Commercial buildings
hauled to Yellowknife.
Storage, industrial and commercial buildings, built complete indoors in the south and hauled north finished. Herauf has already delivered an industrial storage facility to Yellowknife and homes to Hay River.
Who builds modular buildings for Yellowknife?
Herauf Modular builds them complete indoors in the south and hauls them north finished. It has delivered an industrial storage facility to Yellowknife, engineered for far-north conditions, and residential homes to Hay River. Its nearest site, the St. Paul yard in Alberta, is about 1,550 km from Yellowknife by road.
The full range is on the commercial modular buildings page, and what drives the price is in how much a commercial modular building costs.
- By road from the St. Paul yard
- 1,550 km
- NBC climate zone, Yellowknife
- Zone 8
- Meets or exceeds
- CSA A277
What is local to Yellowknife?
- Delivered here
- An industrial storage facility built off-site and hauled to Yellowknife, engineered for far-north conditions.
- Delivered in the NWT
- Residential homes built in Herauf's facilities and trucked to Hay River.
- Distance
- The St. Paul yard, Herauf's nearest site, is about 1,550 km from Yellowknife by road (measured on OpenStreetMap road data).
- Climate
- The National Building Code lists Yellowknife at 8,170 heating degree-days, climate zone 8, with a January design temperature of minus 41 °C and a ground snow load of 2.2 kPa. Herauf builds for zones 6 through 8.
- Public tenders
- The GNWT buys through Procurement Shared Services in the Department of Finance, with offices in Fort Smith, Hay River, Inuvik and Yellowknife, and publishes its current opportunities and awarded contracts.
- Standard
- Meets or exceeds CSA A277 and the National Building Code.
Storage and industrial buildings
Herauf's Yellowknife job was an industrial storage facility built off-site, engineered for far-north conditions, and hauled to Yellowknife finished. Storage buildings like it are built to order rather than picked from a catalogue size, for food, equipment or industrial storage. Herauf built a food storage facility for a camp near Whitecourt the same way.
Warehouses are not among the buildings Herauf lists; what a ready-to-move storage building can be is explained in what an RTM warehouse is. The Yellowknife project is written up at Yellowknife industrial storage.
Built in the south, finished before it goes north
Every Herauf building for the territory is built complete indoors in the south and shipped whole, so what happens in Yellowknife is setting, connecting and inspecting rather than building. Herauf's nearest site, the St. Paul yard in Alberta, is about 1,550 km away by road. Homes for Hay River went north the same way, built in Herauf's facilities and trucked to the community.
Buildings for northern and remote places go by highway, by winter road and ice road when the ground is frozen, or by barge where a coast or a lake allows it. How that is planned is on northern and remote modular buildings.
Built for climate zone 8
The National Building Code lists Yellowknife at 8,170 heating degree-days, which puts it in climate zone 8, with a January design temperature of minus 41 °C and a ground snow load of 2.2 kPa. Herauf's buildings meet or exceed CSA A277 and the National Building Code for climate zones 6 through 8.
For a territorial or institutional buyer, the GNWT buys through Procurement Shared Services in the Department of Finance, which publishes current opportunities and awarded contracts. Herauf's supplier details and a printable capability statement are on procurement and supplier information.
Delivered in the Northwest Territories.
Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
Yellowknife Industrial Storage
An industrial storage facility built off-site and hauled to Yellowknife, engineered for far-north conditions.
Hay River, Northwest Territories
Hay River Residential Housing
Residential homes built in Herauf's facilities and trucked to Hay River, bringing quality housing to the Northwest Territories.
Floor plans for Yellowknife projects
Published layouts with the dimensions, floor area and rooms as printed in our brochures.
Site offices, safety offices and quarters
Offices, retail and food service
What else do we build
for business and community?
- Commercial modular buildings Offices, medical, institutional and industrial buildings
- Modular office buildings Offices, site offices and safety offices, on skids or foundations
- Modular daycares and schools Daycares for 30 to 90 children, classrooms and program offices
- Modular washroom and shower buildings Nine barrier-free configurations, installed in days
- Workforce camp and site buildings Quarters, site offices and camp buildings on steel skids
- Modular medical clinics and pharmacies Medical centres, first-aid units and pharmacies
- Modular multi-family buildings Duplexes to twelve-plexes, and an eight-suite complex
- Northern and remote modular buildings Delivered by road, ice road and barge
- Commercial modular buildings in Regina Built at the Zehner plant, 20 minutes from Regina
Common questions.
Who builds modular buildings for Yellowknife?
Herauf Modular builds them complete indoors in the south and hauls them north. It has delivered an industrial storage facility to Yellowknife, engineered for far-north conditions, and residential homes to Hay River.
What climate zone is Yellowknife?
Climate zone 8. The National Building Code lists Yellowknife at 8,170 heating degree-days, with a January design temperature of minus 41 °C and a ground snow load of 2.2 kPa. Herauf's buildings meet or exceed CSA A277 and the National Building Code for climate zones 6 through 8.
How far is Yellowknife from Herauf's facilities?
About 1,550 km by road from Herauf's St. Paul yard in Alberta, its nearest site. Buildings are finished before they leave, so the work on site in Yellowknife is setting, connecting and inspecting rather than building.
Where does the GNWT post its tenders?
GNWT procurement runs through Procurement Shared Services in the Department of Finance, which has offices in Fort Smith, Hay River, Inuvik and Yellowknife and publishes current opportunities and awarded contracts on its procurement pages.
Sources
- OpenStreetMap road data (routed with OSRM, measured October 2026), OpenStreetMap contributors
- National Building Code of Canada 2020 (Appendix C, Table C-2, and Section 9.36), National Research Council Canada
- Procurement Shared Services, Government of the Northwest Territories, Department of Finance
Road distances are measured from the town of St. Paul to the centre of Yellowknife and rounded to the nearest 10 km. Delivered projects are from our case studies.