Cunliffe & Associates is a structural engineering firm formed in 1989 that focuses on buildings while specializing in bringing architects’ visions to life in a pragmatic and fiscally responsible manner.
You can rely on our team to deliver the experience, motivation and resources to provide the most effective structural design for your project. Trusted both locally and globally, we are experts in the design of a broad range of commercial, residential, recreational and educational building structures.
Our commercial projects have ranged from low-rise manufacturing and high-tech office buildings to a major hotel and convention centre overseas. Retail complexes include the shops on Tenth Line, Kanata West, Riverview in Kingston and Kanata Eagleson. Our senior living projects include long-term care facilities; Amica Westboro and Glebe, the Grove in Renfrew, St. Patrick’s. High rise residential includes the Soho condominiums at Parkdale, Champagne and Italia, the Charlesfort’s Hudson Park, The Gardens, Continental & The Merit condominiums, Rio Can’s Frontier, Elmvale Acres, Westgate and soon Lincoln Fields. We continue to provide structural engineering services to multiple school boards in Ottawa and the greater area. Designing over 30 new schools and hundreds of additions and renovations in Eastern Ontario. Our institutional clients also include private schools, college, and university authorities. Our commercial buildings are comprise numerous of buildings in Kanata Research Park including Alcatel, Stealth, and Nokia buildings, and the four commercial towers of the Blackwood Centre, plus the Merivale campus of JDS Uniphase and its tenant fit-up for the new Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) National Headquarters. Our portfolio includes both post-disaster buildings and blast resistant design.
Cunliffe & Associates is a long trusted and dedicated partner for continued structural design and guidance. Our relationship with projects like the Kanata Research Park has spanned more than thirty years and thirty projects. Cunliffe & Associates is a highly respected and highly relied upon on structural engineering firm. We enjoy an excellent partnership with many architectural, and development firms in Ottawa and the surrounding areas.
We are fully equipped with the latest structural design software, including BIM Revit, an integrated and object-based software that allows all disciplines to compare drawing components, increasing our efficiency and accuracy resulting in economic designs. Computer modeling and dynamic and static analysis of structures under wind and earthquake loading is carried out using state-of-the-art CSI ETABS software, recognized as a world standard.
To meet the needs of the numerous property management companies in the area as well as large organizations, we have expanded our services to include structural building assessment & condition reviews for existing structures. Clients for such services have included the University of Ottawa, Carleton University, Algonquin College, the Federal Government & the City of Ottawa. These services are continually provided to ensure the structural integrity of our city’s buildings, to maintained them in safe working condition for years to come.
Awards & Recognition
City of Ottawa Urban Design – Salvation Army Grace Manor – Urban Infill – 2005
Canadian Wood Council Winner – Beechwood National Memorial Centre – Institutional Wood Design (Less than $10M) 2009
Canadian Wood Council Winner – Nepean Sailing Club 1989
City of Ottawa Urban Design – Central Archives & Material Centre – Public Places & Spaces – 2011
Ontario Masonry Award – Schools – Longfields Davidson Heights Secondary School – 2010
Ontario Masonry Award – Commercial – The Marshes Golf Club Clubhouse (Honourable Mention)
Ontario Masonry Award – Residential High Rise – Anglin Bay Developments, Kingston (Honourable Mention)
Ontario Concrete Award – 2017 Institutional building – Broadview Public School featuring tilt-up construction
City of Ottawa Urban Design – Winston Plaza – Public Places & Spaces – 2015
City of Ottawa Urban Design – ByWard Market George Street Plaza – Public Places & Spaces – 2017