Aboriginal home builder aims for 2015 plant startup – Northern Ontario Business
Aboriginal home builder Bernie Bird is counting on a fat order book this summer to start the cash flowing toward erecting a composite home manufacturing factory inDryden.
His company, AlterNative Homes, is aiming to break ground on a panel plant in the city’s industrial park by late summer and be in operation by mid-winter or spring of 2015.
In early June, the Edmonton-based Bird and vice-president Leon Tirums were building a 15- by 36-foot demonstration home at Eagle Lake First Nation in preparation for an early July showing for an invited guest list of 20 First Nation chiefs from across northwestern Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta.
The company hopes to build off of a successful showing of their building system at the Assembly of First Nations annual conference in Toronto.
