7:30 am Chairs’ Opening Remarks
Moving the Needle With Mass Timber Projects
7:40 am Panel: Working With Building Authorities to Streamline the Permitting & Approval Process for Your Project
Synopsis
- Creating an open and honest dialogue with officials during schematic design to get their support early in the process
- Understanding the best ways to communicate details of your project effectively to improve the likelihood of permit approval
- Cooperating with research institutions to test new concepts and provide the data to jurisdictional authorities to secure approval of innovative design features
8:20 am Milwaukee’s 25-Story Ascent Tower: Pushing the Boundaries to Build Taller With Mass Timber
Synopsis
- Addressing concerns that arose as a barrier to pursuing a taller building to convince the client it was the right decision for the project
- Revealing the additional processes that were considered alongside traditional workflows to accommodate the complexity of high-rise building codes
- Harnessing lessons learned from building to higher limits to continue to evolve codes and build taller
9.30 am | Morning Refreshments
Optimizing Collaboration With All Project Stakeholders
10:10 am Master-Builder-Mindset: Leveraging the Design-Build Approach
Synopsis
- Discovering how earlier collaboration with engineer-builders can help improve structural efficiency and decrease schedule and cost
- Understanding how the engineer-builder can mitigate owner risk – locking in costs earlier than conventional design-bid-build approaches
- Establishing a culture of trust and transparency, so decisions are informed and made with confidence
10:50 am Case Study: Discovering How Our Team Collaborated in a Design-Assist Partnership to Improve Coordination & Decision-Making
Synopsis
- Highlighting how early involvement from trades and installers influenced constructability of critical design details
- Underlining the challenges associated with setting up a design-assist workflow and how we overcame them
- Addressing lessons learned with design-assist: What could we have done differently to further improve our approach?
Optimizing Transportation & Staging
10:10 am Uncovering Best Practices for Trucking & Staging Materials to Reduce Damage to Timber & Increase Installation Efficiency
Synopsis
- Discovering best practices to protect timber against damage during shipping and delivery
- Storing the materials effectively to manage the delivery of products onsite
- Evaluating how to strategically load materials onto the truck to ease the offloading process
- Training field workers on the specifics of erection and material handling so that they clearly follow the installer’s guidelines
10:50 am Implementing Robust Quality Controls to Ensure Envelope Tightness With a Timber Façade
Synopsis
- Detecting common quality issues that occur during installation and testing air and water tightness of the envelope
- Harnessing mock-ups to identify potential challenges and inform installation best practice
- Implementing a robust QA/QC plan to mitigate faults occurring in the envelope
- Discovering the research and development that created a façade product and revealing lessons learned from the cladding of a 35-story tower
12.00 pm | Lunch Break
Exploring the Future of Design
1:00 pm Discovering How More Sophisticated Fire Testing Is Opening Doors to Greater Exposure of Mass Timber Elements
Synopsis
- Dispelling the myths associated with wood and fire resistance to combat uncertainty over product safety
- Understanding the results of recent studies on fire resistance to help increase the percentage exposure of wood on projects
- Interpreting changing codes to think outside the box on alternative approaches for exposing timber
1:40 pm Audience Discussion: Exploring the Feasibility of Design for Manufacture & Assembly – Disassembly & Reuse (DfMA-DR) of Mass Timber Structures
Synopsis
- Uncovering why companies are looking at DfMA-DR as an option: What are the benefits of this new approach?
- Addressing the design and material limitations to discover whether it is possible to disassemble and reassemble the building in a different location
- Investigating how designers are approaching the construction of volumetric modules of timber to facilitate the disassembly, transportation and reassembly
Protecting Materials During Installation
1:00 pm Revealing Best Practices for Moisture Control & Mitigation During Installation to Protect Exposed Timber
Synopsis
- Understanding how timber can change form due to moisture and developing a contingency plan to cope with unexpected emergencies
- Coordinating with suppliers for advice on how best to protect their specific material
- Discovering the types of solutions for on site management and remediation
1:40 pm Case Study: Taking Lessons Learned From Moisture Control Failures
Synopsis
- Revealing our plans to protect wood at all stages of shipping, delivery and where this went wrong
- Coping with conflicting advice: How did we balance opinions when stakeholders offer contradictory advice
- Dealing with wood stains and discoloration after water damage occurs to alleviate aesthetic concerns
2.20 pm | Afternoon Refreshments
The Future of Mass Timber
3:00 pm Case Study: Innovating With Modular Design for Mass Timber
Synopsis
- Discovering the possible options, benefits and limitations of modular: Why we opted for modular for our mass timber project
- Understanding how the end-to-end modular workflow differs from a stick-and-build workflow to see how we optimized modular design and construction, improved efficiency and reduced costs
- Envisaging the future of modular mass timber buildings: What are the barriers of modular and how can it become mainstream?
3:40 pm Panel: Exploring the Future of Mass Timber: Trends, Supply Chains & Code Boundaries
Synopsis
- Discussing the current trajectory for the adoption of mass timber and assessing how to accelerate the timeline for it to become mainstream
- Investigating the current challenges associated with supply chain agility: How can we better cope
with lumber market volatility, disruption and non-standardized products to make mass timber a more appealing option? - Lifting the lid on current code considerations: How will codes continue to evolve to continue innovation?