[Roaring Flames]

Add the airport west runway rehabilitation to that list too

 

[CalgaryTiger]

This will be great city when they're done with it.

 

[haltcatchfire]

I just hope I live long enough to see some of these random rectangle buildings being the ones demolished.

 

[outoftheice]

The Feds just dropped their housing catalogue. I'll be curious to learn how well their design choices function with Calgary's existing zoning and whether Admin and builders adopt the designs.

Federal government unveils designs as part of the Housing Design Catalogue - Canada.ca

Today, the federal government released the final renderings, floor plan layouts, and key building details as part of the Housing Design Catalogue, an initiative under Canada’s Housing Plan. The catalogue features some 50 standardized housing designs for rowhouses, fourplexes, sixplexes, and...

www.canada.ca

Some of the catalogue designs for Alberta:

 

[CalgaryTiger]

The Feds just dropped their housing catalogue. I'll be curious to learn how well their design choices function with Calgary's existing zoning and whether Admin and builders adopt the designs.

Federal government unveils designs as part of the Housing Design Catalogue - Canada.ca

Today, the federal government released the final renderings, floor plan layouts, and key building details as part of the Housing Design Catalogue, an initiative under Canada’s Housing Plan. The catalogue features some 50 standardized housing designs for rowhouses, fourplexes, sixplexes, and...

www.canada.ca

Some of the catalogue designs for Alberta:

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So these are for private developers to use? Or is this for a national home building program? I think it is the former.

 

[haltcatchfire]

Those are absolutely useless. You can't drop a universal design just anywhere.

 

[FCC1982]

Those 4-plexes - ooof

 

[Mountain Man]

So what's the point of these?

 

[haltcatchfire]

So what's the point of these?

To house all the returnees from World War III.

 

[boreal96]

The designs do look good.

 

[outoftheice]

So these are for private developers to use? Or is this for a national home building program? I think it is the former.

It's for private developer use. Essentially the idea is to save time and money for getting new infills approved which should open it up to more smaller builders. Future federal infrastructure funding for provinces is meant to be tied to provincial governments approving the designs. Some more info from catalogue...

 

[Mountain Man]

Interesting idea, wonder if we will see any go up...

 

[lemongrab]

I don't know if its enough of a bottleneck in the building process, but it could probably save a decent chunk of time and money if enough prefab elements can become more ubiquitous...and perhaps they could integrate even more items like electrical/plumbing into each prefab piece? Or ability to achieve more scale on certain materials?

 

[darwink]

So what's the point of these?

So the Feds can in the future tell a city: no more grants unless your bespoke zoning code accommodates these plans on at least X% of lots, to stop municipalities from gaming their code to not allow housing while claiming the opposite.

A secondary thing would be with newer developers. Maybe the first project as a new developer is substantially derisked by assured permitting, and lower price with lower professional fees, and everything reducing the length of time capital is needed.

 

[shermanator]

Not exactly a construction update, more of a validation of the recent work Leonard Development Group has done in Marda Loop.

Bella's patio was full and there was a 30 minute lineup to get a sandwich at Bonjour. Consistent stream of people. Marda Loop Brewing's patio was full as well.

Starting to become quite the destination.