As Quebec try to solve housing crisis, modular homes emerge as potential solution [Video]

With all three levels of governments looking to find ways to build more housing and faster, one Quebec builder says it has the solution.

Bonneville Homes is in the business of what it calls pre-engineered housing often referred to as “pre-fab” or “modular” homes.

At Bonneville’s Beloeil factory everything is timed out. The plant has 16 stations, three hours each.

“Every three hours, a module comes out of the factory, we wrap it,” Dany Bonneville, co-president of Bonneville Homes, said. “When we’re ready to install the modules, we bring them close to the site and then we install them.”

Close to 75 per cent of a home or an apartment building is constructed indoors. That means the building isn’t exposed to extreme weather.

“We install a multiplex in Beloeil about a year ago, the Monday morning, there was a foundation and four days and a half after, there was a …