 3D, Ontario Building Code (Part 9) analysis, sealed permit drawings, submission to your municipality and responses to its review comments.
Three packages: Design, Design & Permit, and Design, Permit & 3D Access. Compare the packages.
Stand-in images: your own project photos replace these in Admin → Pages.
An indicative range for your project, from the same rates as our packages.
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Answer a few quick visual questions about your project and get your recommended package and the right consultation.
We talk through your goals, your property and your budget, online, at our office or on site.
You get the scope, the package and the fee in writing, and accept it online when you're ready.
Concept options, layouts and design development, reviewed with you in 3D.
Ontario Building Code (Part 9) analysis and a complete permit drawing package.
We submit to your municipality and respond to its review comments.
Every project starts with a consultation. Cancel at least 48 hours before a paid consultation and within 15 days of payment for a 75% refund, or move it to a new time free of charge. Your fee for the design is set out in a written proposal before any work starts, and you accept it online only when you're ready. Unless your proposal says otherwise, a cancellation requested within 15 days of payment receives a 75% refund of the amount paid for work not yet started.
Often, yes: for example when you add rooms, change plumbing, add or enlarge windows, or create a secondary unit. Rules differ by municipality; we confirm what yours requires at the consultation.
Many can, as an additional residential unit, subject to your municipality's zoning and the building code. See our additional residential units page.
No. Alayan Design-Build Inc. provides BCIN small building design and permit services only. Construction, contracting and site supervision are not included, so you're free to choose your own builder.
Part 9 of the Ontario Building Code covers houses and small buildings: up to 3 storeys and up to 600 m² of building area, for uses such as homes, offices, shops and low-hazard workshops. That's the work we design and prepare permits for.
No. Building permit fees, development charges and fees from other agencies are paid to them directly. Packages with permit drawings include a permit administration fee of 5% of the municipal permit fees, invoiced once those fees are known.
Our work stays within the scope of a BCIN-qualified designer for small buildings under the Ontario Building Code (Part 9): design, code analysis and permit drawings. If your project also needs another professional, such as a structural engineer or a surveyor, you retain them directly; coordinating other professionals isn't part of our services.