Along with high-quality, high-performance housing, Naikoon Contracting is collaborating with First Nations to deploy mobile prefab factories to catalyze local economic development, workforce training and growth in modern, energy efficient, methods of construction.
This 90-minute webinar explores two multi-faceted partnerships:
Policy makers are putting offsite manufacturers out of the plant and onto the front page with promises of solving Canada’s housing crisis and, at the same time, supporting secure jobs, value-added forestry, lower-emissions construction, and construction productivity.
While entrepreneurial tenacity forms the foundation of Canada’s offsite manufacturing sector, public policy is shaping cornerstones for its success—from local permitting innovation to senior government code reform and alternative procurement.
Local governments are on the frontlines in managing housing and construction pressures, climate impacts, and economic stress.
Mass timber is an offsite-manufactured, low-carbon building technology that can reduce construction-related community impacts and timelines while supporting value-added B.C. forestry, manufacturing, and construction sectors.
Innovations in building permitting and land use policy and zoning can help local governments unlock mass timber’s benefits for diverse communities from metropolitan areas to resource-based towns.
This webinar aims to foster awareness about CSA certification of manufactured buildings, modules and panels to help local governments integrate certification into bylaws and the permitting process and help industry navigate this process. It will outline the benefits to local governments, the construction industry and manufacturers and risk management considerations to maximize code and bylaw compliance, including unique local requirements such as seismic standards and advanced energy step code. CSA A277 certification of manufactured buildings, modules and panels will be the focus.