NRB Modular’s Rapid Response Modular Supportive Housing
Concept Owner / Company: NRB Modular (fmrly – Horizon North Modular Solutions)
Website: https://nrbmodular.com/
Additional URL: https://dexterra.com/modular-solutions/
Contact: rhys.kane@dexterra.com
NRB Modular (formerly known as Horizon North) has designed and built over 1,500 units of modular supportive housing for the Modular Rapid Response to Homelessness program in BC Canada.
A repetitive, scalable approach has been developed with a proven baseline design. With standard modules, a kit of parts, and detailed specifications guideline. We maintain standardised modular building layouts to provide repetitive work and economies of scale, resulting in fast-tracked design-development, consulting, municipal permitting timelines and construction.
The modular units address an immediate need for the homeless population. Typical units consist of 250-sq.ft self-contained studios, and the buildings have common amenity areas. The buildings are placed on a relocatable foundation, so the buildings can be moved to future sites.
- Quoted Total Cost: $7,500,000
- Planned Occupancy (1 person/bed): 60 beds
- Estimated Cost Per Bed: $125,000
- Quote’s Total Interior Square Footage: 27,000 sqft
- Quote Includes # Units: 60 units
- Used for Shelter Before: Yes, but only outside the U.S.
- Readiness: Ready (In Stock)
- In Stock / Ready to Ship Today: Yes
- Manufacturer Identified and Available: N/A
- Setup Speed: <90 days
- Setup Difficulty: Moderate (prefab assembly)
- % Built Onsite: <10% – Arrives Ready, Almost All Built/Assembled Off-Site
- Portability: Portable (after major disassembly)
- Intended Use of Shelter: Long Term/Permanent (15+ years)
Foundation System “Home Tour”
Design
| Design Advantages | Temporary by design (built to permanent code), the modular 3-story buildings provide single room occupancy with common amenity space, on a multi-point steel relocatable foundation |
| Manufacturer Identified | Yes |
| Used for shelter in the U.S.? | No, Canada only. |
| Prior use examples | Over 1,500 units built in BC Canada |
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| Intended use cases | Shelters: emergency facilities that offer short-term space Transitional housing: accommodation for six months to three years with extensive support services. Supportive housing: long-term accommodation with varying degrees of support services depending on the needs of the users |
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| Roof Load (PSF) | 0 |
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| Professional Engineer Stamp? | Meets California Building Code requirements for Factory Built Housing, and local permitting requirements |
| Conforms to ICC’s Temporary Structure and Uses Code | |
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| Materials Used / Made of: | wood-frame modular construction |
| Disassembly / Assembly Comments: | Built to permanent code – fully relocatable (including foundation) |
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| Add-on Items | Relocation cost for dissembly and reassembly is estimated to be approximately $1 million for 60-bed facility. | |
| Check all items that are not included in your quote (i.e. would need to be quoted by outside party) | The budget excludes site civil/infrastructure/site utility costs and all soft costs | |
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