Our third post in a series of blog posts around our deep dive, ‘How to Build More Affordably” and the lessons we learnt. Find the first post and our overview video here. Written by: Shafraaz Kaba, Principal, ASK For a Better World In our exploration of the major costs in affordable housing, the cost of land […]
Category: Building Affordably
Housing Innovation: Contracting the Design and Construction Team Differently
Our second post in a series of blog posts around our deep dive, ‘How to Build More Affordably” and the lessons we learnt. Find the first post and our overview video here. Written by: Shafraaz Kaba, Principal, ASK For a Better World One of the simplest ways to reduce the cost of housing is to […]
Learning from Our Deep Dive on How Can We Build More Affordably?
The Affordable Housing Solutions Lab culminated in the prototyping phase this Summer. It has been a flurry of activity over the winter and spring, as the Innovations teams focused on new construction and retrofit sites and workshopped almost on a weekly basis. During these sessions, the Innovation teams went down a few rabbit holes but ultimately […]
Reflections on Deep Dive Workshop #3
Update: The Edmonton Affordable Housing Solutions Lab is nearing the completion of the prototyping phase. Two teams have been working diligently since December in creating prototype solutions with one team considering an existing building retrofit checklist and the other developing a framework for new housing. The teams have leveraged the diverse skills and experiences from […]
Reflections on Deep Dive Workshop #2
The second workshop in our deep dive created space to learn from others in innovative ways, and to break out into two teams to tackle the challenge. We started the day off by hearing from our first guest speaker, Mark Erickson, from Studio NORTH. Mark shared the project they had developed which won the City […]
Reflections on Deep Dive Workshop #1
What does success look like? This was our guiding question for our first deep dive workshop with industry experts and folks from the non-profit housing sector. Over an afternoon Shafraaz Kaba, our stellar facilitator, led our group through a series of exercises to answer the question, “what does success look like?”. There were a few […]
What does it take to make a home?
By: Shafraaz Kaba, Principal, ASK For a Better World Along with our facilitator, Shafraaz Kaba, we are beginning to work with industry experts and folks from the non-profit housing sector to think about housing affordability. We will document this journey here. Please see below for our first post detailing the start of this journey. What […]
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