You shouldn't have to manage your own construction project.
LCM is Winnipeg's commercial design-build firm for busy owners who want real budget clarity, one accountable team, and a process that doesn't land back on their plate — from first drawing to opening day.
15+ Years in Business
Commercial construction in Winnipeg
Professional Architectural Design
Registered professional on every project
One Accountable Team
Pre-construction, Costing & construction
24-hour Feasibility Report
Project feasibility, before you commit
Most owners start by calling an architect or a general contractor. That sequencing often costs them more than they expect.
Here's what usually happens. An owner hires a designer. The designer produces drawings. Those drawings go out for contractor bids. The bids come back significantly higher than the designer's estimate — because design and construction were never talking to each other.
By the time the numbers land on your desk, the misalignment is already built in. Revising drawings costs money. Rebidding costs time. And somewhere in the middle, you've become the project manager for a process you never wanted to own.
There's a better sequence. It starts with a single conversation — before you hire anyone, before you spend anything — that tells you what your project actually costs and whether the timing makes sense for your business.
Explore how we help owners and developers at every stage
Visualize Potential. Build Results. Start with Certainty.
Tired, outdated buildings lose tenants and hurt rent potential. Whether you’re re-cladding your facade, upgrading your business space, building new, or tackling a full renovation—we help commercial property owners, asset managers, and developers across Winnipeg and Manitoba protect their investment, modernize with confidence, and increase property value.
With one accountable team—licensed architects, insured design leadership, cost guidance, real construction expertise, and early-stage feasibility insight—you get clarity on budgets, timelines, and results for your building—office, retail, industrial, or multi-family.
Expect real-world budget ranges before committing—Class C (+/-15%) and Class A (+/-5%) estimates provided as part of our process.
Three things LCM promises on every project.
Promise: 1
Single Point of Responsibility.
One team owns your project from the first design conversation through construction completion. You don't coordinate architects, consultants, and contractors. We do. If something needs to be resolved, there is one number to call and one team accountable for the answer.
Promise: 2
Clarity before commitment
We provide real budget ranges before design is locked — so you know your actual number before money and momentum are committed. Not a rough guess. A defensible estimate built from current Winnipeg market pricing, produced by the same team that will build it.
Promise: 3
Design-Builders Who Align Vision and Budget.
Your space is a business tool. Every design decision we make is measured against what it needs to do for your operation — your patients, your staff, your tenants, your timeline. Aesthetics matter. They just never lead.
Every project starts with three questions most owners can't get answered — until they talk to us.
Before any design begins, before any construction contract is signed, LCM works through three questions that determine whether a project makes sense and what it will actually take to deliver it well.
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We produce design visuals and 3D renders early in the process — not to sell you on an idea, but so you can make real decisions. Approving a line drawing is guesswork. Approving a rendered space is a decision.
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We offer a 24-hour Project Feasibility Study— a rapid read on your project before you've committed to design or construction. It won't replace a detailed estimate, but it will tell you whether you're in the right ballpark before you spend time and money finding out the hard way. From there, we move through Class C (+/- 15%) and Class A (+/- 5%) estimates as design progresses — so your budget number tightens as your commitment deepens, not after it.
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We build schedules around your reality — your opening date, your lease deadline, your lender's timeline. Not around what's convenient for the construction team. If the timeline doesn't work for your business, we'd rather tell you that in week one than discover it in month six.
What people are saying about working with us.
"We recently worked with LCM on a family medicine clinic build-out and the team was incredibly patient throughout the planning and design process.
Our feedback was always respected, and they went through several design iterations with us until we were satisfied. Early budgeting was clear and helped with putting together a design we were happy with. During construction the team was easily accessible and provided regular updates and timelines. Now upon completion, we’re very happy with the results!”
— Wesley Chow, West Kildonan Family Medicine
"The team at LCM have perfected the design-build process.
Outstanding collaboration every step of the process. We have used them on multiple projects and the end result is always spectacular!”
— Garrett Morrison, 1020 Sport Medicine - Physiotherapy
"This is our second time working with the team at LCM. Both of our projects have gone smoothly and to expectations.
Daniel, Jared and their team are professional and great to work with. The quality of work at our space was excellent and they provided a great finished product. I look forward to working with them again!”
— Zach Robert, Vice President, Finance at Cando Rail & Terminals
Three types of projects. One accountable team.
Whether you're fitting out a clinic, repositioning a commercial property, or building from the ground up — the process that protects you is the same.
Physiotherapy · Optometry · Sports Medicine · Dental
Your clinic has an opening date.
It can't move.
Whether you're building your first location or expanding an established practice, a clinic build-out comes with real pressure — a lease that's running, a lender watching the timeline, and patients expecting a space that works. We've built medical, dental, physiotherapy, and optometry clinics across Winnipeg for owners who needed the project handled without becoming the project.
What that looks like in practice: early budget clarity before you sign anything, a design process that accounts for clinical workflow, equipment rough-in, and regulatory requirements from day one, and a construction team that treats your opening date as a real constraint — not a suggestion.
