Daniel Vander Veen, ing.
Independent professional engineer.
Facility condition assessments and pre-purchase home inspections in Greater Montreal.
A single engineer handles the site visit, the analysis, and the report. There's no team the work gets passed down to, and no template filling in the gaps.
Daniel spent 25 years in facilities and asset management before going independent, most of it responsible for what buildings cost their owners to operate over the long term. He now takes a limited number of assessments and inspections directly.
Facility condition assessments (FCA)
Condition of building systems, remaining useful life, and long-term capital planning. The FCA is the basis for the maintenance log book and the reserve fund study. For property managers, condo boards, and institutional owners.
How an FCA works →Pre-purchase home inspections
A thorough visual inspection of the property and its systems, with a written report. Inspections in compliance with the BNQ 3009-500 standard.
What an inspection covers →25 years in building operations, facilities maintenance, and asset management. Senior Director at a global facilities services consolidator, covering a $295M annual portfolio across several hundred client sites.
Built long-term capital plans for portfolios from $5M to $70M. Assessments in corporate, education, and health care segments. Earlier work included Director of Facilities at a 1,500-room residential complex in the Northern Alberta oil sands, and multiple years as a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt throughout various countries in high-volume manufacturing in Europe.
- Professional engineer, mechanical (OIQ)
- B.Eng., University of Victoria
- ISO 55001 asset management practitioner
- Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
- Errors and omissions insured
- English and French
- RBQ General Contractor License 1.3
- Certification Finance d'Entreprise HEC
I started as a mechanical engineer and spent most of my career on the owner's side, running asset management for large portfolios. The work was mostly answering one question: what condition is this building in, and what should be done about it.
I now work independently with portfolio owners who want their reserve fund studies to be an active tool driving strategic capital investment decisions. Clients deal with me directly, from the first call through to the report.
Get in touch
Describe the building and what you need to know about it, and I'll get back to you with what's involved.