Vancouve – Intelligent City, a company based in Vancouver, which specializes in the design, engineering and the production of prefabricated mass wood construction systems for middle to high-rise buildings, is pleased to announce the official start of production in a nine-story mass building in the West-End neighborhood of Turonto.
This building will increase by 230 Royal York Drive and is intended to claim the highest mass wood structure in the city until future projects that are currently in the pipeline. This includes 58 market for market times rental units and two replacement rental rooms in this area of the city that offer affordable and long-term rental options. The project is developed by Windmill Developments and Leader Lane Developments and with the help of project partners above Build, Lang Wilson Practice in Architecture Culture Inc. (LWPAC) and Moses Structural Engineers.
The Intelligent City production facility in Delta, BC, will create the main structure and the envelope of the building over the course of four months. With advanced automation, including industrial robots and AI, to process and assemble parts of the building on the production line, the company drives up innovation in industrialized construction processes. This development is a real demonstration of the power of prefabricated construction and sustainable materials that redesign the future of housing construction. By moving work from on -site in outside of the location, this approach can shorten the construction period by three to four months.
“New building practices like this shorten the time for the construction of living space and the reduction of the effects of the building on neighbors,” says city councilor Amber Morley, the Ward 3, Etobicoke Lakeshore. “This means that our residents will be able to go to urgently needed rental units that are on foot from the transit. Sustainable, mass wood development at 230 Royal York Drive reflects an obligation to reduce CO2 emissions and to expand environmental contracts.