[Chowda7]

Build Canada Homes Launches Request for Information on Modern Methods of Construction - Canada.ca

Canada’s housing sector is under unprecedented pressure, with demand for affordable homes far exceeding current supply. Build Canada Homes is responding by championing Modern Methods of Construction (MMC)—innovative approaches such as modular, factory-built, and prefabricated systems that can...

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[CalgaryTiger]

Build Canada Homes Launches Request for Information on Modern Methods of Construction - Canada.ca

Canada’s housing sector is under unprecedented pressure, with demand for affordable homes far exceeding current supply. Build Canada Homes is responding by championing Modern Methods of Construction (MMC)—innovative approaches such as modular, factory-built, and prefabricated systems that can...

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ATCO is falling over themselves to get the feds to pay for half of their new community proposal as a Proof of Concept.

 

[trtcttc]

Build Canada Homes Launches Request for Information on Modern Methods of Construction - Canada.ca

Canada’s housing sector is under unprecedented pressure, with demand for affordable homes far exceeding current supply. Build Canada Homes is responding by championing Modern Methods of Construction (MMC)—innovative approaches such as modular, factory-built, and prefabricated systems that can...

www.canada.ca

Fine program but I don't know why we need to spend so much money reinventing the wheel. Calgary and Edmonton saw an unprecedented amount of new residents, and we built such that housing costs stayed one of the most affordable in the country, and now we're in a bit of a supply glut because we've built too fast. It's not homebuilding methods holding back Vancouver and Toronto.

 

[darwink]

now we're in a bit of a supply glut because we've built too fast

The supply gut is an illusion. There is an over supply of really expensive per square foot units. Plenty of units above $2000 a square foot that were bought by assignment speculators, rolling in their profit from their previous assignment sales blew up in their faces in spectacular fashion.

Sustainably increasing production back to levels achieved in the 70s at the very least needs to be the goal.

The municipalities throw up every barrier imaginable. A project like the triangle site modular homes would take 5 years to get ready to build in Toronto or Vancouver if they ever even would entertain such an idea.

The federal government is eliminating excuses for municipalities that say they're doing everything they can while they are obviously not doing everything they can.

 

[trtcttc]

The supply gut is an illusion. There is an over supply of really expensive per square foot units. Plenty of units above $2000 a square foot that were bought by assignment speculators, rolling in their profit from their previous assignment sales blew up in their faces in spectacular fashion.

Sustainably increasing production back to levels achieved in the 70s at the very least needs to be the goal.

The municipalities throw up every barrier imaginable. A project like the triangle site modular homes would take 5 years to get ready to build in Toronto or Vancouver if they ever even would entertain such an idea.

The federal government is eliminating excuses for municipalities that say they're doing everything they can while they are obviously not doing everything they can.

I meant a supply glut in Calgary, not Toronto shoebox condos, which is also over supplied, but agreed those aren't really family homes by Canadian standards. I don't think we have anything at $2000 or even close to that in Calgary.

My argument is that we literally have a playbook of how to increase home production, it's right here in Calgary and Edmonton. We build more homes per capita than almost any other areas of the country. We scaled our production from population decline locally to one of the fastest growing city in the country and our housing production kept pace! This is like a government looking at hyperloop or hydrogen trains, when there's perfectly good HSR technology. We don't need to reinvent homebuilding, cities just need to adopt policies and staff their departments sufficiently.

 

[haltcatchfire]

The supply gut is an illusion. There is an over supply of really expensive per square foot units. Plenty of units above $2000 a square foot that were bought by assignment speculators, rolling in their profit from their previous assignment sales blew up in their faces in spectacular fashion.

Sustainably increasing production back to levels achieved in the 70s at the very least needs to be the goal.

The municipalities throw up every barrier imaginable. A project like the triangle site modular homes would take 5 years to get ready to build in Toronto or Vancouver if they ever even would entertain such an idea.

The federal government is eliminating excuses for municipalities that say they're doing everything they can while they are obviously not doing everything they can.

The triangle site has been in the works way longer than five years.

 

[CallmeCatbread]

Fine program but I don't know why we need to spend so much money reinventing the wheel. Calgary and Edmonton saw an unprecedented amount of new residents, and we built such that housing costs stayed one of the most affordable in the country, and now we're in a bit of a supply glut because we've built too fast. It's not homebuilding methods holding back Vancouver and Toronto.

Volumetric Modular construction is a scam that companies have been trying to sell to governments for decades because ever 30 years or so the feds decide they want to throw billions of dollars at an old problem and companies like ATCO stand to gain. There's nothing modern or innovative about it. Factory mass production is one of the oldest ideas of modern (re:early 20th century) architecture.

 

[MichaelS]

Early stages, but it looks like Calgary Housing Company is going to be doing a Marda Loop project, based on this RFP:

Alberta Purchasing Connection

purchasing.alberta.ca

Enmax Substation 4 is located at the NW corner of 14th Street and 34th Ave SW:

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[jdpv]

Noticed fencing (couldn't make out the contractor's logo) around the parkade across from Bow Valley and the Library (610 3 St SE). Photo from Google Maps, for context.

Anyone know what's going on there? Couldn't find anything on DMAP.

 

[The Familia]

Oh God, please don't cut down all those trees........

 

[cameronhowe]

That was my first thought as well. I'm happy to see that parkade go but all those trees are so mature and healthy, it would be a shame to lose them.

 

[Roaring Flames]

That parkade has sat pretty much unused for a LONG time. Anyone know the story behind it? Maybe structural issues?

 

[darwink]

Volumetric Modular construction is a scam that companies have been trying to sell to governments for decades because ever 30 years or so the feds decide they want to throw billions of dollars at an old problem and companies like ATCO stand to gain. There's nothing modern or innovative about it. Factory mass production is one of the oldest ideas of modern (re:early 20th century) architecture.

There is a clear case for government intervention though: scale is needed to make cost reductions real and across the country and governments need to stop blocking its use. It is also useful as a competitive benchmark to reduce profit of contractors by growing productive capacity.

 

[DougB]

That was my first thought as well. I'm happy to see that parkade go but all those trees are so mature and healthy, it would be a shame to lose them.

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There is a clear case for government intervention though: scale is needed to make cost reductions real and across the country and governments need to stop blocking its use. It is also useful as a competitive benchmark to reduce profit of contractors by growing productive capacity.

When has government every:
-achieved scale to reduce costs? Generally, any scale achieved by government works in reverse due to inefficient organizational structures
-reduced profits of contractors? Government could only do so through subsidies and if that worked, why should government target reduced profit margins in certain sectors? The market determines profit

 

[jdpv]

Noticed fencing (couldn't make out the contractor's logo) around the parkade across from Bow Valley and the Library (610 3 St SE). Photo from Google Maps, for context.

Anyone know what's going on there? Couldn't find anything on DMAP.

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It’s Boom Construction, but couldn’t find any supplementary info: https://www.boomltd.ca/