British Columbia · ICI Construction
Aiycon Builders is an AI-first general contracting and construction management firm for British Columbia's institutional, commercial, and industrial owners. A governed AI layer does the heavy lifting behind every estimate, schedule, and record. Every number is grounded. A person decides.
The build is the product. AI serves the estimate, the schedule, the record, and the crew on the floor. It never substitutes for construction judgment, and when the two collide, construction judgment wins.
The promise to clients is only as good as the people who keep it. Our AI makes skilled people more valuable, not replaceable. Profit funds the mission; it is not the mission.
A number and a date an owner can build a business decision on. Estimates carry stated accuracy bands. Schedules carry their risks by name.
Much of our work happens in occupied buildings. Every worker holds stop-work authority. The record, not the slogan, carries the claim.
RFIs numbered, single-question, drawing-referenced. Change orders signed before the work proceeds. In BC, the paper is also lien law.
Every draft grounds in a canonical record. When a conversation and the record disagree, the record wins until a person corrects the record.
Estimates take weeks and still miss. Information dies between the field and the office. The same question gets asked on the tenth project as on the first. Closeouts trail off for a year while the warranty clock runs. Every point of that drag lands somewhere real: an owner's budget, a tenant's schedule, a tradesperson's weekend, and the cost of building anything in this country.
We exist to take that drag out of construction, to optimize the standards this industry has proven, to invent methods where it has settled, and to show, project by project, what the sector gains when the waste goes.
Aiycon runs on a governed AI operating layer. Quantities extend against unit rates by computation. Schedule dates derive from durations and logic, working-day aware. Drafts ground themselves in the canonical company record before a word is written, and deterministic guardrails block excluded scope and off-brand language before a human ever reviews.
Then a person reviews, and a person releases. That is the whole arrangement: the machine absorbs the drudgery, the professional keeps the judgment, and the record keeps everyone honest. It is why a lean team of senior people delivers at a scope, speed, and rigor that conventionally staffed firms cannot match.
Every output cites canonical records: contacts, contracts, rates, project histories.
Deterministic guardrails screen every draft before human review. Excluded scope cannot pass.
Nothing external leaves by a machine's hand. A named person decides every release.
Fixed-fee planning with stated accuracy bands. Computed take-offs mean the estimate arrives in days, not weeks, and holds through delivery.
Stipulated price delivery under CCDC 2. The owner buys a number; we own the performance risk.
CM at fee under CCDC 5B. Open books, our machinery, the owner's contracts.
One contract, one accountable party, from concept through occupancy.
Fit-outs and floor renewals, usually in occupied buildings, phased so tenants keep working.
Small works at published charge-out rates. The crews stay close to your asset between projects.
Your side of the table: capital planning, procurement strategy, delivery-model advice, and project oversight from a bench that has sat there.
Scope honesty: we do not perform hazardous materials abatement, civil or heavy infrastructure, or single-family residential work. Where those surface, we help the owner engage the right specialist directly.
Our craft is building around people: tenants above the demolition floor, guests one wing from the work, staff and public inside operating institutional buildings. Phased turnover, separated circulation, after-hours noise work, and communication that reaches the occupants before the noise does.
Work reaches us two ways: relationship and referral engagements, where the record earns the next project, and open-tender public and private competitions, where our cost structure lets us compete credibly without buying the work.
Selected engagements delivered by Aiycon's principals across their careers: as owners, as advisors, and as builders. References available on request.
Three decades of infrastructure advisory, project management, and capital delivery on the owner's side of the table. As Manager of Capital Projects at Camosun College she delivered a $69M LEED Gold facility from the owner's chair; as Associate Director at Colliers Project Leaders she led multi-disciplinary advisory teams for municipalities, post-secondary institutions, and regional districts across Canada. Founder of Amephire Consulting, Aiycon's owner-side advisory partner.
A builder's career from the ground up: site labour and heavy equipment in the Canadian oil sands, then multimillion-dollar commercial contracts as a general contractor's project manager, including phased renovation inside the operational Vancouver Island Regional Correctional Centre and secure federal work for the Department of National Defence. Founder of Aiyarise Intelligence, the AI governance consultancy for Canada's AEC sector, and the architect of Aiycon's operating layer.
Behind them, a bench of construction managers and AI technologists spanning project management, architectural design, general contracting, asset management, capital projects, and owner's side representation.
We didn't start Aiycon because construction needed more technology. We started it because the people who carry this industry deserve better tools, and the owners who fund it deserve better odds.
The machine takes the drudgery. The professional keeps the judgment. The record keeps us honest. That is the whole arrangement, and we will show it to anyone who asks.
If you are building something in British Columbia and you want the number to hold, come see how this feels from the client's chair.
Tell us what you are trying to build, buy, or fix. We will come back with how we would approach it, what it would take, and what we would refuse to promise. The positioning is the easy part; the grounding is the product.
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