An Actual Solution to the Housing Crisis w/OD Krieg of Intelligent City.

Attend the Mass Timber Group Summit: https://www.masstimber.group/summit Join our newsletter and get access one of the largest directory of companies in the industry: https://www.masstimber.group/newslett... We have a housing problem. The upstream cause isn't zoning or interest rates. It's that we still build essentially the same way we did sixty years ago. This week's episode is with OD Krieg, co-founder of Intelligent City, the company behind the largest prefabricated mass timber residential project in North America. He's building what an actual solution looks like: industrialized, productized, scalable across cities. Projects like this don't happen alone. Behind every mass timber building, architects, engineers, manufacturers, and developers are working together. So we turned that network into something practical: a curated directory of companies shaping the industry. Use it to discover key players, explore collaborators & understand who’s driving innovation. → Access the Mass Timber Industry Directory by Joining our Newsletter: https://www.masstimber.group/newslett... 0:00 – Industrialization isn't standardization 1:02 – Why the housing crisis is upstream of zoning, interest rates, and labor 2:31 – What's actually broken in how we build multifamily today 7:15 – Productizing components, not whole buildings 10:17 – Why mass timber was the right product decision 15:44 – Designing flexibility into a repeatable system 20:30 – 230 Royal York: the 9-story Toronto proof point 25:54 – The Vancouver factory 30:20 – Pilot plant vs. commercial factory 33:10 – The million-dollar lesson on automation 38:32 – What's next: 420 units in Ottawa, 1,000 in Barrie