About
Fabrik is German for factory, where projects become products.
Fabrik Advisory helps construction and real estate work like a modern industry, with repeatable products, factory methods and technology. We work with the developers, builders and manufacturers who want to get there.
Chief Leonard George Building, Vancouver. Photo: Intelligent City
How we work
Insightful, strategic and pragmatic. Advice that holds up on the factory floor.
Rigour
Numbers, evidence and systems logic behind every recommendation.
Pragmatism
Advice that can be built, priced and implemented.
Ambition
Thinking at the scale of the industry, beyond the single project.
Openness
Candid about trade-offs and generous with knowledge.
Independent
Recommendations that fit your business, whoever supplies the work.
We work alongside your architects, engineers and fabrication partners, from the boardroom to the factory floor. We recommend what fits your pipeline and your organization, and we disclose any relationship relevant to your project before an engagement starts.
Fabrik Advisory is based in Vancouver and works with clients across Canada.
Founder
Oliver David Krieg
Oliver David Krieg founded Fabrik Advisory in 2026 after eight years at Intelligent City, where he joined as the first employee and served as Director of Technology, Chief Technology Officer and President.
He built the company's technology, engineering and manufacturing organization, helped grow it from 5 to 45 people and helped secure more than CA$30 million in equity and grant capital. He planned and commissioned its robotic factory and led the delivery of mass timber housing in Vancouver and Toronto.
Before moving to Canada, he led the timber research group at the Institute for Computational Design and Construction (ICD), University of Stuttgart, working on robotically fabricated timber buildings such as the Landesgartenschau Exhibition Hall and the BUGA Wood Pavilion.
- EducationPhD (Dr.-Ing.), summa cum laude, and Dipl.-Ing. in Architecture, University of Stuttgart
- PatentsNamed inventor on more than 10 granted and pending patents in modular construction and robotic manufacturing of mass timber
- RecognitionCanada's Top 40 under 40 (2026), Maclean's 40 Nation Makers (2025)
- PublicationsCo-editor of Advancing Wood Architecture (Routledge, 2016)