Building IT and property technology in Cathedral, BC

Operational IT for Cathedral properties

A neighbourhood in west Maple Ridge. Our approach to Cathedral properties is plain: find every networked device, give it an owner, put it on the right segment and watch it. Buildings are operations, and technology that supports them has to be measured the same way, with uptime, response times and a written record of what changed. That is the service PropertyIT delivers across the Lower Mainland and the rest of Canada.

How we quote work for Cathedral buildings

Every Cathedral quote is a written scope listing outcomes, assumptions, exclusions and price. For reference, our starting points are $89 to $199 per user per month for managed IT, $2,500 for projects, $1,500 per month for vCIO retainers and $1,900 for security assessments. A 10% launch discount applies, GST is extra and agreements run month to month after onboarding.

A practical starting point for Cathedral properties

For a first engagement in Cathedral we suggest a one-week building technology survey: network, access, cameras, Wi-Fi and software. The output is a drawing set, a risk list and a ranked plan. From there, Portfolio Cybersecurity and Cloud for Property Managers are common next steps, and the survey keeps every decision tied to evidence rather than to a vendor's brochure.

Carrier options, uplinks and failover for Cathedral buildings

Carrier choice at a Cathedral address depends on what is already in the ground, and the Lower Mainland is known for dense fibre, carrier-neutral data centres and a deep pool of local IT talent, but also heavy competition for it and constant office-lease churn. We record the circuit ID, the demarcation point and the contract renewal date for each building, then specify failover that fits the property. A single fibre line with LTE backup is often enough for a mid-sized rental; a commercial tower should have diverse entrances and written carrier escalation contacts.

Services most requested in Cathedral

Continuity planning for Cathedral properties

Buildings in the Lower Mainland face earthquake exposure along the Cascadia margin, atmospheric-river flooding in low-lying areas and the occasional wide-area carrier outage. A property team cannot control any of those, but it can decide what keeps working when they arrive: door access on battery, camera footage uploaded offsite, tenant notices sent from a cloud system and rent records restored from a clean backup. We write that plan for each Cathedral building, test it, and keep the emergency contacts somewhere that does not depend on the building being online.

Property operators in Cathedral and what they need

The people we work with in Cathedral include property management companies, co-working operators and property developers. They share a problem: technology accumulates faster than anyone can document it. We fix that by inventorying the systems, assigning owners, standardising the builds and reporting in plain language, whether the portfolio is three buildings or three hundred.

Matching the technology to the property type in Cathedral

Technology that works for a forty-suite rental does not scale to a commercial tower, and the reverse is also true. In Cathedral we scope each property by suite count, age, ownership model and tenant mix, then choose the lightest design that meets the need. That avoids over-building in small properties and under-building in large ones, a common failure when equipment is selected by whoever happens to be on site.

Camera footage, access logs and the law in Cathedral

Door and camera systems create records about people. BC's Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA) and, for cross-border activity, PIPEDA applies to how a Cathedral property collects, uses and keeps that information. We set written purposes for each camera group, limit retention, restrict export rights, post notices and log every release to police, insurers or residents. The result is a security system that can be defended if anyone asks how it is used.