Commercial Exteriors · Envelope · Re-cladding · Repositioning
Your building is telling a story. Make sure it's the right one.
A commercial property's exterior communicates before anyone walks through the door. If it's telling prospective tenants, customers, or buyers the wrong story — dated, neglected, misaligned with your market — that's a vacancy problem, an asset value problem, and a leasing problem all at once.
We work with property owners and asset managers who want real cost clarity before committing to a scope, a team that understands both the design and the construction side of an envelope project, and a single point of accountability when the work is underway. No coordinating between an architect, a cladding contractor, and a project manager. One team that carries it.
Warehouses · Light Industrial · Multi-family · Multi-tenant Commercial
Building new is exciting. It's also where most owners wish they'd had better clarity earlier.
Building from the ground up — whether it's a warehouse, an industrial facility, or a multi-family residential project — compounds every coordination risk that exists in a renovation. The design decisions made in month one are still being paid for in month eighteen. Misalignment between what was drawn and what was priced doesn't show up as a minor inconvenience. It shows up as a significant budget variance at the worst possible moment.
LCM brings design, pre-construction, and construction under one roof for new builds — so the team drawing the building is the same team pricing it, and the team pricing it is the same team building it. That continuity is what keeps new construction projects from becoming exercises in absorbing other people's mistakes.
True Design-Build, Real Integration
The Traditional Method: Architect first, contractor second.
You hire an architect. They design a space without real-time input on what it costs to build. You approve drawings. You send those drawings to contractors for bids. The bids come back — often higher than the architect's estimate, often different from each other. You manage the gap. You sit in the middle of two parties who have different incentives and no shared accountability for your outcome.
This model works. It's just not designed for owners who want to stay out of the weeds.
Design-build with LCM: One team. One conversation. One accountable outcome.
LCM's team includes Jeff Del Buono, a registered architect, alongside pre-construction specialists and construction management professionals — all operating under one engagement. Design and cost are developed in parallel, not in sequence. What gets drawn is informed by what it costs to build. What gets priced is informed by what was actually designed.
The result is fewer surprises, earlier clarity, and an owner who stays informed without having to manage every moving part.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Earlier than most owners expect. LCM provides Class D estimates (order-of-magnitude feasibility) within 24 hours. As design progresses, we move to Class C estimates (+/- 15% accuracy) and Class A estimates (+/- 5% accuracy) — all produced by the same team that will build the project, using current Winnipeg market pricing. Most owners we work with have a real, defensible budget number before they've committed to a lease, a lender, or a design contract.
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No. LCM's team includes Jeff Del Buono, a registered architect, who is involved in every project from pre-design through construction. Sealed drawings and professional liability coverage are included — you are not hiring a contractor who subcontracts design out. Architecture and construction are the same team.
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LCM works on three main project types: medical and healthcare clinic fit-outs (medical, dental, physiotherapy, optometry, and sport medicine), commercial exterior renovations and re-cladding, and new construction (warehouse, industrial, and multi-family residential). All three are delivered through the same design-build process — one accountable team, pre-construction first, design and cost developed in parallel.
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A general contractor builds from drawings produced by someone else. LCM produces the drawings and builds from them — through the same team. That means the design is informed by real construction cost from day one, and the construction is informed by the original design intent throughout. There's no handoff between designer and builder, no gap in accountability, and no owner sitting in the middle trying to resolve conflicts between two parties with separate contracts.
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Neither — at least not before you understand what your project actually costs. The most common and expensive mistake commercial owners make is hiring a designer before getting budget clarity. Design decisions made without real construction cost input often produce drawings that come back over budget. At LCM, the first conversation happens before any design or construction contract is signed — it's a pre-construction discussion that tells you what you're working with before you commit to anything.
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Design-build is a project delivery method where design and construction are managed by a single team under one contract. In the traditional model, owners hire an architect separately from a contractor — which creates a coordination gap between what gets drawn and what gets built. In a design-build model, those two disciplines work together from the start. LCM's team includes a registered architect alongside pre-construction and construction specialists, all under one engagement and one point of accountability
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A Feasibility Report is a rapid read on your project — an early-stage order-of-magnitude assessment that tells you whether your project is financially viable before you spend time or money on design. LCM provides Class D estimates within 24 hours for qualified projects. It's not a quote, and it's not a commitment — it's an honest first look at whether the numbers make sense for your situation, so you can decide whether to move forward with confidence rather than assumption.
Start with Certainty. Visualize Potential. Build Results.
Exteriors
Interiors
Multi Family
New Builds
Good design is an investment strategy, not just an expense
Do you want to stay out of the weeds? That's precisely what we're here for.
Most owners who work with LCM wish they'd had the pre-construction conversation earlier. Not because they made the wrong decisions but because earlier clarity made every decision easier and more cost effective.
Fifteen minutes tells you whether we're the right fit — and what your project actually costs to build.