Industrializing Mass Timber Construction with OD Krieg, Intelligent City
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Oliver David (OD) Krieg is the President of Intelligent City, a Vancouver-based company redefining how we build housing using mass timber, advanced manufacturing, and parametric design. Intelligent City is working to solve Canada’s climate and housing crises.
About Intelligent City: Intelligent City manufactures prefabricated building panels out of renewable mass timber. Their platform enables faster, lower-carbon, and higher-quality housing construction that can scale across Canadian cities.
About OD: With a background in architecture, robotics, and computational design, OD was one of the earliest team members at Intelligent City. He’s helped guide the company from early research and prototyping to full-scale manufacturing, including recent projects in Vancouver and Toronto. Their work is pushing the frontier of what’s possible in Canada’s construction and climate sectors.
In our conversation, we discuss:
The carbon math behind mass timber and why end-of-life planning matters
What’s slowing down construction, from financing models to permitting
What it takes to get developers and builders to shift mindsets and start exploring mass timber and prefab
The role of Canada’s forest supply chain in enabling sustainable construction
OD’s vision for local factories building homes across across the country
You’ll gain firsthand insight into what it takes to bring climate tech into a sector that can be slow to change and adapt, and why prefab construction might finally be ready to scale in Canada.
TALKING POINTS
The carbon math behind mass timber and why end-of-life planning matters
What’s slowing down construction, from financing models to permitting
What it takes to get developers and builders to shift mindsets and start exploring mass timber and prefab
The role of Canada’s forest supply chain in enabling sustainable construction
OD’s vision for local factories building homes across across the country
RESOURCES
Modular Building Codes - CSA A277
Intelligent City’s project with the Vancouver Native Housing Society
Toronto project with Windmill + Liederland Developments