Building system with I-Joists up to 8 floors

Build up to eight floors with a light wooden frame! The system consists of panels, walls and floors, where external walls and walls separating apartments, are load-bearing and the floor structures can handle up to nine meters of free span, which provides a great deal of architectural freedom when it comes to design the buildings. The system meets high demands on fire, sound, statics and energy consumption.

Low CO2 footprint

More than 90 percent by volume of load-bearing structures consists of wood, including the load-bearing frame of I-joists, wind-stabilizing boards of wood and insulation of wood fiber. The system has one of the lowest CO2 footprints of industrial building systems in the world, and it can be made even better by replacing painted gypsum boards with coloured clay plaster.

Raw materials from Canada

Canada as a country is very rich in natural resources and the raw materials needed to build our wooden houses are mainly to be found within the country’s borders.

Factory Production in Canada

Panels can be manufactured in many existing Canadian factories. Equipping the factory to manufacture panels for the building system requires much less resources than a modular factory with the same capacity.

Weatherproof construction on site

Precipitation in connection with the installation of wooden houses causes very high costs every year. Building with weather protection is a prerequisite for an industrial process and ensures a good quality of the finished product.

Industrial process based on Lean

At the factory, production is most advantageous set up as line production, where the products flow through different stations in the factory in a paced flow. On site, different teams are set up that work on a limited task, similar to a station in a factory, and the team move through the product, the building, in a paced flow. Each Team performs the same tasks in each zone, a zone can correspond to an apartment and the pace is normally one day per zone. All tasks that the Teams perform are described in detail in so-called element sheets. In this way, it is easier to train new people to work in the system and it is also not necessary to have the same prior knowledge as on a traditional construction site. They also work with other Lean tools such as 5S, daily pulse meetings and continuous improvements. In this way, you can create industrial conditions also on site, which secures time, work environment and quality.

Prefabricated bathrooms

Manufacturing completely finished bathrooms in a factory reduces costs, among other things, because you reduce the work on site and at the same time you reduce the risk of water damage during the life of the house.

Digital support systems

The design work is done in 3D and to create a complete and accurate 3D model of the entire building and its systems, which is a prerequisite for the industrial system to work. We usually say that you build the original digitally and the physical building becomes an exact copy of that. The drawing work is largely automated, and you not only simulate exactly what each part should look like, but also where and when it should enter the process. When the model is ready, it is connected to ERP and MPS systems where each part is handled as a unique item, which facilitates purchasing, production and accounting. In this way, it becomes possible to handle large amounts of data with minimal effort of working time.

Installations

When it comes to heating and ventilation, it is possible to use different configurations depending on the local conditions. Distribution of heat can take place with, for example, radiators or underfloor heating. Fan-reinforced natural ventilation in combination with passive geothermal heating is a conceivable combination if you want a simple and uncomplicated ventilation system with low maintenance costs.

Scalability

Everything we develop is based on the premise that it should be possible to carry out on a large scale.