# Commercial Real Estate

> Office, retail, and mixed-use envelopes under prairie weather, tenant turnover, and dock traffic. We protect the asset and the brand of the people who occupy it

Canonical: https://www.frameworkpest.ca/industries/commercial/
Last updated: 2026-11-02

Industries

Office, retail, and mixed-use envelopes under prairie weather, tenant turnover, and dock traffic. We protect the asset and the brand of the people who occupy it.

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The envelope in this sector

Tenants notice mice before they notice a dock seal. We survey the envelope the asset manager is actually responsible for, docks, waste, cladding, and the suite that keeps calling.

Calgary office and retail fail where the prairie climate meets the loading bay. We write programs that asset managers can file and that tenants never have to see, unless the file is what keeps them.

## How we work here

- Dock and waste-room exclusion
- Tenant-complaint triage that maps to a joint
- A file the board can read
- One spec across mixed-use and suburban retail

Usual disciplines

- [Structural Assessment](https://www.frameworkpest.ca/services/structural-assessment/)
  We walk the building and list how pests are getting in.
- [Exclusion Engineering](https://www.frameworkpest.ca/services/exclusion-engineering/)
  Screens, seals, and hardware that hold up to prairie weather.
- [Portfolio Stewardship](https://www.frameworkpest.ca/services/portfolio-stewardship/)
  Seasonal or quarterly visits for houses and multi-site accounts. Written scope.

Other envelopes

- [Multi-Residential](https://www.frameworkpest.ca/industries/multi-residential/)
- [Healthcare & Labs](https://www.frameworkpest.ca/industries/healthcare/)
- [Food & Hospitality](https://www.frameworkpest.ca/industries/food-hospitality/)
- [Industrial & Warehousing](https://www.frameworkpest.ca/industries/industrial/)
- [Civic & Education](https://www.frameworkpest.ca/industries/civic/)

Where it actually fails

## Challenges we write programs around.

### Docks and parkades

Levellers heave. Seals tear. Mice treat the pit as a lobby.

### Tenant turnover

Complaints become a leasing problem before they become a biology problem.

### Rain-screen cavities

New cladding that looks tight from Stephen Avenue and remains hollow behind.

### Assemblies we photograph first

- Dock levellers and seals
- Parkade pipe sleeves
- Waste rooms
- Grade weeps
- Mechanical penthouses

Questions

## Sector questions

### Can you work without disrupting a tower?

Yes. Most envelope work is exterior, dock, and after-hours mechanical. Interior intervention is scheduled with property management.