Category: Affordable Building & Low Income Households

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The Blossoming Blossom Park

March 9, 2023

Here is a short video tour of our Indwell Blossom Park affordable housing site under construction in Woodstock, Ontario. Another #passivehouse project, this is our first time using the prefab Build SMART LLC system. This first group of panels were installed in just a few hours. https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Finvizij%2Fvideos%2F349064019172796%2F&show_text=0&width=560&wmode=opaque A sunny day for our Trigon Construction crew at our #BlossomPark in Woodstock. Foundation walls continue, with first framing…
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Build SMART Believes in Building Affordability

March 9, 2023

Every industry must modernize if they expect to meet the demands of our evolving world. The construction industry is no different As a report from McKinsey & Company points out, the construction industry is in need of serious innovation. The Terner Center released a new paper exploring the benefits, barriers and breakthroughs needed to significantly…
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Build SMART is Proud to be Part of the Solution

March 9, 2023

The shortage of affordable housing is becoming critical across the United States. We are very grateful to all the developers that have been turning to BuildSMART for high performance, high quality affordable housing solutions. We agree wholeheartedly with the premise that every American should have safe, decent and affordable housing. This article documents the 2018…
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Building Affordability, Piece by Piece

March 9, 2023

BuildSMART is well aware of America’s well-documented affordable housing crisis which is often framed in terms of the big urban areas, where housing and living costs are sky high and rapid gentrification pushes rents and prices up and lower-income residents out. But the affordability crisis is also playing out across rural America. At BuildSMART we…
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Prefabricated and Factory Built

March 9, 2023

With demand for Passive House-quality panels and modules on the rise, the factories producing these goods are expanding in number, capacity, and production. Most are new businesses producing Passive House-performance exterior wall, floor, and roof panels. Yet a strong contingent of existing businesses are also growing their product lines to include higher-performance, thermal-bridge-free Passive House…
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