Naikoon Contracting recently joined the Zero Emissions Innovation Centre (ZEIC / ZEBX) Offsite Housing Accelerator to share a scalable model for localized offsite manufacturing. Naikoon President Joe Geluch, Tsleil-Waututh Nation Councillor Curtis Thomas, and ZEIC’s Alex Boston explored how integrating local forestry with Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA) accelerates housing delivery and builds community-led economic resilience.
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Naikoon’s Flying Factory™ directly supports British Columbia and Canadian federal mandates—to scale Modern Methods of Construction (MMC). By shifting manufacturing from centralized urban plants to mobile, localized hubs, this “full-stack” industry solution offers solutions for small communities and optimizes the value chain from raw wood fibre to finished architectural components.
The webinar highlights how the mobile factory model adapts to meet distinct community and economic priorities:
- Tsleil-Waututh Nation | On-Site Construction & Upskilling: Deployed directly on-site to accelerate a six-storey affordable, multifamily housing project, this Flying Factory™ serves as a live environment for trades training and business leadership.
- Old Masset Village Council | Value-Added Forestry & Trade Resilience: Co-locating a factory with the Haida Gwaii Forest Products mill creates a “Stump-to-Structure” value chain. Processing timber locally creates high-tech roles for local tradespeople while insulating the economy from softwood lumber tariffs and market volatility.
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