View the Agenda
Book a Building Tour
Book Your Exhibit Space
Explore the Exhibit Hall
Become a Sponsor Today
View Sponsors & Partners
Thursday, March 28, 2024
Global Perspectives: International Mainstream Adoption & Models for Project Success
Oregon Ballroom 204 | Overflow: A105–106Moderator:
Bending the Arrow of Housing Affordability: How Integrated Mass Timber Building Systems with AI Change the Cost
By taking a product and platform-based approach to delivering new construction, pairing that with mass timber building materials, there is now a way to simultaneously address housing affordability and climate change. Using robotically-assisted manufacturing, it is possible to complete new builds 30% quicker, lowering operating costs by 50%, and reducing the cost per home as well.
The Dutch Miracle: A Wood Building Revolution
In The Netherlands new buildings are commonly built from brick and concrete. Timber frame construction used to be limited to roofs and facades only. But within a decade this changed radically. Wood is now the focus of interest as a building material. Dutch architects and developers are creating the most fascinating wooden buildings, in search of a new idiome, such as the:
- 5-story all wooden Triodos Bank building,
- HAUT Amsterdam, one of the tallest hybrid buildings in the world (76 meters),
- industrial looking 8-story Liander building, and the
- bioinclusive, renter-owned De Warren.
In the same period several factories for wooden houses were founded that are building on an industrial scale. Their output runs in the hundreds yearly already and they are planning for thousands a year.
What happened in the low countries? What methods are used? What challenges are there to be met? What can we learn from this all?
Jan Maurits Schouten
Het Houtblad Magazine, Houtwereld Magazine, www.hethoutblad.nl
Timber Goes Mainstream: Navigating Real-World Shifts
Embark on an educational journey as Henning Larsen Architects share real-life experiences from various timber projects worldwide. Delve into the practical aspects of timber adoption, spotlighting visionary educational initiatives, extraordinary exhibition spaces and innovative office solutions. Explore the seamless adaptation and integration strategies that propel timber into the mainstream. Gain valuable insights into project processes, contractor selection, and other learnings, offering a holistic perspective on the journey of timber adaptation in the mainstream.
A Mass Timber Paradigm Shift: Levering Computation, Engineering, and Procurement Strategies
As mass timber features in increasingly high-profile buildings worldwide, efficient design and procurement approaches are imperative. From landmark institutional projects at Johns Hopkins University and University of Kansas to Asia’s largest timber structure, Tianfu Agricultural Expo at 750,000sqft, Lucas will explore engineering and procurement approaches for delivering mass timber across a range of scales and geographies. Learn how creative structural engineering and a close design partnership between architecture and structure enables efficient and beautiful mass timber structures.
Pivoting to tech, get a sneak peek at Branch: a groundbreaking new software platform designed to unify structural engineering, detailing, and digital manufacturing. With a focus on mass timber and carbon-target design approaches, Branch enables real-time sizing and optimization — a step-change from current analysis and design software — and paves the way for use of AI in designing the future of mass timber.
Product to Planet
From hand-held product to a city-building scale, Leon demonstrates how wood can be an integral aspect of a concept design, and carry through into execution. Google projects in California and London deploy mass timber as structural complement to steel and concrete systems, and as a carbon-sequestering complement to green and PV roofs. Zooming out to a global perspective, we explore how mass timber fits in to a sustainable master plan for our planet, and investigate the potential of robotic manufacturing on mass timber construction.
