What’s going on at the BSC Lounge and Elsewhere
If you’re headed to the 2024 International Builders’ Show, one of the best places for networking and education on all things offsite is the Building Systems Council Lounge, North Hall, Room 242.
What follows is the educational events and roundtable discussions that we know of as of the publication date. Please note that sessions and speakers are subject to change. For the most up-to-date list, including start times, check back here or go to buildersshow.com/nahb-building-systems-councils
Presentations at the Building Systems Councils
Lounge
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27
Trends in Offsite Solutions, From Capital to Components
Tuesday, February 27, 8:00 – 8:30 AM
BSC Lounge, North Hall, Room 242
Speaker: Margaret Whelan, Founder & CEO, Whelan Advisory
Offsite construction, building systems, prefabricated components, industrialized construction and manufactured housing are a few of the terms for residential construction that uses factory-manufactured structural materials. Despite worldwide adoption and a century-long history, what we commonly refer to today as offsite construction can be confusing for industry veterans and newcomers.
Join us for a strategic overview of the offsite construction industry and its current place in the residential building market. Review economic forces that have prevented prior adoption of systems-built construction, what the industry is doing now to reverse those forces and offsite’s impact on the future of home building.
The Future of Housing with Certainty: It Looks a Lot Like Systems Building
Tuesday, February 27, 9:30 – 10:00 AM
BSC Lounge, North Hall, Room 242
Speaker: Sam Rashkin, Retooling the U.S. Housing Industry
You know what they say about the future, “adapt or be left behind.” Not so much for housing in the U.S. Until now. There are huge forces converging on the industry imposing so much pain while critical market-ready innovations are sitting on the sidelines waiting to mitigate that pain. This includes systems building. This session will look at why systems building can no longer remain at 3% market penetration and dive into critical strategies for crossing over to mainstream builders. Strategies that have been ignored for too long.
Hybrid Homes – Add Timber Frame Elements to Your Next Custom Build
Tuesday, February 27, 11:15 – 11:45 AM
BSC Lounge, North Hall, Room 242
Speaker: Mike Pollari, WHS Homes
Discuss the benefits of integrating pre-cut timber frame construction within conventionally built homes. Pre-cut heavy timber structures and elements can be easily installed on-site, add eye-catching design to a home, and can be part of a high-performance energy envelope. With options ranging from select structural Douglas fir to white oak and reclaimed timbers, a pre-cut timber frame package is an offsite construction component that can add value to new and renovated homes. Additionally, by including structural and non-structural elements, hybrid timber frame structures can be utilized in many areas, tailored for each project to maximize architectural impact and value.
Panelized Construction: From Science-Backed Design to Real-World Performance
Tuesday, February 27, 1:15 – 1:45 PM
BSC Lounge, North Hall, Room 242
Speaker: Evan Molony, CertainTeed
CertainTeed launched One Precision Assemblies to help builders overcome the challenge of building more long-lasting, sustainable homes per year. In the session, you will see how the careful design of OPA’s airtight and weatherproofed shell solution yields incredible performance and longevity for residential single-family designs, and how this performance was validated with real world data.
Why Smart Builders Use SIPs: What You Need to Know
Tuesday, February 27, 3:45 – 4:15 PM
BSC Lounge, North Hall, Room 242
Speakers: Damian Pataluna, Structural Insulated Panel Association; Damian Pataluna, Fisher SIPs, LLC
Structural insulated panels (SIPs) are high-performance building systems for residential and light commercial construction. SIPs are manufactured under factory-controlled conditions and can be fabricated to fit nearly any building design. The result is a powerful, energy-efficient, and cost-effective building system.
Learn the ins and outs of SIPs construction and walk away with an easy-to-use checklist for your first SIPs project.
Peer-to-Peer Roundtable Discussions
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27
Use Modular Construction to 4x Your Custom Home Building Business
Tuesday, February 27, 2:00 – 2:30 PM
LVCC – Custom Building Central – West 209
Host: Ken Semler, (CAPS), President and CEO, Impresa Companies
Given current challenges posed by a fragmented supply chain and a limited labor pool, it’s imperative to evaluate your company’s need and readiness for a new approach to home building. Join us for a detailed comparison of traditional stick-built and modular construction methods and learn the steps necessary to transition your business effectively.
