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In this session, “Delivering Housing Fast: A Product Approach to Mass Timber Construction,” presenter Oliver David Krieg will offer a practitioner’s perspective on how industrialized construction methods can meaningfully address Canada’s housing shortage, drawing on real project experience to share lessons learned and a forward-looking view on scaling Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) for mid- to high-rise residential development. The session will explore Intelligent City’s integrated approach as a Vancouver-based designer, engineer, and manufacturer of prefabricated mass timber building systems, including the use of computational design, robotic manufacturing, and pre-engineered components to reduce construction time and cost while improving building performance. A live case study of the 230 Royal York Road project in Toronto—a nine-storey, 60-unit mass timber rental building delivered using components manufactured at the company’s Delta, British Columbia facility with industrial robotics and AI—will illustrate the end-to-end design-to-manufacture-to-assembly workflow. The presentation will conclude with key lessons from integrating off-site and on-site delivery and a discussion of the systemic changes required to scale MMC across the residential construction sector.
Oliver David (OD) Krieg is President at Intelligent City, and an expert in mass timber, industrialized manufacturing, and advanced building technologies in the AEC industry. With a PhD in robotics and parametric design for timber construction, he is leading the company's strategic vision and execution. Under his leadership, Intelligent City is scaling its mass timber product platform for high-rise multi-family housing by integrating building systems, advanced manufacturing, and software automation to revolutionize urban housing. Before becoming President, Oliver jointed Intelligent City as CTO in 2018 and helped raise a Seed Round and Series A as well as apply for several government grants.Prior to joining Intelligent City as CTO, Oliver was a research associate and group leader at the Institute for Computational Design and Construction (ICD) at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. There, he led and participated in several international research and built projects that explore architectural potentials in timber construction. The resulting material systems and prototypes evaluated the structural and spatial possibilities, ultimately pushing the boundaries of today’s architectural design research.Oliver taught workshops and held lectures on architectural design, manufacturing, and timber construction, across the world, as part of his academic career at the ICD, where he also taught in the ITECH MSc program. Between 2014 and 2017, Oliver was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation for his dissertation. His work won many national and international awards and was published in numerous magazines worldwide.In 2018, Oliver founded the design firm odk.design to continue his research in the dynamic relationship between manufacturing technology and contemporary wood design.
In this session, “Delivering Housing Fast: A Product Approach to Mass Timber Construction,” presenter Oliver David Krieg will offer a practitioner’s perspective on how industrialized construction methods can meaningfully address Canada’s housing shortage, drawing on real project experience to share lessons learned and a forward-looking view on scaling Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) for mid- to high-rise residential development. The session will explore Intelligent City’s integrated approach as a Vancouver-based designer, engineer, and manufacturer of prefabricated mass timber building systems, including the use of computational design, robotic manufacturing, and pre-engineered components to reduce construction time and cost while improving building performance. A live case study of the 230 Royal York Road project in Toronto—a nine-storey, 60-unit mass timber rental building delivered using components manufactured at the company’s Delta, British Columbia facility with industrial robotics and AI—will illustrate the end-to-end design-to-manufacture-to-assembly workflow. The presentation will conclude with key lessons from integrating off-site and on-site delivery and a discussion of the systemic changes required to scale MMC across the residential construction sector.
