Northern modular buildings,
delivered where roads end.
Homes, dormitories and community buildings finished complete inside our facilities, then moved to your community by road, rail, sealift barge and winter ice road. Engineered for sustained cold, ready to connect on arrival.
How do modular buildings reach northern communities?
Modular buildings reach northern and remote communities built complete in the south and shipped whole: by highway, by winter road and ice road when the ground is frozen, or by barge where a coast or a lake allows it. Herauf builds in Zehner, Saskatchewan and finishes Alberta-bound units at St. Paul, then delivers as far as the roads or the ice go.
Frozen ground carries loads that spring thaw cannot, which is how finished homes travelled roughly 700 km over winter ice roads to St. Theresa Point First Nation in northern Manitoba, and how a full campus reached a remote bush site at Kidney Lake for NAIT.
- Remote and northern projects delivered
- 10
- Over winter ice roads to St. Theresa Point
- ~700 km
- National Building Code climate engineering
- Zones 6-8
- Meets or exceeds
- CSA A277
Built south, finished complete,
shipped north.
A northern build is a logistics problem before it is a construction problem. We plan production and the delivery chain as one schedule, so the building and its transport window arrive together.
Built to your barge date
Production is scheduled backward from the sealift booking so units reach the port ready to load. Most builds are manufactured and delivered in roughly 16 weeks.
One delivery chain
Road, rail, barge and air planned together, right through to the community, rather than a handoff at the dock.
Ice-road timing
For fly-in communities, we build through the off-season in controlled facilities and time delivery to the winter ice-road window.
Complete on arrival
Finished inside, so local crews set and connect instead of building from scratch. Installation is measured in days.
10 remote and northern projects,
already standing.
Fly-in communities, remote bush sites, the Northwest Territories. Each one links to how it was built and how it got there.
Kidney Lake, Alberta
NAIT Remote Forestry Campus
14 dormitory buildings, 3 classrooms, and food storage, rebuilt for NAIT's remote field school and ready for the September intake.
St. Theresa Point, Manitoba
St. Theresa Point Housing
Homes built off-season and delivered ~700 km north over winter ice roads to a fly-in community reachable by ground only when the ice roads form.
Île-à-la-Crosse, Saskatchewan
Île-à-la-Crosse Youth Friendship Centre
Small homes built off-site and delivered to a northern Saskatchewan village in support of youth and community services.
The Pas, Manitoba
Northern Ice Road Youth Housing
Youth housing built off-site and hauled north over winter ice roads, delivered ready for a northern Manitoba community.
Fort McMurray, Alberta
Oil & Gas Camp Workforce Housing
Workforce housing units manufactured off-site and convoyed to an oil and gas camp, ready for crews on arrival.
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.
Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
Yellowknife Industrial Storage
An industrial storage facility built off-site and hauled to Yellowknife, engineered for far-north conditions.
Whitecourt, Alberta
Oil & Gas Camp Food Storage
A dedicated food storage facility for an oil and gas camp, built off-site and delivered directly to the site.
Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation, Manitoba
Nisichawayasihk Northern Housing
Northern rapid portable housing on the Herauf skid system, built off-site and delivered north into the community.
Nelson, British Columbia
Nelson Mountain Delivery
A finished residential home hauled through the mountains into Nelson, British Columbia.
Past the last road.
AI concept images from the plan for Herauf Helicopters, a future Herauf Enterprises division: a module carried to a site no truck can reach.
Partnership, climate
and the build itself.
Delivery is one part of a northern project. How we work with Indigenous Nations, how the buildings handle the climate, and what remote communities should weigh each have their own page.
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
- Commercial modular buildings in Regina Built at the Zehner plant, 20 minutes from Regina
- Design-build commercial contracts Design, engineering, manufacturing and set under one contract
- Wildfire-resilient modular buildings Metal roof, metal siding and steel doors for wildfire country
Common questions.
How do the buildings actually get to Nunavut?
By road and rail to the port, then north by sealift barge during the open-water season, with air freight where the schedule demands it. Herauf plans the whole chain as one move rather than handing you off at the dock.
When do we need to commit for this year's sealift?
Most builds are manufactured and delivered in roughly 16 weeks, so the order date works backward from your barge booking. Talk to us early in the planning year and we will map production to the window.
Are the buildings engineered for the Arctic?
Yes. Every unit meets or exceeds CSA A277 and the National Building Code for climate zones 6 through 8, with a continuously insulated, airtight envelope built for sustained cold.
Have you delivered to remote northern communities before?
Regularly. Homes to St. Theresa Point First Nation roughly 700 km over winter ice roads, housing at Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation, a 56-room dormitory campus for NAIT at a remote Kidney Lake, and industrial storage in Yellowknife, among other northern projects.
Can community and territorial funding be applied?
Yes, and Herauf works alongside band, municipal and territorial funding programs. Separately, the Herauf $15,000 Build Credit (not a government grant) applies where a project is eligible.