About Square One

Decorative pavement in BC since 2000

Crosswalks, streetscapes, plazas, parks, school grounds and driveways, installed by our own crews from one office in Maple Ridge, on both sides of the Strait.

Artist-designed crosswalk of waves, sand and sky in TrafficPatterns on Marine Drive, White Rock, installed by Square One Paving
Marine Drive, White Rock · TrafficPatterns · 2025
Our story

One kind of work, done properly

Square One Paving started in 2000 doing one kind of work: decorative pavement, in BC, through BC weather. More than twenty-five years on, we still do that one kind of work, with our own crews.

On the record
  1. 2000Square One Paving begins installing decorative pavement in British Columbia
  2. 4services: stamped asphalt, decorative coatings, preformed thermoplastic and vapour blasting
  3. 8pavement systems installed, from StreetPrint to PreMark
  4. 10kinds of work, each with a gallery of Square One's own photographs
Circle of Life artwork in StreetBond at Langley Events Centre, installed by Square One Paving
Langley Events Centre · StreetBond
Our mission

“Build surfaces that perform as well as they look, and last.”

What we install

Four trades, one standard

All services
  • A circular turnaround in charcoal herringbone StreetPrint in front of a new apartment building in Chilliwack
    Chilliwack · StreetPrint

    Stamped asphalt

    Brick, cobble and slate, pressed into the asphalt itself.

  • Blue and orange StreetBond around the play features of the spray park in Maple Ridge
    Spray park, Maple Ridge · StreetBond

    Decorative coatings

    StreetBond colour on asphalt and concrete.

  • An alphabet path in rainbow-coloured DecoMark winding along a school walkway at South Langford Elementary, Langford
    South Langford Elementary, Langford · DecoMark

    Preformed thermoplastic

    Crosswalks, symbols and public art, fused into the road.

  • Square One crew vapour blasting at Granville Island
    Granville Island, Vancouver · vapour blasting

    Vapour blasting

    Cleaning, priming, graffiti and marking removal.

How we work

Why Square One

Built for BC weather

Slip-resistant, snowplow-safe, UV-stable: the manufacturer publishes how every system we install performs.

Municipal discipline, residential care

Civic work goes in to the owner's marking standard. A driveway gets the same crews.

Chosen against the real site

Patterns are drawn to scale and colours come off the published chart, held up on sample boards where the work will go.

How a job goes

Four steps, every job

  1. Step 1: Site visit

    We walk the site with you and bring the sample boards. Free.

  2. Step 2: Written quote

    The system, the pattern and the colours, in writing, before anything starts.

  3. Step 3: Install

    Our own crews prep the surface and install to the published specification.

  4. Step 4: Aftercare

    We walk the finished work with you before we leave the site.

  • The template laid out in white on a townhouse laneway in North Vancouver before the asphalt is stamped
  • Square One's crew at a coned-off intersection in Richmond with the template laid on the crossing
  • Square One's crew heat-fusing a rainbow crossing under the pedestrian signals in Penticton
  • The infrared heater rig parked on a freshly laid grey octagon with blue web lines mid-install at KB Woodward school, Surrey
The work

Won in the open, kept through winters

Municipal work is won in open tenders and kept by holding up. Ten kinds of it, each with a gallery of Square One’s own installations.

Regions

Where we work

One office in Maple Ridge, crews on both sides of the Strait, and the vapour blasting rig goes wherever the surface is.

Office

Maple Ridge, BC

19–11720 Stewart Crescent, V2X 9E7

604-612-6209 · 1-877-391-0270

office@squareonepaving.com

Service region

Vancouver Island

Crews serve Greater Victoria, the Cowichan Valley and Nanaimo

250-391-0270

Metro VancouverFraser ValleySea to SkySunshine CoastVancouver IslandOkanagan

Start a project

Send a few photos and a site address

A free site visit and a written quote, anywhere in the Lower Mainland and on Vancouver Island.