B.C. steel company sees major business spike after Kelowna fires

By Jean Sorensen
Journal of Commerce
September 22, 2023
Category: Wood, Paper & Green Building
Region: Canada, Canada West

Kelowna-based BC Steel Ltd., a full-service company that engineers, designs and builds prefabricated steel buildings, has seen a 50 per cent increase in calls since the West Kelowna and Scotch Creek fires razed homes and buildings. “We are getting at least 20 calls a day and growing,” said Darryl Williams, company president. “There is almost a sense of panic. People are worried about their house, their barn where they keep their horses or their two-car garage.” Those calls, he said, are on top of the 40 calls the company regularly fields from industrial, commercial, and agricultural users as it is growing a reputation of designing for disasters. …Williams said steel structures have always provided protection against traumatic events but last year he introduced the concept of Fire Safe, a design and building process that focuses on making structures – ranging from residential to industrial applications – more fire resilient.

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