Custom Home Builder in Langley, BC

Yes. BC Housing puts it directly: if you are a general contractor, developer or building envelope renovator and want to build a new home in B.C., you must first become a licensed residential builder. The licence is renewed every year, and Continuing Professional Development is a mandatory part of renewing a general contractor licence. Kyrax Developments Ltd. holds Residential Builder Licence #57802, in good standing, as a General Contractor and Developer. Sources: BC Housing, Builder & Developer Licensing, and the BC Housing Licence Registry, verified September 2026.

Yes, unless an exemption applies. BC Housing says a new home project must be registered and enrolled in home warranty insurance, or have an applicable exemption, and that all new homes built by licensed residential builders in B.C. must carry 2-5-10 home warranty insurance, which it calls the strongest construction defect insurance in Canada. The insurers that provide it are approved by the BC Financial Services Authority, and there is a rental exemption with its own acceptance criteria and a restrictive covenant registered on title. Source: BC Housing, New Home Registration & Warranty, verified September 2026.

It decides which permit system you are in. The Township runs a separate permit type for each kind of home — a new residential single family dwelling, a new single family dwelling with an accessory building, a single family two-dwelling house for a duplex or semi-detached, a row house, and an ALR second dwelling under 90 square metres — and it is moving to digital submission, with paper applications no longer accepted where a digital one is available. The City of Langley publishes its own guide and application package for a new single family dwelling, alongside separate packages for accessory buildings, secondary suites, demolition and multi-family work. Sources: Township of Langley, Residential Building Permits; City of Langley, Building Permits, verified September 2026.

Generally not, because houses are carved out. The City's building permits page says all buildings and structures will, when constructed or altered, be equipped with sprinklers installed and maintained to the current NFPA 13 standard, and then excludes single-family and two-family residential dwellings from that part, along with work whose total market value over any 36 consecutive months is no more than 30% of the building's most recent assessed value, and alterations or additions for an occupant load of 60 people or fewer. Source: City of Langley, Building Permits, verified September 2026.

The BC Energy and Zero Carbon Step Codes, at whatever level applies on your building permit date. The Province says Step Code requirements are based on the building permit date of the project and where it is located: the Province sets the minimum energy efficiency requirements, and local governments have the authority to require higher steps through bylaw if they choose. The Province describes the path as net-zero energy ready new buildings by 2032 and zero carbon new buildings by 2030, and publishes a Part 9 checklist for demonstrating compliance on a simple building like a house. Sources: Province of British Columbia, BC Energy and Zero Carbon Step Codes and Step Code requirements, verified September 2026.

Its building permits page lists the guide and application package for a new single family dwelling, and the supporting documents that go with inspections: Form 1 owner's acknowledgements, Form 2 registered professional's proof of insurance, heating system design and installation certification, an insulation certificate, landscape certification, the TECA mechanical ventilation checklist, and a services, sump and rockpit location diagram. Permit fees sit in Schedule 4 of the City's Fees and Charges Bylaw, and the work is governed by its Building and Plumbing Bylaw. Source: City of Langley, Building Permits and its new single family dwelling package, verified September 2026.

Only with a permit if they are protected, and most mature trees are. The Township's Tree Protection Bylaw protects any tree with a trunk diameter of 20 centimetres or more at breast height, along with replacement trees and trees used by nesting raptors, osprey, pileated woodpeckers, herons or hummingbirds. Removal in conjunction with a building permit application is one of the situations the Township allows, cutting is not permitted between 6 p.m. and 8 a.m., and a building permit affected by the bylaw has to be reviewed and accepted for tree protection before it can issue — which is why the tree work goes in at the start of a new-home application, not the end. Sources: Township of Langley, Tree Protection Bylaw 2019 No. 5478, Tree Protection and Building Permits, verified September 2026.

Under the City's Tree Protection and Management Bylaw, which it adopted in January 2026: significant trees of 75 centimetres in diameter or more at breast height, trees in environmentally sensitive areas, replacement trees, trees that must stay through redevelopment and trees over 20 centimetres on lots with active development applications, and City trees. Unauthorized removal of a protected tree can bring fines starting at $3,000 per tree. Sources: City of Langley, Tree Protection & Management Bylaw and Bylaw No. 3321, verified September 2026.

It depends which Langley. The Township's Community Standards Bylaw allows construction sound from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday to Saturday and bars it on Sundays and statutory holidays; its bulletin counts warming up equipment when trades arrive or leave as construction activity. The City's Noise Bylaw allows construction from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday to Friday and 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturdays, with no construction noise on Sundays or statutory holidays. Sources: Township of Langley, Community Standards Bylaw 2019 No. 5448, sections 10.3 and 10.4; City of Langley, Noise Bylaw No. 2628, sections 2.1 and 2.2, verified September 2026.

On our projects, a custom home runs 12 to 18 months from permit to handover. That is our own clock and it excludes the permit itself: neither municipality publishes a processing time on the permit pages we read, and in the Township a building permit affected by the Tree Protection Bylaw cannot issue until the tree review is accepted. Sources: Township of Langley, Residential Building Permits and Building Permits; City of Langley, Building Permits, verified September 2026.

Both municipalities have a route for it. The City of Langley publishes a secondary suite application package and a secondary suite declaration alongside its house permits, and the Township lists an ALR second dwelling under 90 square metres as its own permit type. The suite rules themselves — who may live there, parking, fees and registration — are on our Langley basement suites page. Sources: City of Langley, Building Permits; Township of Langley, Residential Building Permits, verified September 2026.

Yes to both. Kyrax Developments Ltd. holds BC Housing Residential Builder Licence #57802, in good standing, as a General Contractor and Developer, which is the classification BC Housing requires to build a new home; verify it on the BC Housing Licence Registry. Renovation work across both Langleys is covered on our Langley home renovations page.