This platform presents a framework for identifying and delivering housing within underutilized urban buildings, combining building analysis, infrastructure capacity, and redevelopment strategy into a scalable decision-making tool.
Site Intelligence
Cette plateforme présente un cadre permettant d’identifier et de livrer du logement au sein de bâtiments urbains sous-utilisés, en combinant l’analyse des bâtiments, la capacité des infrastructures et les stratégies de redéveloppement en un outil d’aide à la décision évolutif.
Site Intelligence Dashboard
Overview
The Site Intelligence Dashboard brings together building screening, infrastructure capacity, and feasibility analysis into a single, interactive environment.
Capabilities
Identify and prioritize high-potential redevelopment sites through geospatial mapping, filters, and ranking tools. Explore buildings across a region, refine results based on specific criteria, and drill into individual sites to access detailed outputs.
Outputs & Insights
Commercial and technical scorecards, building statistics, unit yield analysis, floorplans, massing studies, and financial models, which translate feasibility metrics into clear, site-specific redevelopment strategies.
Decision Support
Reduce early-stage uncertainty and accelerate decision-making in support of municipal urban renewal priorities, housing opportunities, existing asset evaluation, and investment rationale.
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Connect with our team to learn more about how these tools can support your housing, urban renewal and asset repositioning objectives.
Virtual Building Experience
Overview
The Virtual Building Experience is an immersive visualization tool that brings the project’s redevelopment strategies into a spatial, interactive environment. It allows users to explore how existing buildings can be transformed through adaptive reuse and vertical expansion.
What It Enables
The experience enables users to move beyond drawings and reports to understand redevelopment concepts in three dimensions. By visualizing both existing conditions and proposed interventions, users can better interpret how design, infrastructure, and spatial planning come together at the building level.
Experience
Users can navigate through a representative building, toggling between existing and proposed conditions. The experience illustrates key elements including unit layouts, vertical circulation, building systems, and ground-level transformations, providing a comprehensive view of how the building evolves through the redevelopment process.
Why It Matters
Adaptive reuse and vertical expansion involve complex technical and spatial considerations that can be difficult to communicate through traditional formats. The Virtual Building Experience reduces this complexity by translating analytical outputs into an intuitive, visual format, making the framework more accessible to a broader range of stakeholders.
Role Within the Platform
Within the broader platform, the Virtual Building Experience complements the dashboard by providing a qualitative layer of understanding. While the dashboard supports site identification and evaluation, the VR experience illustrates how those opportunities translate into real-world building outcomes.
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Interested in experiencing how these strategies can be applied to your buildings or projects? Connect with our team to learn more about the Virtual Building Experience and its applications.
931 Yonge Street
Overview
The 931 Yonge Street case study demonstrates the full application of the framework to a real urban redevelopment opportunity. The project transforms an existing 7-storey reinforced concrete office building into a 25-storey residential development through a combined strategy of adaptive reuse and mass timber vertical expansion, delivering 231 residential units within a highly constrained, transit-oriented site.
Development Approach
The proposal retains and converts the existing structure while introducing an 18-storey mass timber overbuild, enabled by a steel transfer system at the podium level. The design optimizes the existing floorplate for residential use, integrates new vertical circulation, and establishes efficient overbuild floorplates to maximize density.
The resulting program delivers approximately 161,674 square feet of residential GFA, supported by 28,867 square feet of non-residential space, including ground-floor retail and tenant amenities. A balanced unit mix, including 16% family-sized units, supports long-term residential viability within an urban context.
Technical & Infrastructure Feasibility
Feasibility is anchored in the capacity of the existing structure and servicing network. The building’s reinforced concrete frame, with a regular column grid and confirmed load-bearing capacity, supports vertical expansion through a hybrid structural system.
Existing municipal infrastructure, including 250 mm water service, 600 mm combined sewer capacity, and electrical servicing exceeding 2000 amps, accommodates the increased density with minimal off-site upgrades.
This integrated assessment confirms that both structural and servicing conditions are sufficient to support redevelopment at scale.
Performance & Outcomes
The project delivers high-density housing with strong environmental and operational performance, including:
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Approximately 70% reduction in energy use relative to baseline
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Passive House-level airtightness (~0.6 ACH)
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A mobility strategy prioritizing transit and cycling, with minimal on-site parking
Financial analysis indicates a viable development profile, supported by strong rental demand (~$5.05/SF) and absorption (~21 units/month), alongside a capital structure in the range of $132M–$134M. The inclusion of 30% affordable housing, secured through a long-term covenant, further strengthens the project’s social impact.
Role Within the Platform
This case study serves as a validated, end-to-end example of the framework in practice. It connects the analytical outputs of the Site Intelligence Dashboard with the spatial insights of the Virtual Building Experience, demonstrating how feasibility translates into a development-ready strategy.
Webinar Recording
Overview
The webinar serves as a capstone to the initiative, presenting the full framework, methodology, and tools developed through the project. It provides a structured walkthrough of how underutilized buildings can be identified, evaluated, and repositioned to support housing delivery.
What It Covers
The session brings together the core components of the platform, including the Site Intelligence Dashboard, Virtual Building Experience, and detailed case study work. It outlines how these elements are interconnected, demonstrating how the framework moves from initial screening through to development-ready outcomes.
Why It Matters
While the platform provides tools for interaction, the webinar offers a guided narrative that contextualizes the work. It translates complex technical analysis into a clear, accessible format, enabling a broader range of stakeholders to understand and engage with the approach.
Role Within the Platform
Within the broader platform, the webinar functions as a knowledge-sharing layer, supporting dissemination across municipalities, developers, and industry stakeholders. It reinforces the scalability of the framework and encourages adoption in different regional and portfolio contexts.