Building for a more sustainable future with Green Canopy NODE

Our mission here is to bridge the sustainability and affordability gap that exist in residential construction and doing so without reducing the quality. We have a lot of work to do. We know that by around two thousand and fifty, there's gonna be nine point five billion people. We're already faced with a housing shortage. The building entry is responsible for up to about forty percent of the carbon emitted into the world. Sustainability is becoming more and more important. We're building with materials that embody a lot of carbon.

There's not a lot of planning upfront. If you're just kind of taking material onto a site and building it and then tossing out what's left over, now you have a waste situation.

And then you also have just supply chain logistics. Parts are coming from over here and over there. The trades have really become depleted. People are aging out of that industry, and no one's there to backfill.

We need to figure out a way to build more efficiently, build more effectively. There had to be a better way. Manufacturing has been doing it for a really long time. It's been great working with Abby. She's someone that is coming into the building industry with fresh eyes, seeing what we're doing and raising their hands and being like, why are you doing it this way? It can be done a different way.

Industrialized construction guaranteed product at the end. We're just enabling guaranteed product at the end. We're just enabling people to make better decisions. Architects are artists.

They're producing beautiful pieces of work, where an engineer, we are like cheaper, faster, better, stronger. It's compromised. You do understand where architects coming from. The architect also needs to understand, we gotta make homes for people.

We gotta get them out the door. Informed design for Inventor, it is the master planner. It really lets me set up the parameters and the boundaries which the architect can take. Inventor users, they speak Inventor language.

And a Revit user, an architect, they just wanna know that what they're working on is right.

For Abby to be able to hand me a data set that has parameters built into it, it allows me to flex my design muscle still feeling like I own the design of the building, but also knowing that what I am designing is gonna be able to be built. You're not getting a static object that you're forcing into a building footprint. You're getting something that is flexible, that can be tailored within those constraints to fit the needs of a design.

Informed Design for Revit, it really synthesizes all of the data that's out there. I can validate the decisions that I'm making. That was considered luxury.

Now, with that information at our hands, it's no longer luxury, which is something that we get to do effortlessly.

If they put up a wall as an engineer, I know how much material. I know how much it's gonna cost. I know how long it's gonna take.

Informed design helps address the labor shortage. We're taking work that would traditionally be done on-site, taking it off-site in a controlled setting. You can hit those those tighter tolerances and create a better building and do it faster and cheaper than what you would see on-site.

The kit of hearts, it's your bucket of toys. With our company, we have a couple different kits. For us, it's a way of creating products that are not singular, that work together, and not just work together within our systems, but ultimately work together with external systems as well.

Anyone can assemble it with with very minimal experience. But on top of that, it just opens up a whole new revenue stream for the individual products for the building components.

Now we can take customized high end residential design details and just mass produce it. That is really exciting from an architect standpoint.

I think it's just the start of how it changes the industry. We can push this manufacturing and engineering information directly into an architect's hand. What else can we give them? And what can the architects give us? It's starting a dialogue that many more people need to have.

Informed Design has shown that there is a way to bring customized details, good aesthetics, quality engineering into a product that can be mass produced that is good for the planet, is good for the inhabitants, and it's good for the building industry.