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MAy 25, 2023

For years, Han Gartner was tried of scraping the mud off the floor of his cottage. In 2017 and 2019, his dwelling on Kedey's Island in Fitzroy Harbour, Ont. flooded, leaving him to clean, disinfect and dry out what was left of it. And dispite all the trouble it took him to redo it each spring, he couldn't afford what he thought was the only alternative: a concrete foundation...He found a soultion, however, after he saw a TV segment about Mulitpoint Foundations, located just 15-minutes away from Fitzroy Harbour...

December 3, 2021

Resilient Duplex (on Multipoint Foundations) for Fort Severn First Nation wins Canadian Architect’s 2021 Award of Excellence.

June 2020

We were there to see the progress as the Gartners, CDS Construction and Triodetic MultiPoint Foundations raise the historic cottage several feet above its original height to protect the cottage from potential future flooding.

April 2020

Triodetic Multipoint Foundations has been using their patented system to build large, open-spaced buildings since the 1960s such as airport hangars and giant dust domes for the mining industry – buildings without pillars – and has now moved their innovative patent in to creating foundations for homes that need a stable footing, or perhaps a bit of a lift in times of flooding.

February 2020

Through the support of Indigenous Services Canada Budget 2016 funding, Fort Severn implemented the use of the innovative Triodetic Building System. Utilizing this system Fort Severn has constructed new duplex houses that are able to withstand the changing permafrost and maintain a stable foundation.

December 26, 2019

One local company has a unique solution to a recurring natural disaster. The 2017 and 2019 floods affected many homes, especially those right on the Ottawa River. To prevent any further damages, Arnprior construction company Triodetic Multipoint Foundation has developed a system to raise homes located within the flood zone.

December 12, 2019

Following the devastating floods of 2017 and 2019, an Arnprior company says it has a solution that will prevent damage to homes in flood-prone areas. “The system is designed to help the homeowner keep his property in case of future flooding,” says Peter Chabursky with Triodetic Multipoint Foundations. “It’s like an insurance policy.”

June 4, 2019

An Arnprior business may have a solution to save homes from future spring flooding.Triodetic, a subsidiary of Plaintree Systems in the town’s industrial park, makes a “multipoint foundation” from steel or aluminum rods connecting to specially-designed connector poles. They’ve built the floating foundations for flood zone customers from as far away as San Francisco and are in talks with others as near as Mississippi Lake. Lawrence Morroni sees it as a solution for what could be a recurring phenomenon along the Ottawa and other area rivers.

May 18, 2019

'Triodetic' tubular foundations are impervious to water flow. An Arnprior, Ont., company that manufactures special foundations for buildings in the far north says the technology could be a solution for homeowners facing repeated flooding here.

April 2019

The reusable reconfigurable design and multipoint foundation system allows for the entire building - from ramps to recycling containers and paving stones - to be demobilized and reassembled at another site in the future at a fraction of the time and cost of constructing a new building.

April 2018

The urgency of the problem made modular construction which involves building individuals units in a factory and then transporting them to the site for the final assemble, a natural choice. According to manufacturers modular constructions is 30 to 50 percent faster and often less expensive then conventual construction methods.

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