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Implementing Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) alongside BIM technologies demands integrated collaboration across financial, contracting, design, and client teams. While industry discourse typically emphasizes construction scheduling, logistics, and economics, the architectural impacts—specifically the beauty, flexibility, and livability of these environments—are frequently overlooked.This presentation analyzes lessons learned from four regional applications: BIM integration (Richmond Yards), panelized glulam (Cunard Street), panelized CLT (Cabot Cliffs Clubhouse), and volumetric CLT (Modular Mass Timber Housing Prototype). Evaluating these projects offers insights into how teams can balance systemic technical efficiency with high-quality, dignified human experiences in the built environment.
Dr. Susan Fitzgerald is the design director of FBM and an Associate Professor at Dalhousie University’s Faculty of Architecture and Planning. Her research, teaching, and design work explore the social and spatial lives of cities and architecture to understand how they are experienced, what they mean to people, and the forces that shape them. The work investigates methods to listen, document, and understand life in and around constructed space to uncover architecture’s potential to foster care through design focusing specifically on housing, community facilities, and infrastructural spaces.
Implementing Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) alongside BIM technologies demands integrated collaboration across financial, contracting, design, and client teams. While industry discourse typically emphasizes construction scheduling, logistics, and economics, the architectural impacts—specifically the beauty, flexibility, and livability of these environments—are frequently overlooked.This presentation analyzes lessons learned from four regional applications: BIM integration (Richmond Yards), panelized glulam (Cunard Street), panelized CLT (Cabot Cliffs Clubhouse), and volumetric CLT (Modular Mass Timber Housing Prototype). Evaluating these projects offers insights into how teams can balance systemic technical efficiency with high-quality, dignified human experiences in the built environment.
