By Perry King
Since receiving a LEED gold award for their work on a design
build job in Metro Vancouver, Dual Mechanical Ltd. has been
on a roll, opening the doors for more design build projects
than done in the past.
Ever since John Collett started working on plumbing and heat-
ing jobs out of his basement in 1978, Dual Mechanical has
become humbly successful at providing high-quality crafts-
manship for their projects. Taking on industrial and commer-
cial projects in 1981, the company has not turned back.
“We’ve had people call and congratulate us, things like that,”
says Jason Collett, John’s son and the company’s vice presi-
dent. “Have I seen a direct relationship to it yet? Not that I
know of, but we are getting a lot more calls for projects,
especially design build jobs, that we normally didn’t get be-
fore.”
That project, their catalyst for the latest wave of success,
came from a design build located at the Annacis Island Wa-
ter Treatment Centre. Competing with two other companies
to retain the project, Dual Mechanical’s plans for the Annacis
Centre for Research and Education peaked the attention of
the metro government.
“Our team won [the bid] partially based on our design, and
like any design build job, budget is always a concern,” says
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