Gain insights into how the construction techniques and processes differ, including collaboration with manufacturers, site preparation and factory-built unit installation. Explore distinctions in finishing homes on-site versus using modular units. And understand the backend policies and administrative adjustments required for a seamless shift to offsite construction.
Peer-to-Peer Roundtable Discussions
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28
How Recent Investments Have Changed the Offsite Components Industry
Wednesday, February 28, 8:00 – 8:30 AM
BSC Lounge, North Hall, Room 242
Speaker: Sean Shields, Structural Building Components Association
Software, automation, and robotics companies have made significant investments in research and development to drastically improve the design and manufacturing capabilities of today’s offsite component manufacturer. Look at the impact of some of these investments and how large companies like Builders FirstSource, US LBM and 84 Lumber are leveraging these advancements to offer greater design flexibility, scheduling accuracy, and material efficiency and quality to home builders.
The Picket Fence Concept Home: From Consumer Insights to Design & Technology Innovation
Wednesday, February 28, 9:45 – 10:15 AM
BSC Lounge, North Hall, Room 242
Speakers: Dennis Steigerwalt, Housing Innovation Alliance; Ryan White, DAHLIN Architecture; Teri Slavik-Tsuyuki, tst ink; Ryan Bish, Structural Modulars Innovations
What happens when 10,000 American consumers tell you what matters most to them in home and community design, you assemble a team of design thinkers committed to bringing those insights to life and add a set of guiding principles around livability, sustainability, and constructability that incorporate new technologies, systems and modern methods of construction to help achieve them?
The result: The Picket Fence concept home – a 2,007 sq. ft. townhome with 660 sq. ft. full studio ADU built in an off-site factory setting and assembled on an infill lot in Pittsburgh, PA. Get access to real-life lessons from the journey and decisions made from the data source, architect, and developer of this smarter and more attainable home.
ICC Offsite Construction Standards and Your Business
Wednesday, February 28, 11:15 – 11:45 AM
BSC Lounge, North Hall, Room 242
Speaker: Ryan Colker, Vice President of Innovation, International Code Council
The International Code Council (ICC) has partnered with the Modular Building Institute (MBI) to develop standards addressing different aspects of the offsite construction process. The new standards cover prefabricated components, panelized walls and modular elements.
During this presentation, Ryan Colker, the ICC’s Vice President of Innovation, will detail how the standards impact designers, manufacturers, builders, product and service providers in the systems-built housing industry. Discover how ICC and MBI are working together to provide states and local municipalities with a universal standard for offsite construction projects in their jurisdictions.
Special Report – Offsite Construction Housing Forecast
Wednesday, February 28, 11:45 AM-12:15 PM
BSC Lounge, North Hall, Room 242
Speaker: Danushka Nanayakkara-Skillington, National Association of Home Builders
The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) economics team regularly produces in-depth analyses of the home building industry from private and government data. A leading authority in the financial affairs of home building, NAHB’s economics group surveys builders, home buyers, and renters to gain insight into the issues and trends driving the industry. During this presentation, hear from the NAHB housing forecast team about the general home building market and specific, targeted data regarding offsite residential construction.
How Modular Puts Money in the Bank
Wednesday, February 28, 1:15-1:45 PM
BSC Lounge, North Hall, Room 242
Speakers: Kenneth Semler, Impresa Companies
While saving time with modular construction is appealing, some builders and developers might be left wondering if time saved translates into money saved. The answer is yes. The hours, days and months that modular construction can knock off a project could generate significant cost savings. Discuss how the pace of modular construction can reduce time for costs to accrue and minimize interest-only construction loan expenses, while decreasing exposure to material price increases and other money saving benefits when combined with solid project management.
Industrialized Construction – Bringing Value to Multifamily Builders, Developers, and Resident
Wednesday, February 28, 3:00-3:30 PM
BSC Lounge, North Hall, Room 242
Speaker: Shanti Pless, Senior Commercial Building Energy Researcher, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Multifamily construction holds an essential position in achieving the goal of affordable carbon neutral homes. Industrialized construction is an evolving approach to provide more affordable housing that implements net zero energy (NZE) strategies – and it can do so in an efficient way that brings value to builders, developers, and residents. During this presentation, we’ll discuss specific design approaches, tools and strategies that yield the best results for factory integration of multifamily energy efficient structures.
