Demand is soaring for prefab homes. So why isn’t Canada seeing rapid growth?
Global News
Developers of prefab housing say they are getting thousands of queries about factory-built homes. So why is the supply unable to match up?
As Canada grapples with a housing crisis, manufacturers and developers of pre-fabricated (prefab) housing are seeing a surge in demand, but say they don’t have the capacity to meet those demands.
Robert Pierson, the development director at a Vancouver-based prefab home development firm called Eco Homes, told Global News that demand has been soaring for factory-built homes.
“We get a thousand inquiries a month coming in to the website for our modular homes. And that’s spread across Canada and a little bit down into northern U.S.A.,” Pierson said.
Pre-fabricated housing or prefab construction is a method of building where the bulk of the construction happens off-site, often in a facility, like a factory. Either a fully constructed modular home or parts of a house are then shipped off to the location, where it is assembled and connected to utilities.
Pierson likened it to buying an entire car in parts and having a mechanic assemble it in your garage.
“There is a growing interest in prefab,” Jesse Page, with the Collingwood, Ont.-based custom home building firm Legendary Group, told Global News.
He said panelled construction is particularly generating a lot of interest.
“The substantial structural work is done in panels to be ready to finish a home just significantly faster, as much as 50 per cent faster.”
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