Leaders in Innovative Urban Housing Solutions
We lead the industry in mixed use urban housing, green building strategies, digital design, manufacturing, and robotics in timber construction.
Our Values
Our Urban Housing Solutions
Embody Our Founding Principles
People
We believe people are our most important asset and the source of our success.
Safety
We ensure a safe work environment to protect the health and well-being of everyone.
Integrity
We are honest, trustworthy and respectful towards everyone and our environment.
Innovation
We foster new ideas, rethink, and strive for excellence in every project.
Sustainability
We care about the environment and work actively on sustainable solutions.
Collaboration
We value teamwork and every colleague in all aspects of our business.
Intelligent City acknowledges that its work takes place in Vancouver on the unceded, traditional, and ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples and on the unceded, traditional, and ancestral territories of the scəw̓aθən (Tsawwassen), xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), and other Coast Salish peoples at its Delta location.
Our Philosophy
Founded in 2008, Intelligent City’s mission is to empower people to live better urban lives. The company has been a leader in innovative urban housing, sustainability, building technology and design methodology and has gained municipal approvals and broad government support for its mass timber building system and technology development. Through the convergence of high-rise mass timber, design engineering, automated manufacturing and parametric software, the company is introducing a sustainable, adaptable, and product-based paradigm for the delivery of urban housing solutions.
We are a team of ambitious, open-minded, and motivated architects, designers and engineers. Drawing on a multi-faceted range of interests and qualifications, we create innovative, uniquely sustainable urban living solutions. A new kind of integrated and design- and technology-driven company, we offer unique opportunities. We bring together a diverse, highly skilled team united in the belief that technology innovation can enable an ecological, economical, and sustainable future.
Meet Us
The Executive Leadership of Intelligent City
Oliver David Krieg
President
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Oliver David (OD) Krieg is an expert in mass timber construction and industrialized manufacturing in the AEC industry. With a PhD in robotics and parametric design, OD serves as the President of Intelligent City, leading the company’s strategic vision and execution. Under his leadership, Intelligent City is scaling its mass timber product platform for high-rise multi-family housing.
Oliver Lang
Chief Product Officer,
Co-Founder
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Oliver is Co-Founder of Intelligent City and an industry-leading and award-winning entrepreneur, developer and architect, who contributed to the built environment through innovation, design, and technology development. Oliver is also principal of LWPAC, sister company of Intelligent City and an award-winning architectural practice.
Cindy Wilson
Chief Partnership Officer,
Co-Founder
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Cindy Wilson is Co-Founder of Intelligent City, and a Canadian designer and cultural entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience. As someone interested in the forces that shape our society, Cindy is active in urban and market research, building analysis, strategic planning, design and definition of livability, interior design, materiality and overall project quality control.
Mike Scott
Chief Financial Officer
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Mike is a finance and business professional, and a lawyer with over 30 years of experience. Before joining Intelligent City, Mike was CFO at Terramera and CEO at Nexterra. Before that he worked as an investment banker and lawyer.
Gavin McQuade
Senior Vice President, Operations
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Gavin is an executive operations manager with more than 25 years experience in the timber, machining, and construction industries. Gavin has a background in finance and mechanical engineering. Before joining Intelligent City, he was managing CLT production at Kalesnikoff Mass Timber.
Leanne Duhamel
Vice President, People
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Leanne leads the People-HR function at Intelligent City. As a senior HR professional her well-developed experience spans across industries, including software technology, construction, and engineering. She is a Chartered Professional in HR (CPHR-BC) in Canada and SHRM-Senior Certified Professional in the USA.
Nicholas Hamel
Vice President, Automation
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Nicholas is an expert in manufacturing and software automation, with a background in architecture as well as mechanical engineering. At Intelligent City, he is responsible for the innovation and implementation of manufacturing technologies and software automation workflows.
Diana Banakh
Vice President, Projects
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Diana Banakh has over ten years experience in the consulting and real estate industry. She has a background in environmental urban planning and civil engineering technology, with a passion for sustainable design and architecture. Diana has a very diverse experience consulting on and managing projects in residential, commercial, and industrial industries.
Mingyuk Chen
Associate Director of Projects
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Born and raised in Hong Kong, Mingyuk completed her architectural studies at McGill University and went on to build a 16-year career at influential Michael Green Architecture and predecessor McFarlane Green Biggar Architecture + Design, where she accumulated extensive experience in mass timber design and construction, including commercial and institutional buildings.
Marcos Hui
Associate Director & Practice Leader
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Marcos has over twenty years of architectural experience with a wide breadth of project experience ranging from international competitions to intimate residential renovations. Marcos’s portfolio spans eighteen years of design and planning with Bing Thom Architects’ most notable projects in Hong Kong, Washington DC and the Lower Mainland.
