The terms for using BuildBlox.

By creating an account or using the Service, you agree to these terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you use the Service for an organisation, you confirm that you are authorised to accept these terms on its behalf, and “you” includes that organisation.

If you only browse the Site, the sections about accounts, content and fees don’t apply to you, but the rest do. If your organisation has a separate written agreement with us for BuildBlox, that agreement prevails over these terms where they conflict.

You must be at least 18 years old and able to enter into a binding contract to use the Platform. BuildBlox is designed for people and organisations working in housing delivery: developers, builders, manufacturers, consultants, property owners and their advisers.

• You can sign in with Microsoft, Google, or an email address and password. Give us accurate information and keep it up to date.
• Keep your sign-in details to yourself. Accounts are personal: don’t share one or let anyone else use yours.
• You are responsible for what happens under your account.
• Tell us straight away at buildblox@greenmetrics.ca if you think someone else has used your account.

BuildBlox carries a housing project from lot selection to a construction handoff: finding a lot and its zoning, generating design options, validating building models, estimating cost, building a pro-forma and producing reports. Each stage opens when the one before it is complete; that sequence is part of how the Service works.

BuildBlox is under active development. We add, change and sometimes remove features, and some features may be labelled as a preview or beta, meaning they are still being tested. If we remove a feature you materially rely on, we’ll give you reasonable notice where we can.

BuildBlox offers plans (such as Basic, Pro and Max) and project packages. At present we don’t charge for them. Before we start charging for anything you use, we’ll give you at least 30 days’ notice with the price, and you can stop using it before any charge applies. Fees will be exclusive of applicable taxes.

You own it

“Your content” means what you or your team put into the Service: project details, site information, models, drawings, documents, comments and the like. You keep all rights in it.

What you allow us to do with it

You grant GMT a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence, for as long as your content is in the Service, to host, store, copy, process, transmit, display and convert it — for example, translating a model into another format — only as needed to provide, secure and support the Service for you and your project team. That includes passing it to the service providers listed in our Privacy Policy when you use a feature that needs them.

We use your content for nothing else. We don’t sell it, we don’t use it to train AI models, and we don’t combine it with other customers’ content to build products or benchmarks.

Shared projects

Content added to a project is visible to that project’s members. If you leave a project, what you contributed stays with it because the rest of the team relies on it.

Your responsibilities

You must have the right to upload and share your content, including any personal information in it about other people, and your content must not break the law or anyone’s rights.

What the Service produces for you

You may use the design options, estimates, reports and exports the Service generates for your projects. They draw on our design catalogue, rulesets, pricing data and templates, which remain ours; you may not extract, copy or rebuild those as a separate product or data set.

You agree not to:

• break the law or infringe anyone’s rights, including privacy and intellectual property rights;
• upload malware or anything designed to damage or interfere with the Service or its users;
• probe, scan or test the Service’s security, or get around its access controls, stage locks or usage limits, without our written permission;
• access the Service by automated means (scraping, bulk downloading, bots) other than features we provide for that purpose;
• copy, reverse engineer or decompile the Service, except where the law allows despite this term;
• use the Service to build a competing product;
• misrepresent who you are, or present the Service’s output as a registered professional’s work or sign-off when it isn’t;
• overload the Service, or share your account or resell access to it.

If you find a security vulnerability, please tell us at buildblox@greenmetrics.ca and give us a reasonable chance to fix it before disclosing it.

BuildBlox is a decision-support tool. Its zoning and bylaw checks, digitized building-code checks, readiness scores, gate workflows, cost estimates, pro-formas and forecasts, design options, model exports and AI-generated briefs and answers are aids to your judgement. They are not architectural, engineering, planning, legal, appraisal, financial, tax or investment advice.

• They don’t replace the review, seal or sign-off of an architect, engineer or other professional registered in your province, or a permit or decision from the authority having jurisdiction.
• Building-code checks cover only the rules we have digitized, as shown in the Service. Passing them does not mean a design complies with the building code.
• A Class D estimate is an early, order-of-magnitude figure with a wide margin of error, and pro-formas and forecasts depend on assumptions that may not hold.
• AI-generated content can be incomplete or wrong.

