The third annual Off-site Construction Student Design Competition will showcase student design innovation in modular, prefabricated, panelized and other types of off-site construction. The competition is presented by the University of New Brunswick Off-Site Construction Research Centre (OCRC), a research group dedicated to optimizing alternate solutions to on-site construction.
The competition will challenge project teams composed of students and industry professionals with real housing challenges faced by New Brunswickers across the province and will look for teams to innovate with off-site construction solutions.
The objective is to develop a modular design for a housing unit that will be ‘open source’ and be used by manufacturers to meet the demand for affordable housing in New Brunswick. The design will focus on a repeatable volumetric module that can be used to combat the “missing middle housing” problem.
