going to send our best players to help actively launch plants and facilities that create housing at a rapid and affordable rate. And then once they’re established, we’ll fully hand over the ownership, we’ll move on, and we’ll do it again.” Another long-term play for Grand River Modular – though they are initiating it right away – is they have a “circular business model that will train and register Red Seals in multiple disciplines at a rate never before seen.” “I can’t disclose much more than that, other than to say if people are interested in the concept they need to get to a reserve and speak to an elder,” Gene says. Finally, in the even longer-term, Grand River Modular is interested in expanding internationally. Canada is currently their main focus – “because we have to help ourselves before we can help others” – but once they are firmly established, Gene says “the sky’s the limit.” Their next logical expansion would be into the United States, but more urgently they want to work “wherever the need for housing is the greatest.” “There is no limit for us in terms of exports,” Gene says. “Our units are not only designed as modular, volumetric, turnkey builds – we’ve designed them and energy modeled them so that we can flat-pack them as subassemblies should the need arise. That way we can ship them economically to virtually anywhere in the world.” JULY 2024
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