unbelievably enhanced.” As
a partner in one of Toronto’s
largest structural engineering
firms, Paul relishes the role of
the firm as a major provider
of structural design for de-
velopers, both in the city and
across Canada.
“We are one of the compa-
nies that [does] an enormous
amount of the residential de-
velopment, condo develop-
ment, and rental development
in Toronto. As well, we have
done numerous outstand-
ing commercial buildings.
We have done so many shop-
ping centers I would challenge
anybody who would [claim
to] have a bigger portfolio in
shopping centers [than us].
We have done huge shopping
centers in cities like Winnipeg
Montreal, and in Toronto, etc.
We did some health facili-
ties and we do an enormous
amount of long-term care fa-
cilities.”
Born in Prague, Paul has no-
ticed a clear dissimilarity be-
tween Canadian and interna-
tional markets. The difference,
he says, is the workload and
the cost of doing business.
“When you are designing away
from the North American en-
vironment you are required [to
produce] substantially more
design work and produce
more drawings, which are
totally unnecessary in Cana-
dian environments. But at the
same time the fees are about
4x as big as in this country, so
you will be compensated for
[your extra work]. But at the
same time it is very difficult
to get your payments for your
fees outside of the country,
so I would say that we haven’t
been engaged too much out-
side of the country. We had a
few projects [outside of the
country]. One was in Prague,
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