One of our proudest installs. The Anvil Centre was the first project in Canada to use the Sistema Masa dry-anchored, ventilated stone system — experts flew in from Spain to train the crew, and we led the on-site installation under the general contractor. The cladding is 150-million-year-old Jurassic limestone quarried in Germany, carrying real fossils — ammonites and belemnites turned to stone.
The building went on to earn LEED Gold certification and was named the Fenestration Association of BC’s Project of the Year — recognition for a landmark civic centre whose stone facade we set, panel by panel.
Behind the stone — the Sistema Masa system
A ventilated facade is only as good as what you never see. Aluminum rails and dry anchors carry every panel — no mortar, just engineering — over the insulation and air barrier. Each stone is measured, set and checked before the next one goes up.
Every panel had an address. The color-coded maps and shop drawings told the crew exactly which stone went where — hundreds of unique pieces, placed one by one.
The facade, panel by panel
The fossil wall
Look closely at any panel and the stone looks back: ammonites, belemnites and sea creatures that lived 150 million years ago, now set plumb and true on a civic centre in New Westminster. Every one of these was photographed on the walls we installed.
