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. 

Safety

We ensure a safe work environment to protect the health and well-being of everyone. 

Integrity

We are honest, trustworthy and respectful in everything we do.

Innovation

We foster new ideas and strive for excellence in every project.

Sustainability

We care about the environment and work actively on sustainable solutions.

Collaboration

We value teamwork 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.

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Meet Us

Recognizing Our Executive Leaders: The Visionaries and Trailblazers of Our Team

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Oliver Lang

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer

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Oliver Lang is CEO and Co-Founder of Intelligent City. He is an industry leading and award-winning entrepreneur, developer and architect, who has consistently contributed through innovation and built solutions in the areas of design for urban housing and cultural projects, technology development, off-site prefabrication automation, mass timber construction and carbon net zero building technology.

Oliver is providing new visions and solutions for mixed-use housing, advanced prefabrication and green building strategies. He has chaired the advisory urban design panels of UBC and the City of Vancouver, and frequently provides public key notes and lectures across Canada, North America and abroad. 

Oliver is also the Principal and Co-founder of LWPAC, a Governor General’s Medal winning architecture practice based in Vancouver since 1999. LWPAC is also the design architect for the NEXT Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.

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Cindy Wilson

Co-Founder and Chief Culture Officer

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Cindy Wilson is a Canadian designer and cultural entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience. She holds a professional Bachelor of Architecture and Bachelor of Arts degrees from the University of British Columbia.

Cindy has a broad and profound understanding of the cultural forces that shape our societies. She is active in urban and market research, building analysis, strategic planning, design and definition of livability, interior design, materiality and overall project quality control. 

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Oliver David Krieg

Chief Technology Officer

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Oliver David Krieg is an expert in computational design and digital fabrication in architecture and timber construction. At Intelligent City, he leads the development of parametric design methods and automated manufacturing technology for the company’s multi-storey, high-rise, mass timber construction systems.

Oliver’s focus is on enabling reciprocities between design, technology and materiality in order to re-conceptualize how architecture can be designed, fabricated, and constructed. 

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David Ferguson

Chief Financial Officer

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David was most recently VP Finance and CFO for Aquatic Informatics, where he spent 12 years helping grow the company from 5 employees to over 120. He took a key lead position in supporting the company through a corporate merger and sale of the business to a private equity firm. Over his 12 years at Aquatic Informatics he served in various roles including leading finance, accounting and human resources, and lead positions in operations, marketing and business development. 

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Kristin Slavin

Director of Product

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Kristin Slavin is Director of Product/Architect, bringing her expertise and thought leadership in mass timber construction and low carbon building design to the team. Her extensive experience as an architect, developer, and product manager of mass timber buildings and prefabricated building products has helped drive national building code changes and an industry wide shift to more sustainable building practices. Her built work includes Carbon12, the tallest CLT building in the US at completion.

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Leanne Duhamel

Director of 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.

Leanne leads with authenticity and is passionate about working with people and making a difference in the organization by developing values-led programs and practices and building high-performing and diverse teams.  She is dedicated to contributing to Intelligent City’s success by supporting its people to achieve success.

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David Wan

Director of Business Development

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David Wan leads our business development and communications initiatives. David has over 30 years of experience in development and marketing, working for some of the world’s largest property developers, and is the fulcrum that connects our technology with the marketplace. In a career that spans Vancouver, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Toronto, David has a unique understanding of real estate developers and homebuyers.

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.

With a portfolio that included airports, innovative commercial, institutional, and residential mass timber buildings under her belt, Mingyuk now leads the architecture team at Intelligent City, overseeing projects through all phases from schematic design through to occupancy.

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 winning and realizing international competitions to intimate residential renovations. His time at Bing Thom Architects allowed him to develop a keen eye for design and complex architectural and planning solutions that are in the true sense of the term ‘outside the box’. Marcos’s portfolio spans eighteen years of Bing’s most notable projects in Hong Kong, Washington DC and the Lower Mainland. These include higher education campus, performing arts theatres, community centres, libraries and multi-family projects. His subsequent tenure as Managing Director of Zeidler’s new Vancouver office was a unique opportunity to establish a local practice and grow it from the ground up. This experience included senior’s care, hotels, office and warehouses and allowed Marcos to develop and hone his administrative, management and business development skills. The cumulation of these two pivotal roles makes Marcos a truly well rounded, well connected and experienced asset in the architectural community.

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Careers

Opportunities at Intelligent City

We are looking for great people who have the skills and drive to help us create a better world. We offer competitive salaries, comprehensive benefits, and fulfilling work in an exciting environment. We want our work to be worthy of everyone’s commitment.

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