Northern Workforce Lodge
800 Rooms · Central Core + Dormitories · Northern Alberta
A full workforce village built for a major Canadian energy producer at a remote resource site in northern Alberta. The 800-room lodge pairs multiple three-story modular dormitory buildings with a 360' × 176' central core housing two dining halls, full commercial kitchens, recreation, and administration — a self-contained community delivered through factory-built steel modules.
The Challenge
The client needed to house 800 workers at a remote northern site with no local trades, a compressed schedule, and winter temperatures that make conventional on-site construction impractical. Quality of life mattered too — the accommodation had to feel like a community, not a camp, to support recruitment and retention.
Our Solution
We engineered the entire lodge from steel modular units — each private room, with its own ensuite, built and finished off-site, then stacked three high on insulated foundations. The central core consolidated dining, recreation, and services under one roof. Cold-climate detailing (ICF foundations, heated service spaces, sprayed-foam and rockwool insulation) kept the buildings operating through deep-winter conditions, and the design targeted LEED Gold.
Project Highlights
800 private rooms, each a self-contained module with its own ensuite bathroom
360' × 176' central core with two dining halls and full commercial kitchens
Recreation level with two theatres, a fitness centre, and multi-use rooms
Steel modular, container-based construction — rooms built and finished off-site
Cold-climate engineering — ICF foundations, heated service spaces, high-R insulation
On-site hockey rink, sport fields, courts, and parking for 400; LEED Gold targeted
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