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 Lang
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
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Oliver is CEO and Co-Founder of Intelligent City. He is 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
Co-Founder and Chief Culture Officer
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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.
Oliver David Krieg
Chief Technology Officer
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Oliver David (OD) Krieg is an expert in mass timber and industrialized manufacturing in the AEC industry, and holds a PhD in robotics and parametric design in timber construction. OD is leading the development of their mass timber product platform for high-rise multi-family housing, combining building systems, manufacturing, and software development.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
