Choosing a Contractor · August 24, 2026 · 11 min read

Oberizon vs. Gibraltar, Seasons Contracting & Medico Construction: Which Vancouver Contractor Should You Choose in 2026?

A disclosure before anything else: we are Oberizon Construction, and we are one of the four companies on this page. That should tell you how to read it. What we can do honestly is show you what each of these companies publishes about itself, with the source, and be clear about what nobody publishes — so you can compare on facts rather than on adjectives. What we will not do is tell you that a competitor is slower or worse, because we have no way of knowing that, and neither does anyone else writing a page like this one.

Key takeaway. All four build clinics in the Lower Mainland and they are different shapes of business. Gibraltar is the largest and broadest — founded 1993, 70+ team members, 9,000+ projects, nine sectors. Seasons is a clinic specialist in Abbotsford with 200+ projects and 15+ years. Medico is a clinic specialist with in-house design, offices in BC and Alberta, and 50+ medical clinics. Oberizon is the youngest, White Rock-based, covering clinics, commercial and luxury residential across 14 cities, and the only one of the four publishing its cost bands.

How to Read This Comparison

Every figure below about Gibraltar, Seasons Contracting and Medico comes from that company's own website, read on 25 August 2026, with the page linked. Three rules were applied:

1. Only self-published facts. If a company states it, it goes in. If it does not, the cell reads "Not stated" rather than an estimate.
2. No verdicts about competitors. Nothing about anyone else's speed, quality, reliability or value. Those are unverifiable, and a page that asserts them is marketing wearing a comparison's clothes.
3. Oberizon is held to the same standard. Our column contains only what our own site publishes and stands behind.

Company websites change. If you are reading this well after August 2026, check the source links before relying on any figure.

The Four, Side by Side

Sources: Gibraltar Construction — About, Seasons Contracting Ltd, Medico Construction & Design — About Us. All read 25 August 2026.

Gibraltar Construction

The largest and longest-established of the four. Gibraltar states it has been operating since 1993, publishes 70+ team members, 9,000+ completed projects and 30+ years of industry experience, and works from 520 Sharpe Street, New Westminster.

What most distinguishes their published profile is breadth. Dental offices and healthcare facilities are two of nine sectors they list, alongside commercial tenant improvements, financial institutions, property management, government institutions, educational institutions, retail and restaurant, and new construction. They publish four delivery models — general contracting, project management, construction management and design-build — and separate contact numbers for the Lower Mainland and for Vancouver Island and the Interior.

The profile fits: larger or institutional programmes, multi-site rollouts, projects outside the Lower Mainland, and clients who want one contractor across several building types.

Seasons Contracting Ltd

A clinic specialist based in the Fraser Valley. Seasons publishes over 15 years of experience and 200+ successfully executed projects, working from 302A – 33771 George Ferguson Way, Abbotsford.

Their published scope is narrower and more focused than Gibraltar's: dental and medical clinic construction and renovation, with interior design and drawing services offered alongside the build. They describe turnkey solutions running "from design to inauguration". Their published service area covers Vancouver, Richmond, Burnaby, Coquitlam and the Tri-Cities, Surrey and White Rock, Abbotsford and Chilliwack, and North and West Vancouver.

The profile fits: dental or medical clinic owners in the Fraser Valley and Lower Mainland who want a contractor doing that work and not much else, with design available in the same contract.

Medico Construction & Design

The most geographically distributed of the four, and the one publishing the most integrated design offering. Medico lists offices in Surrey and Victoria in BC and Sherwood Park and Calgary in Alberta, and publishes 50+ medical clinics completed.

Their published model is built around in-house design, build and product specialist teams, covering planning, design and construction management. Two items in their published service list are unusual in this group: equipment integration and telehealth, and marketing. Their clinic focus as published leans toward medical, optometry, eye care and integrative wellness.

The profile fits: clinic owners who want design, equipment specification and construction from one company, practices operating across BC and Alberta, and optometry or eye care builds where equipment coordination is the central problem.

