Comments on: Residential construction workforce needs to double: BuildForce /joc/news/economic/2024/04/residential-construction-workforce-needs-to-double-buildforce Canada's construction news Mon, 22 Apr 2024 19:19:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.3 By: Brandon Searle /joc/news/economic/2024/04/residential-construction-workforce-needs-to-double-buildforce#comment-80071 Sat, 20 Apr 2024 11:24:26 +0000 /?p=362715#comment-80071 At the UNB Off-site Construction Research Centre, we are currently working on a project to assess capacity and capability of the modular (or what I prefer to call the Industrialized Construction) sector with the ultimate goal of helping companies scale up to meet demand. As mentioned towards the end of the article, scaling up comes with some risk but there are many companies across the country who have been able to scale up when needed and mitigate risks associated with this.

The government can help by 1) creating sustainable demand, 2) helping manufacturers scale up (grants or interest free loans to improve efficiencies and offer training across the whole sector – owners, developers, lenders, designers, etc. as well) and 3) removing barriers presented through policies and standards to using industrialized construction methods (I’d argue this is the most important).

The UNB OCRC and many of our colleagues both in industry and academia are working to help achieve this.

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