Industrialized construction and technology strategy
From projects to products.
Fabrik Advisory helps developers, builders, and manufacturers bring industrialized construction and technology into their business. We set the strategy and implement it, as advisors or fractional technology and product leaders.
What we do
Three lines of work, from strategy to implementation.
Technology and product strategy
Technology roadmaps, product definition and platform decisions, including adoption and implementation alongside your team.
For leadership teams deciding where to invest, and in what order.
Industrialized construction and MMC
Business cases for prefab and MMC, factory and platform strategy, and design for manufacturing and assembly.
For developers and builders adopting prefab, and manufacturers building a platform.
Fractional leadership and R&D
Part-time CTO, CPO or COO roles and applied R&D, for companies that need the capability before they can hire it.
For companies that need senior leadership to carry the strategy into practice.
Where we come in
Industrialization works when strategy, product and factory are planned as one system.
Developers, builders and manufacturers know technology and industrialized construction could change their business, but rarely have the in-house capacity to get there. Clients usually come to us with one of these questions.
- Should we launch, rethink or scale a factory or platform?A platform and factory strategy that fits your volume, product mix and partners.
- Why do our designs keep failing at manufacturing?Design rules and DfMA reviews that fix the problem upstream, where it starts.
- What technology roadmap will our investors find credible?A roadmap that ties every investment to a product and a market.
- We need a CTO. Can we hire one yet?Senior technology leadership, part time, until the permanent role is clear.
- Does prefab or MMC pay off for our project or pipeline?A business case that counts schedule and cash flow as well as cost.
How we work
We recommend, then we stay to implement.
- 01
Diagnose
A few weeks with your pipeline, cost data, partners and people. The result is a clear view of where industrialization pays in your business, and where it does not yet.
- 02
Decide
Business cases and a roadmap, phased so that each phase ends in a decision only your leadership can make.
- 03
Implement
We stay to put the plan into practice with your team: pilots, partner selection, product definition, and fractional leadership where you need it.
Track record
Fabrik Advisory is new. The experience behind it is not.
Every engagement draws on 14 years of work led by Oliver David Krieg at Intelligent City and the University of Stuttgart: robotic timber research, a robotic factory and delivered mass timber housing.
230 Royal York Road
Prefabricated mass timber structure and envelope for a nine-storey residential building.
As President, Intelligent City
Chief Leonard George Building
Prefabricated Passive House facade for 79 units of social housing.
As CTO, Intelligent City
Robotic panel factory
Planning, commissioning and ramp-up of a factory with multiple robot cells for wall and floor panels.
As CTO, Intelligent City
BUGA Wood Pavilion
A 30-metre wood shell of 376 robotically fabricated segments.
Research lead, ICD, University of Stuttgart
- 14 years
- in industrialized timber construction
- 10+
- patents granted and pending
- CA$30M+
- equity and grant capital helped secure
- 5 to 45
- people, from seed stage to production
Insights
Latest thinking
Your Building Is Already 48% Pre-Manufactured
Part one of two: Introducing a standardized way to measure prefabricated value and cost in construction
Nov 3, 2026
StrategyFrom projects to products
Construction redesigns its product every time it sells one. What changes when a company treats its building system as a product.
Oct 19, 2026
PolicyGrowing the mass timber industry in Canada
Canada can build an all-Canadian value chain from forests to cities. Where government can create the demand, and where it can help build the supply.
May 12, 2025
Founder
Oliver David Krieg
Oliver David Krieg has spent 14 years taking industrialized timber construction from research to production. At Intelligent City he was the first employee, then CTO, then President, and led the delivery of mass timber housing in Vancouver and Toronto. Before that he led the timber research group at the ICD, University of Stuttgart.
- EducationPhD in robotic manufacturing and computational design, University of Stuttgart
- PatentsNamed inventor on more than 10 granted and pending patents
- RecognitionCanada's Top 40 under 40, 2026