The Climate Cycle

Industrializing Mass Timber Construction with OD Krieg, Intelligent City

22 May 2025

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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 mattersWhat’s slowing down construction, from financing models to permittingWhat it takes to get developers and builders to shift mindsets and start exploring mass timber and prefabThe role of Canada’s forest supply chain in enabling sustainable constructionOD’s vision for local factories building homes across across the countryYou’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.📬 Subscribe to the Climate Tech Canada newsletter Get weekly updates on Canadian climate tech funding, industry news, and trends directly to your inbox. → ⁠⁠Check out the full show notes & resources mentioned in this episode⁠⁠→ Support the show with a review on Spotify and Apple!→ Send feedback and episode ideas to [email protected]

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Industrializing Mass Timber Construction with OD Krieg, Intelligent City

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3ª PARTE | 17 DIC 2025 | EL PARTIDAZO DE COPE

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