Oberizon Construction

We are the youngest of the four — founded in 2021 — and we work from Suite 305, 1493 Foster Street, White Rock. We publish 40+ projects since founding, of which ten are documented on our site with addresses and photography, and we work across 14 Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley cities.

Two things about our published profile differ from the others, and both are verifiable rather than claimed.

We publish our cost bands. Every build type we do has a per-square-foot range on its service page and in these guides — $150–$260 per sq ft for a medical clinic, $300–$450 per sq ft for a dental clinic, $180–$250 per sq ft for a pharmacy, $120–$220 per sq ft for an office fit-out. None of the other three publish rates on the pages reviewed here. That is normal in this industry; we publish them because a client comparing quotes should be able to see where a number comes from.

Our range is wider than clinic-only. Alongside dental, medical, pharmacy and clinic renovation, we build commercial and office space and luxury residential. That is a genuine trade-off rather than a straightforward advantage: a clinic-only contractor does clinic work more often than we do commercial work.

We also publish what we cannot yet stand behind. Our site carries a public list of facts we decline to assert until they are verified — including permit review timelines for the municipalities that do not publish them. Being able to see what a contractor will not claim is at least as useful as seeing what they will.

The profile fits: clinic, commercial and residential owners in the Lower Mainland who want published pricing before a first meeting, and who value a smaller firm where the person quoting the job is involved in running it.

Which Profile Fits Which Project

Reduced to the published facts, and with no judgment implied about anyone's execution:

• Institutional, multi-site, or outside the Lower Mainland — Gibraltar publishes the depth and the geographic reach for it. We do not work on Vancouver Island; they publish a contact for it.
• A dental or medical clinic in the Fraser Valley — Seasons is a clinic specialist based there with design in-house.
• An optometry or eye care build, or a practice spanning BC and Alberta — Medico publishes in-house design, equipment and telehealth integration, and offices in both provinces.
• A clinic, commercial or residential project in the Lower Mainland where you want the price band before the first meeting — that is what we publish.

If your project does not obviously match one of those, that is normal, and it is why the vetting questions below matter more than any comparison table.

How to Vet Any Contractor Before You Sign

Whoever you shortlist, ask all of these. The answers are more informative than any website, including ours.

1. What is your BC contractor licence, and can I see a current WorkSafeBC clearance letter? Both are verifiable in minutes and non-negotiable.
2. Show me proof of liability insurance and its limit.
3. Three references from the last two years, in my build type. Not your best three ever — your last three.
4. Who is my site supervisor, how many other jobs will they run at the same time, and will they change?
5. How are change orders priced and approved? Ask to see a blank one.
6. What contingency is in this number, and what happens to it if it is not used?
7. How long do you hold this price, and what are the escalation terms?
8. What is in the schedule for permitting, and what happens if the city takes longer?
9. How are deficiencies handled at the end, and when does the warranty start?
10. Which parts of this are subcontracted, and which are your own crews?

A contractor who answers all ten without hesitating is showing you how the job will be run. One who is vague on change orders and contingency is showing you that too. Our longer guide, 10 questions to ask a healthcare construction contractor in BC, covers what a good answer to each actually sounds like.

Comparing the Quotes, Not the Companies

Once you have three numbers, the comparison stops being about brand and starts being about scope. Two quotes for the same clinic are almost never pricing the same work. Check each on mechanical scope, base-building remediation, permits and inspections, whether millwork is drawn or carried as an allowance, contingency, and deficiency and warranty terms. Commercial tenant improvement cost per square foot sets out what each build type should cost, so you can see which quote is out of band and ask why.

Conclusion

There is no best construction company in Vancouver, and any page claiming to name one — this one included — should be read with that in mind. What there is: four companies with genuinely different published profiles. Gibraltar has the most scale and breadth. Seasons and Medico are clinic specialists with different geographies and different design models. We are the youngest, the most local, and the only one of the four telling you what things cost before you call. Vet all of them on the ten questions above, compare the quotes on scope rather than on totals, and choose the one whose answers you believe. If that is us, our healthcare construction page covers how we run clinical work.