Building Toronto's Skyline with Nick Ainis

On this spirited episode of Building Toronto's Skyline, Nick Ainis chats with Darius Saplys, VP of Operations/Director, API Consultants & Saplys Architects. They chat, they spar, they love... do not miss this battle of the giants.

In this episode of Building Toronto's Skyline, Nick Ainis chats with Oliver David Krieg, President at Intelligent City. OD is an expert in mass timber construction and industrialized manufacturing in the AEC industry. With a PhD in robotics and parametric design, OD serves as the President of Intelligent City, leading the company’s strategic vision and execution. Under his leadership, Intelligent City is scaling its mass timber product platform for high-rise multi-family housing.

In this episode of Building Toronto's Skyline, Nick Ainis chats with Paul Frith, President, Ontario Geothermal Association & JPF Consulting about the benefits of low carbon and energy efficient technologies.

On this episode of Building Toronto's Skyline, Nick Ainis chats with Bob Blazevski, President & CEO, BlazeUrban, about his insight from over three decades in GTA real estate development.

On this episode of Building Toronto's Skyline, Nick Ainis chats with Sherry Larjani, President at Spotlight Developments Inc. Sherry had worked with two Toronto architectural firms when she realized she wanted to bring her designs to life and get into the development side of the industry. The rest is history.

In this episode of Building Toronto's Skyline, Nick Ainis leaves the GTA and speaks with Gabrielle Bonneville from Bonneville Industries, a 4th-generation family business and one of Canada's leading manufacturers of pre-built homes.

On this episode of Building Toronto's Skyline, Nick Ainis chats with Derek Goring, Chief Executive Officer of Northcrest Developments, about his 20+ years of experience in large scale mixed-use real estate development.

On this episode of Building Toronto's Skyline, Nick Ainis speaks with Member of Parliament Jennifer McKelvie who is the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Housing and Infrastructure.

Nick and Jennifer discuss the Liberal housing plan that promises to create Build Canada Homes (BCH) to get the federal government back into the business of home building, by:

• acting as a developer to build affordable housing at scale, including on public lands.
• catalyzing the housing industry by providing over $25 billion in financing to innovative prefabricated home builders in Canada, including those using Canadian technologies and resources like mass timber and softwood lumber, to build faster, smarter, more affordably, and more sustainably.
• providing $10 billion in low-cost financing and capital to affordable home builders.

On this episode of Building Toronto's Skyline, Nick Ainis chats with Adrian Dyer, Chief Design Officer at Design for Happiness, about his architectural journey that took him from London, Ontario, to London, England, and back again.

In this episode of Building Toronto's Skyline, Nick Ainis chats with Les Klein, a Principal and co-founder of Quadrangle Architects in Toronto. He is committed to the idea that urban design, city building, and architectural excellence all play vital roles in enhancing the quality of community life.