Innovation Building Group (IBG) aims to make it easier, faster, and cheaper to build better homes for Canadians.
The veteran building designer and semi-finalist in the CMHC Housing Supply Challenge has launched IBG Designs, a new online platform that provides readily-available designs for multi-tenant buildings that smaller communities and organizations can use to address their affordable housing supply challenges.
The high-quality, customizable building designs offered through IBG Designs are high-performance, climate-resilient, and cost-effective designs for low-rise buildings. By providing accessible and affordable design options, IBG Designs is making advanced, sustainable architecture accessible to smaller communities and organizations that might otherwise be constrained by limited resources or financial limitations.
“We are sharing our hard-earned knowledge to empower smaller communities and organizations to unlock the housing potential in their own backyards,” says Rod Nadeau, CEO and founder of Innovation Building Group.
“We’ve spent years constructing and operating our own projects, so every design is meticulously refined and rigorously tested by independent case studies and real-life operations, ensuring they are of the highest quality. Local builders and organizations can now pursue projects they might not have thought were possible.”
IBG Designs is the culmination of IBG’s successful 40-year track record of constructing energy-efficient buildings. By bringing together the team’s accumulated experience with the latest advancements in building technology, each design offered by IBG Designs integrates substantial improvements at every project stage, ensuring both cost efficiency and high performance.
IBG Designs’ selection of high-quality, customizable building designs are offered at a discounted price compared to traditional methods.
Unlike large private developers focused on urban areas, IBG Designs is dedicated to supporting smaller organizations and builders in small to mid-size communities across Canada. Its expedited design process, combined with a de-risked construction approach, ensures faster project timelines. The techniques and technologies used in the designs are proven to lead to high-performance buildings with low operating and maintenance costs.
“Canada is facing both an affordability and a climate crisis. Tackling both will require a rapid increase in housing supply, built to a low-carbon standard,” says Melina Scholefield, Executive Director, Zero Emissions Innovation Centre.
“IBG Designs will put high-performance, climate-resilient, and cost-effective building designs into the hands of builders, speeding the development of low- and zero-emissions homes across Canada.”
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