That's fair enough.
The Advanced Building Innovation Company, which I co-founded with my business partner Troy van Haastrecht, is a venture that has set out with nothing less than the mission and the vision of a full reform of the homebuilding sector. We are a land development company and a homebuilding company. We founded the Advanced Building Innovation Company to make some changes to the way new homes are built and land is developed.
Our main focus relates to the implementation of a home system and component manufacturing, robotics and automation, including integration of data, data science, machine intelligence—I'll use the coined words—artificial intelligence and machine learning.
We have a software division that's focused on the proliferation and innovation of generative design technologies, optimization and combinatorics. For anyone who is interested in those sectors, we can talk further. I would say that's a big part of our business, as well as research and development related to the homebuilding space.
In particular, today I'll talk about two main things. The first is that we are building one of the largest home and advanced manufacturing centres in Canada here in Ottawa. It's actually at the periphery of the honourable Pierre Poilievre's riding. In particular, the centre is going to showcase the latest in advanced robotics and software innovation to dramatically improve not only the energy performance, but also the quality, affordability and construction timelines for new home product in this region and also outside of this region.
We see our facility as really, at the end of the day, the genesis of a reform to our industry from fairly rudimentary practices, historically, to really embracing the latest of full ship-to-shore, cyber-physical manufacturing systems. We are not only researching and developing our own robotic technologies, but we're also looking at innovative ways on site to assemble these manufactured home products using robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence to simplify the logistics around supply chains, the materials and the material waste that comes from new home construction. In particular, we're using software innovation to dramatically change the way homes are being designed.
What's possible now, using some of the software innovations we've been working on, dramatically changes the extent of the materials that are required for a new home and how that new home performs for the end consumer. Most importantly, it also addresses aspects of affordability.
These are all big bucket topics that I can focus on in more detail if anyone is interested. The presentation's slide deck shows images of some things that we're doing and some of the areas that we hope to address in our sector.
In our software development group, we're also innovating in other sectors. Some of our optimization and mathematical approaches to optimization are now being embraced by other sectors, which we can talk about, to minimize waste, improve efficiency and to make use of the valuable resources that go into product delivery across several sectors.
We see not only this region here in Ottawa as an important economic hub for this future sector, but we also see Ontario and Canada being well positioned as a leader in this space. We hope that export potential into the United States, for example, is something that we can take advantage of.
The big ticket issue and the big elephant in the room today obviously is commodity pricing—the cost of lumber and wood products. Housing affordability is influenced by many factors, the cost of land, the limited land supply, inflationary pressures with monetary policy, but also the dramatic change and inflation we're seeing around the goods and commodities that go into new homes. I would strongly urge anyone who's listening and would like to make a difference to think about lumber as we would any other product, like petroleum and others. It's an essential part of our economy and needs to be carefully considered.
That being said, we are not a supporter of broad government support for business. We feel business needs to stand on its own two feet. We do, though, believe that....
My time's up. I apologize for that.
Thank you.