We began as Vancouver Art Metal back in 1926. The machine shop mainly focused on steel fabrication of structures and commercial buildings. When the infrastructure boom hit western Canada, the company gained new skills by building several complex, scenic bridges.

In the 1970s the company won the first of many contracts for the astronomy field. It designed and built the dome enclosure for the Canada France Hawaii Telescope. Because of the remote location on top of a volcano in Hawaii, the company quickly learned how to create extremely reliable and precise projects in remote locations.

Based on the success of the first observatory project, we began to build a niche focusing on major international telescope projects. That section of the company is still at it today, now called Dynamic Structures.

As luck would have it, some of the same engineers building the telescope project ending up migrating to the theme park space. Both fields require ground-breaking engineering and precision fabrication. As a result, we were brought on to support several new attractions which would go on to change the theme park industry forever.