Intelligent City Inc. is hoping to play a key role in a future of affordable, sustainable buildings and viably dense cities
. Softbank-funded Katerra plotted a future filled with modular, prefabricated building pieces, but burned through billions and filed for bankruptcy protection last year.
“We really believe in the vertical integration of our technologies,” Mr. Lang added. “This idea of building better, building more sustainably, does not mean more expensive – it actually means less expensive.” With so much experience in dense cities “on the cusp of huge change,” Ms. Wilson said, she and Mr. Lang were interested in building high-quality housing that would embrace density and sustainability. Though prefabricated building pieces are more commonly used in single-family homes, they saw an opportunity to apply them to mid-rise buildings.
The startup partnered with robotics companies ABB and Brave to begin developing the physical technology to prefabricate pieces. Then they began hunting for factory space. Eventually, they settled on a location in Delta, B.C., 30 minutes south of their office.
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