You are responsible for checking anything you rely on — before you buy land, commit to a design, apply for a permit or financing, or build — with qualified professionals and the relevant authorities.

The Service relies on other companies’ services, such as Microsoft and Google sign-in, Autodesk’s model services, Anthropic’s AI models, and mapping providers. Their own terms may apply when you use them, and we aren’t responsible for them.

Parcel, zoning, bylaw and property assessment information comes from governments and other third parties, and we digitize some bylaws and building-code rules ourselves. Any of it may be incomplete, out of date or wrong. Confirm it with the source or the authority having jurisdiction before relying on it.

The Service — its software, design catalogue, rulesets, pricing data, templates, text, graphics and the BuildBlox name and logo — belongs to GMT and its licensors. We give you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable right to use the Service under these terms. We reserve every right not expressly granted.

If you send us ideas or suggestions, through the Feedback button or otherwise, we may use them without restriction or payment to you. Feedback reports are handled as described in our Privacy Policy.

You can stop using the Service at any time and ask us to close your account at buildblox@greenmetrics.ca. Before you do, you can ask for a copy of your content, which we’ll provide in a reasonable format within 30 days of your request.

We may suspend or close your access if you seriously or repeatedly break these terms, if your use puts the Service or others at risk, or if the law requires it. Where it’s practical and lawful, we’ll tell you first and give you a chance to put things right and to get a copy of your content.

Sections 6 (as to what you’re responsible for), 8, and 10 to 19 continue to apply after your account is closed.

To the fullest extent the law allows, the Service is provided “as is” and “as available.” We don’t promise that it will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that its information and outputs are accurate, complete or fit for a particular purpose, and we disclaim all implied warranties and conditions, including those of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.

To the fullest extent the law allows:

• GMT is not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive loss, or for lost profits, revenue, business opportunity or data, even if we were told it was possible;
• GMT’s total liability for all claims relating to the Service is limited to the greater of the fees you paid us for the Service in the 12 months before the claim arose and CAD $100.

These limits don’t apply to liability that the law does not allow to be limited, such as for fraud, and they don’t limit rights you have as a consumer that can’t be excluded.

If you use the Service for business, you will defend and indemnify GMT and its directors, officers and employees against third-party claims, and the resulting losses and reasonable costs, that arise from your content or from your breach of these terms.

These terms are governed by the laws of British Columbia and the federal laws of Canada that apply there. If a dispute arises, please contact us first; we’ll try in good faith to resolve it within 30 days. If we can’t, the courts of British Columbia, sitting in Vancouver, have exclusive jurisdiction, except where consumer protection law gives you the right to bring a claim in your own province.

We may update these terms. We’ll change the date at the top, and for material changes we’ll give at least 30 days’ notice on the Site and by email or in the Platform before they take effect. If you keep using the Service after that, the new terms apply; if you don’t agree with them, stop using the Service and ask us to close your account.

• Entire agreement. These terms, the Privacy Policy and any separate written agreement with your organisation are the whole agreement between us about the Service.
• Assignment. You may not transfer these terms without our written consent. We may transfer them as part of a merger, acquisition or sale of GMT or BuildBlox.
• Severability. If a court finds part of these terms unenforceable, the rest still apply.
• No waiver. If we don’t enforce a term straight away, we can still enforce it later.
• Events beyond our control. We aren’t responsible for failures caused by events we can’t reasonably control, such as outages at our providers, natural disasters or acts of government.
• Notices. We’ll send notices to the email address on your account or show them in the Platform. Send notices to us at buildblox@greenmetrics.ca.
• Relationship. We are independent parties; these terms create no partnership, agency or employment relationship.

Questions about these terms: buildblox@greenmetrics.ca, or write to Green Metrics Technology Corp., 2028 W 11th Ave, Vancouver, BC V6J 2C9, Canada.