Homes on site
in days, not seasons.
Evacuations, floods and housing shortfalls do not wait for a build season. We finish the home in our Saskatchewan plant and deliver it to your community, winter road and fly-in sites included, on a steel skid that needs no foundation.
What is rapid response housing?
Rapid response housing is finished, code-built housing delivered to an evacuation, flood or housing-shortfall site in days rather than seasons. Herauf finishes each home in its Saskatchewan plant on a steel skid that needs no poured foundation, with plumbing, electrical and heating self-contained, and delivers it by highway, winter road or to fly-in sites.
The skid is the difference from a permanent build: the home sets down on prepared ground, is connected in days, and can be lifted and moved again when the emergency ends or the community's permanent housing is ready.
Days
From delivery to occupancy
No foundation
Steel-skid mounted
Self-contained
Utilities, no services needed
Relocatable
Move when the need moves
Councils, provinces,
and departments.
Housing that has to arrive on a deadline is almost never bought by one person with one budget. Here is how the three groups who buy it from us are set up, and what that means for the contract.
First Nations and Métis communities
Band and tribal councils buying housing directly or through a program. Herauf works with First Nations communities, including homes delivered to St. Theresa Point First Nation over winter ice roads.
Provincial emergency management
Evacuee accommodation, interim housing and the washrooms and offices a reception site needs. The units come back and redeploy to the next event instead of being written off.
Federal departments and agencies
Construction that meets or exceeds CSA A277, with supplier details and a printable capability statement published on our procurement page.
Finished homes, on the road north.
Finished, not framed.
Steel skid under every unit
The skid is welded in our own shop. The home travels on it, sets down on it, and lifts off again years later, so there is no poured foundation to wait on and no crane pad to build first.
Utilities that arrive with it
Water tanks, pump, water heater and heat-recovery ventilation ride inside the unit. It can stand on a site with no services at all, and tie into community water and power on the day those reach it.
More than beds
Washrooms, classrooms and offices are built on the same line, to the same code. A reception centre or a work camp needs those before anyone can actually stay on the site.
The same unit, configured to stay
Communities use these to move people out of temporary shelter and then keep the asset. It is an all-weather home built for zones 6 to 8, not a trailer that has to be replaced in five years.
The unit,
and the skid under it.
Two short films: what a deployment looks like, and how the steel skid lets a finished building set down on ground that has no foundation.
Deployment, answered.
How fast can units be on site?
Units are built before they are needed and ride on steel skids with their own utilities, so delivery and occupancy are measured in days from the request rather than the weeks or months conventional construction takes.
Do we need a foundation or utility hookups first?
No. Every unit sits on an engineered steel skid, which removes the poured foundation, and carries its own plumbing, electrical and HVAC. It can go onto a remote or service-limited site now and connect to services when they exist.
Do you deliver to fly-in and winter road communities?
Yes. Homes for St. Theresa Point First Nation travelled roughly 700 km over winter ice roads. Road, rail and barge routes are planned as one chain, and the schedule is built around the season the route is open.
Can the community keep the units afterward?
Yes, and most do. The units are engineered to be moved repeatedly without losing structural integrity, so the same assets can serve an emergency, then transitional housing, then permanent housing on a different lot.
How is this bought?
Directly, or through provincial and federal housing and infrastructure programs. Herauf Modular's supplier details and a printable capability statement are published on the procurement page.
Tell us the site
and the date.
Send us the community, the number of units and when they have to be standing. We will come back with what can be on the ground by then.