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This year on the sealift, we\u2019re already bringing the raw material up to Arviat to start the production,\u201d said Guillaume Guida, Sakku Investments Corp. vice-president of business development. Modular construction is a process where components for houses are built off-site in a factory, shipped out to where the home will be located and assembled there. The roughly 64,000-square-foot factory \u2013 nearly the area of four hockey rinks \u2013 with a 21,500-square-foot warehouse, situated in Nunavut\u2019s third-largest community of roughly 2,900 residents, is expected to produce about 40 homes a year. 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