100,000 HOMES • 10 YEARS • CANADA-WIDE
Solving housing starts
with changing how
housing gets built.
Aspen is building a new model for housing delivery that makes more projects viable, reduces risk, and expands access to attainable homeownership across Canada.
We combine land partnerships, creative ownership structures, innovative financing, and an adaptive building system to make more housing projects viable, more predictable, and faster to deliver.
A different way to design, manufacture, finance, and deliver housing at scale.
Image by Christine Lintott Architects for Aspen Community Developments
Canada doesn’t just need more homes.
It needs a better way to build them.
The housing shortage is not only a supply problem. It’s a delivery problem.
Canada needs more housing than ever before.
Yet too many projects never move forward.
Rising costs, lengthy timelines, labor shortages, site constraints, fragmented deliver teams – conventional construction models often cannot adapt without adding more complexity, delay, and cost.
To build the homes Canada needs, we have to change the model behind the build.
Image from Reframe Systems
Aspen is not conventional prefab.
Most prefab systems achieve efficiency through standardization.
The product stays the same because the factory needs it to.
When site conditions, regulations, climate risks, or community needs change, those systems often become more expensive, more complex, or less effective.
Aspen flips that model using Reframe Systems.
Instead of forcing the building to adapt to the factory, the factory adapts to the building.
The same manufacturing system can deliver townhomes, apartments, and other housing types without rebuilding the process each time.
Different projects. Different sites. One system. One factory.
Images from Reframe Systems
The system gets better every time it builds.
Reframe Systems uses a manufacturing process configured and improved through software rather than relying only on physical tooling. Performance data feeds back into the system, reducing costs, improving efficiency, and making future projects easier to deliver.
Unlike traditional construction, where each project largely starts over, improvements compound over time.
It's customization without the traditional cost penalty.
And it’s a housing system designed to handle variability without losing efficiency.
Most construction becomes more expensive as projects become more complex.
The Aspen-Reframe building system becomes more efficient with every project it delivers.
The more housing
we build, the faster
and more efficient it becomes.
For people, that means being able to design communities for real sites and real people, and deliver attainable, climate-resilient housing at scale.
For partners, that means greater certainty, reduced construction risk, and more predictable project outcomes.
8x
Faster delivery
Move-in ready multiplex homes delivered in months, not years.
2.5x
More efficient labor
Less labor required to build each home.
1
Accountable system
Design, manufacturing, and delivery all under one roof.
71%
Less energy use
Climate-resilient homes with lower operating costs.
Solving housing requires more than a better building system.
Better construction is only part of the equation.
We bring together land, capital, community partnerships, and advanced construction technology into a single integrated model designed to unlock housing opportunities that conventional approaches often cannot.
Municipal partnerships
Transform underutilized public land into housing.
Non-profit and community partnerships
Partner with non-profits, faith groups, and community organizations to bring housing project forward.
Land for equity
Contribute land. Share in the outcome.
Direct acquisition
Acquire strategic sites for future development.
Housing isn't just a construction challenge.
It's a land challenge, a capital challenge, a climate challenge, and a community challenge.
Aspen brings those pieces together in a single model designed to create better outcomes.
Housing people can afford.
Attainability isn't achieved through lower construction costs alone. It requires innovative financing, creative ownership structures, efficient delivery, and homes designed around real needs.
Aspen combines all four.
Communities built for a changing climate.
Climate resilience isn't an upgrade added later. It's built into the homes and the long-term operating costs of the community.
Neighborhoods designed for connection.
The housing crisis isn't only about housing supply. It's also about social connection. Aspen neighborhoods are designed to foster belonging, interaction, and long-term wellbeing, not simply maximize the number of housing units on a site.
Building 100,00 homes is ambitious. Changing how Canada delivers housing is even bigger.
By 2035, Aspen will set the standard in Canada for building thriving, affordable communities in Canada.
Our ambition is to deliver 100,000 homes across urban, suburban, and rural communities nationwide.
Aspen combines adaptive building technology, innovative financing, creative ownership structures, and land partnerships into a single model to make more housing projects viable and more communities possible.
By bringing these elements together, we're addressing three of Canada's biggest housing challenges: affordability, climate resilience, and social isolation.
That's Aspen: a new way to create thriving, affordable communities at scale.