2019 Agenda

Keynote 1
8:45 – 9:45am

1. John Burns,
   Founder & CEO of John Burns Real Estate Consulting, LLC
2. Margaret Whelan,
   Construction industry strategist and financing expert

Breakout Session 1
10:30am – 12:15pm

Track 1

Systems as Solutions
Financing Offsite Construction
Was 2018 an investment inflection point? Financing construction innovators. Are lending practices keeping up with the offsite trend?

1. “Was 2018 an investment inflection point?”
   Margaret Whelan, Founder & CEO of Whelan Advisory
2. “Topic TBA”
   Tom Coronato, Loan Officer, New Construction Specialist, Citizens Bank

Track 2

Adapt, Integrate, Collaborate
Educating General Contractors, Architects and Engineers – Panel

1. Alex Schreyer, Senior Lecturer, Building & Construction Technology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
2. Mike Jackson, Ph.D., P.E., Chair & Professor Clemson Construction Science and Management
3. Robert Hairstans, Head of the Center for Offsite Construction, Edinburgh Napier University
4. Peggi Clouston, Professor, Wood Mechanics and Timber Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Track 3

Potential, Performance and Practicalities
Environmental Impacts of Wood Based Construction

1. “Building a Climate-Stable Future: How engineered wood products can address climate change”
   Mark Wishnie, Director Global Forestry & Wood Products, The Nature Conservancy
2. “The Forest or the Trees: Rethinking Timber’s Carbon Footprint”
   Sara Tepfer, Sustainability Consultant, Arup
3. “Certification’s role in industrialized wood-based construction”
   Annie Perkins, Senior Director Strategic Partnerships, Sustainable Forestry Initiative

Breakout Session 2
1:45 – 3:30pm

Track 1

Systems as Solutions
The Case for Modular Construction

1. “Affordable Quality Homes at a Low Price for All”
   Jerker Lessing, Director R&D, BOKLOK, an IKEA / Skanska Joint Venture Company
2. “Modular for Hotels and Multi-Family, why would you do it any other way?”
   John Erb, General Manager, Champion Commercial Structures
3. “Make Modular Construction Work for your Next Multifamily Project”
   Vaughan Buckley, President, Volumetric Building Companies

Track 2

Adapt, Integrate, Collaborate
Re-engineering the Supply Chain

1. “Re-Engineering the Supply Chain”
   Dominique Briand, CEO, Structure Fusion
2. “Iterate to Optimize: How to build a high production team culture to deliver fast, high quality results”
   Paul Bandrowski, CEO, Inphastos
3. “Leveraging the Component Industry to Provide Efficient Wood Based Structures”
   Kirk Grundahl, Executive Director, Structural Building Components Association

Track 3

Potential, Performance and Practicalities
Building Codes & Fire Safety

1. “Tall Wood Construction: New Code Provisions, Design Steps and Impacts on North American Markets”
   Ricky McLain, Sr Technical Director Tall Wood, WoodWorks
2. “Design of Timber Concrete Composite Floors for Fire”
   Erica Fischer, Asst Professor, Oregon State University
3. “What Codes and Regulations are telling us about Mass Timber”
   Joe Kelly, President, Mass Construction Consultants

Keynote 3
8:45 – 9:45am

1. Craig Curtis,
   Katerra’s Chief Architect

Breakout Session 3
10:30am – 12:15pm

Track 1

Systems as Solutions
“Super-Subs” vs. “End to End”

1. “Building Offsite is more than just prefab”
   Ryan Melin, President, Innovative Construction Group
2. “Nail It! A system for an easier, faster, and better way”
   Jason Blenker, CEO Blenker Companies
3. “Panelized Building Systems and the Transformation of Site Roles and Responsibilities”
   Jay Lepple, Team Leader Building Systems Unity Homes (Bensonwood)

Track 2

Adapt, Integrate, Collaborate
Robotics & Artificial Intelligence

1. “Prefab and industrial grade robotics is the next leap forward in house building”
   Ola Skoglund, Chief Operating Officer, Randek Robotics
2. “An AI Software Tool which Designs I-joist Floors Automatically”
   Luke Whale, PhD, Technical Director Earlybird Technologies Ltd.

Track 3

Construction Materials & Methods
Today’s state-of-the-art, in terms of how structures can be built

1. “Topic TBA”
   Stefan Zoellig, CEO Timber Structures
2. “Mass Timber: Shifting more of the Process Offsite”
   Gary Williams, President, Timber Systems Limited
3. “Standardization, Customization and Design for Manufacturing”
   Alfred Porsche, President ProWood Consulting & Area Manager Canada SEMA Software

Keynote 4
1:45 – 2:45pm

1. Phil G. Bernstein, FAIA, RIBA, LEED ® A,
   Pioneer of BIM, former VP at Autodesk, now Associate Dean, Yale’s Architecture School