That's a great question.
It's an industry that is much smaller in Canada than we'd like it to be. In Europe and Asia, the modular or off-site manufacturing industry is much larger. In Sweden, we hear that over 50% of homes are now manufactured in factories. It's less than 5% in Canada, and that's in comparable climates.
There's a huge advantage to manufacturing parts or entire homes, but in many cases it's panel-based construction that happens in factories, and then those panels are put together like Lego on site. Those factories can run 24-7, year-round, regardless of the weather, in the winter in particular. They have much more flexibility in terms of job sites, so they are great opportunities for jobs and partnerships with labour.
We've had real excitement around that and making sure we're building faster and more affordably. When you get scale and when you get three shifts in a factory, you can deliver more affordability faster.
