An AI-first construction management firm for institutional, commercial, and industrial owners across British Columbia. The number holds.
Every project is a flood of drawings, prices, schedules, submittals, and opinions. AI reads all of it, all the time. It surfaces in minutes what a team would need weeks to find, and a person decides what to do about it.
The stakes are national. Construction is one of Canada's largest industries, and the decade ahead is asking it to build more than it ever has. Close even part of the gap below and the whole country feels it.
Aiycon Builders Ltd. is an owner-side construction management firm based in Victoria, British Columbia, serving institutional, commercial, and industrial owners across Vancouver Island and the province. We act as the owner's agent and fiduciary, at a stated fee, with open books, and we never bid on the work we advise. The machinery is AI-first; the decisions are human.
A number and a date you can take to a board.
Signed before work proceeds. In BC, the paper is lien law.
Costs, bids, and decisions visible in full.
Every draft grounds in the record. A person corrects it.
Owners remember three things: whether the number held, whether the building kept working, and whether the paper was complete when the keys came back. Our principals have spent three decades earning those memories, on both sides of the table.
Aiycon is new, and we say so plainly. The record below belongs to our principals' careers. The company adds the operating layer that carries it further.
Seven ways to carry a mandate, from the first business case to the last year of an asset's life. Fee for service, stated up front.
Your office for the life of a project, procurement through closeout, under a duty of care to you alone.
The serviceAgency CM at fee. You hold the contracts; we administer them as your agent, with open books.
The serviceBusiness cases, feasibility studies, and delivery strategy a board can defend.
The serviceRFQs, RFPs, and tenders: run, levelled, and recommended on your authority.
The serviceChanges signed before work proceeds, payments certified, holdback on the statutory clock.
The serviceCondition, renewal, and funding plans that keep buildings earning their keep.
The serviceTroubled projects and stalled capital: audited, restructured, brought back to plan.
The serviceScope honesty: we are not architects or engineers. Design and construction stay with the firms best placed to carry them, procured and administered on your behalf.
Concrete, steel, aluminum, glass · the materials change; the duty doesn't
A building runs for decades; construction is only its first few years. We plan the whole life. The engagements are named in the record below.
Portfolio strategy, condition assessment, and funding plans a council or board can adopt.
Renewal ahead of failure, planned and priced before it becomes an emergency.
Troubled projects and stalled assets: audited, re-baselined, brought back to plan.
Our craft is stewarding work around people: tenants above the demolition floor, staff and public inside operating buildings. Phasing, circulation, and after-hours work are planned into the contracts we administer, and the communication reaches the occupants before the noise does.
Selected engagements delivered by Aiycon's principals across their careers: as owners, as advisors, and as builders. References available on request.
Building · the oldest craft we have
Principal advisor · owner's side
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. Principal of Amephire Consulting, Aiycon's owner-side advisory partner.
Founder · President & CEO
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 and the architect of Aiycon's operating layer.
Founded and scaled his own construction company; owner's representative to Vancouver Island Regional Libraries; $15M+ projects across industrial, civil, and commercial work. Dip. Architectural Technology, BCIT.
Seventeen years directing global supply chain operations across 40+ countries, with senior systems roles at Daimler Trucks North America. MBA, Willamette University.
Senior facilities and capital-projects leader with public-sector delivery across Vancouver Island, from planning and procurement through occupancy. Advises through Amephire Consulting.
Underneath the conventional discipline, a governed AI operating layer carries the load: drafts ground themselves in the record, schedules compute from durations and logic, and deterministic guardrails screen every document before a human reviews. Nothing external leaves by a machine's hand.
Roughly one in ten Canadian construction firms actually uses AI today (KPMG Canada / CCA, 2025). Turner Construction reports 4 to 5 hours saved per person per week across 11,000 staff (company-reported). Owners deserve the same class of intelligence, and our work is to shepherd it into this industry's conventions.
Every output cites canonical records: contacts, contracts, rates, histories.
Deterministic guardrails screen every draft before human review.
A named person decides every release. Every time.
We didn't start Aiycon because construction needed more technology. We started it because the owners who fund this industry deserve better odds, and the people who carry it deserve better tools.
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 owner's chair.
Tell us what you are trying to plan, buy, build, or fix. We will come back with how we would approach it, what it would take, and what we would refuse to promise.
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