Lean: A Mass Timber Solution
Come join us for a panel discussion with industry experts who are designing, fabricating, and constructing mass timber buildings. See how their lessons are carrying forward into tomorrow’s solutions and expanding the market. Learn how teams are enhancing their collaboration, maximizing prefabrication opportunities, and reducing factory and onsite waste.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn how early design decisions are maximizing pre-fabrication opportunities
- Explore how preplanning logistics reduces down time on the jobsite
- Learn how design professionals are eliminating design and construction waste on future projects
Moderator:
Chad Hamilton, XL Construction
Speakers:
Dave Beck, XL Construction
Dave Beck, co-founder and executive vice-president of XL Construction, is a construction industry visionary with a passion for sustainable and innovative building design. His desire for excellence drives the company’s focus on achieving the highest levels of project execution, client satisfaction and continuous improvement. Beck enthusiastically thinks about how to maximize prefabrication, work with a kit of parts ideology, and reduce waste.
John Leuenberger, McCarthy
John is a Preconstruction Manager for McCarthy’s Northern Pacific Region with 23 years of experience guiding the design and construction phase for healthcare, commercial and science & technology projects. With a background in structural engineering, he brings deep expertise in managing complex building systems, including mass timber. John excels at fostering cohesive teams and leverages his engineering and operations expertise to drive project success.
Erik Kneer, GLPA, Inc.
Erik Kneer, SE, LEED AP is GPLA’s Strategic Initiatives Leader based out of San Francisco, CA. He is passionate about solving unconventional problems for clients in creative ways. He has a broad level of expertise spanning multiple market sectors and building types with emphases on integrated practice, sustainable design, and off-site construction techniques. His focus on the latter two topics has led him to be an early-adopter and advocate for mass timber construction.
Parisa Nassiri, Holmes Fire
Parisa Nassiri is a fire and life safety code consultant specializing in performance-based structural fire engineering. With expertise in mass timber construction, she collaborates with design teams to develop fire-safe, code-compliant solutions that optimize architectural intent. Parisa brings a deep understanding of fire dynamics, material behavior, and innovative engineering approaches to support the safe adoption of mass timber in modern construction.
Scott Brown, DPR Construction
With over 24 years of construction and manufacturing leadership experience, Scott Brown is the National Mass Timber Specialist at DPR Construction. Scott has developed deep expertise in vertically integrated volumetric modular technology, the integration and utilization of prefab components, and profound knowledge of design for manufacturing and assembly processes in both prefabrication and mass timber.
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Hors d'oeuvres and refreshments will be provided.
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