Grants and Contributions

The objective of this project is to advance international forest leadership through activities that focus on expanding international engagement, collaborations and partnerships, as well as expertise.

Organization and delivery of a technology mission to equip (and stimulate) SMEs in the sector to successfully transform to industrialization.

A set of digital tools was developed in 2024-2025 to facilitate the design process for multi-story buildings using standardized structural components. BIM objects, a Revit plug-in, and a collaboration portal including transport calculations and carbon impact have been implemented. Preliminary tests carried out on these tools have demonstrated the viability of the concept in facilitating exchanges between architects, structural engineers, and structural component manufacturers. Before deploying the tools on a large scale, concrete building projects must first be designed in which architects, engineers, and manufacturers will have the opportunity to use the tool and work in integrated project delivery. This will initially provide recommendations for user improvements and then evaluate the gains compared to the current back-and-forth method.

Support the participation of IRAP-eligible SMEs in a technical-educational mission to Scandinavia.

Equip and upgrade Quebec’s ecosystem of industrialized structural component manufacturers to increase housing production capacity in Quebec and North America, and reduce construction time and costs.

Build a viable forest value chain characterization and management tool for organisations, governments and the general public across Canada, collect and provide the means to share forest value chain data and information between organisations and with governments, enable supply chain traceability and geolocated forests of origin of wood fibre of products, generate and render general public information and confidential forest facts and figures about specific wood fiber supply chains, and promote the sustainability of Canadian forestry practices and forest product contribution to Canada's decarbonization goals.

The GoKit system will provide a multi-manufacturer response to high-volume affordable housing orders for domestic and foreign markets. It is agreed that the GoKit system will integrate low-carbon building practices and technologies to meet the needs of the target market in consideration of Canada's objectives for carbon-neutral buildings. The project in hand concerns the development of the third generation of the building system (phase 4 of the Gokit program).

Organization and delivery of a technological mission to equip (and stimulate) SMEs in the sector to succeed in their transformation towards industrialization.

As a whole, the GoKit project aims to create a digital design platform, a constructive system (LMD oriented) and an innovative business model (multi-manufacturer oriented) for the development of the ecosystem associated with modular construction in order to meet high volume orders for the Canadian and American markets.

Modeling of a DFMA platform of prefabricated building systems optimized for the design, manufacture, delivery and installation of buildings of a repetitive nature in order to minimize costs in the context of multi-manufacturer projects.