# Design Consultation

> Pest-aware drawing review and pre-occupancy inspection in Calgary. Close the cavity before it becomes habitat.

Canonical: https://www.frameworkpest.ca/services/design-consultation/
Last updated: 2026-11-02

Prevention at the drawing board

Review drawings and retrofits before occupancy.

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The discipline

The cheapest exclusion is the one drawn correctly. We sit with architects, developers, and envelope consultants to review detailing that will otherwise become habitat: loading docks, rain screens, waste rooms, and green roofs.

The cheapest exclusion is the one that is drawn. A decorative screen without mesh, a dock pit without a spec, a waste room that shares a chase with suites, those are design choices. We would rather catch them in CAD than in a complaint file.

## What’s included

- Drawing and specification review
- Pre-occupancy and commissioning inspections
- Retrofit advice for chronic buildings
- Coordination with envelope and mechanical consultants
- Constructability notes that trades can actually build

Who it’s for

Architects, developers, envelope consultants, and owners about to occupy or retrofit.

Timing

Drawing review in days. Commissioning inspections booked to your occupancy date.

Also in the method

- [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.
- [Monitoring Programs](https://www.frameworkpest.ca/services/monitoring-programs/)
  Inspection schedule and reporting a property manager can use.

How the work runs

## Four movements, applied to this discipline.

1. 01
  ### Read the set
  Docks, rain screens, waste rooms, green roofs, mechanical penetrations, the details biology will use.
2. 02
  ### Mark the habitat
  Notes trades can actually build. Not a novel. A redline.
3. 03
  ### Commission
  Pre-occupancy walk: did the screen get installed, did the sweep meet the slab, did the weep get a baffle.
4. 04
  ### Handoff
  A maintenance note for the people who will own the building after the ribbon.

You leave with

## A file, not a fog of product names.

- Drawing / spec review memo
- Constructability notes
- Pre-occupancy punch related to pest pathways
- Coordination with envelope and mechanical
- Optional monitoring architecture for year one

Sectors that use this

[Commercial Real Estate](https://www.frameworkpest.ca/industries/commercial/) [Industrial & Warehousing](https://www.frameworkpest.ca/industries/industrial/) [Civic & Education](https://www.frameworkpest.ca/industries/civic/)

Questions

## About this discipline

### When should you join a project?

Design development or early construction documents. Commissioning-only is still useful; it is more expensive than a redline.

### Do you work outside Calgary?

Drawing review can. Site commissioning is Calgary-region first; Alberta by arrangement.