Survey of Offsite Multifamily Construction Trends
Wednesday, February 28, 3:45 – 4:15 PM
BSC Lounge, North Hall, Room 242
Speaker: Kevin Grosskopf, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Professor – Durham School Architecture, Engineering & Construction
Join us for an insightful review and discussion focusing on the study of multifamily construction trends in the Pacific Northwest, highlighting energy performance and production efficiency. We’ll delve into nine multifamily structures constructed using diverse methods, including traditional stick-built, panelized and modular. Get a clear comparison of the construction methods, highlighting their impact on schedule, cost, transportation, site logistics, facility investments, financing and delivery for real-world multifamily builds.
Presentations at the Building Systems Councils
Lounge
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 29
Achieving Higher Performance on the Jobsite Through Offsite Components
Thursday, February 29, 9:30 – 10:00 AM
BSC Lounge, North Hall, Room 242
Speaker: Chris Tatge, Dynamic Construction
As a co-owner of one of the fastest growing private companies in the U.S., Chris has found great success as a turnkey framer in using offsite manufactured components. Chris shares the preconstruction planning required to use components and how factory-built precision help his crews achieve a higher performing product that is constructed in less time on the jobsite.
Coffee and Conversations: Offsite Construction for Remodelers
Thursday, February 29, 10:15 – 11:00 AM
LVCC – Building Systems Councils Lounge – North 242
Host: Kenneth Semler, Impresa Companies
Additions offer remodelers a significant revenue stream but can bog down the construction process because the existing home is exposed to the elements, delaying construction. Stretching the projects timeframe costs money and frustrates clients. Despite systems-built construction’s ability to mitigate both issues, most remodelers aren’t familiar with offsite building techniques. During this roundtable discussion, a veteran modular builder will answer questions about fabricating your next addition with systems-built construction.
Market Guidance and Innovative Approaches for Scalable Building Retrofits
Thursday, February 29, 11:45 AM – 12:15 PM
BSC Lounge, North Hall, Room 242
Speaker: Lucas Toffoli, RMI
Just-published research from RMI and its partners details the scope and range of potential retrofits required to align the US residential building stock with climate goals (while also providing other co-benefits to building occupants and owners).
This represents a massive need for innovation and industry capacity development—and an important opportunity for building systems approaches, including prefabricated panelized envelope retrofit solutions. This session will review key findings from our analysis and share updates from multiple RMI-supported retrofit projects using innovative prefabricated solutions.
Presentations Elsewhere at LVCC
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27
The Construction Side of Onsite vs. Offsite: How the Processes Differ
Tuesday, February 27, 8:30 – 9:30 AM
LVCC – West 207
Speaker: Ken Semler, Impresa Companies
Given current challenges posed by a fragmented supply chain and a limited labor pool, it’s imperative to evaluate your company’s need and readiness for a new approach to home building. Join us for a detailed comparison of traditional stick-built and modular construction methods and learn the steps necessary to transition your business effectively.
Gain insights into how the construction techniques and processes differ, including collaboration with manufacturers, site preparation and factory-built unit installation. Explore distinctions in finishing homes on-site versus using modular units. And understand the backend policies and administrative adjustments required for a seamless shift to offsite construction.
Build More Custom Homes Using Offsite Construction
Tuesday, February 27, 9:45-10:15 PM
LVCC – Custom Building Central – West 209
Speaker: Ken Semler, Impresa Companies
Material prices and labor shortages are two of the industry’s biggest concerns. Even though modular construction can mitigate both issues for custom builders, most aren’t familiar with the offsite building method. If they are, they hold significant misconceptions about what it is.
Uncover the design flexibility and efficiencies modular construction offers both builders and clients in this dynamic presentation. Topics include an overview of modular construction, adapting custom home plans, pre-construction processes, managing onsite delivery, and addressing unique finishing aspects like mate lines and utility hook-ups. See examples of homes from 600 to 10,000 sq. ft. and take advantage of a time for Q&A at the end of the program.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28
The True Cost of Onsite vs. Offsite: A Model for Making the Right Choice for Your Business
Wednesday, February 28, 4:00 – 5:00 PM
LVCC – West 207
Speaker: Scott Sedam, True North Development
The potential benefits of offsite building have intrigued the industry since the introduction of the Sears Modern Home kit, yet the onsite vs. offsite debate is seemingly unsettled more than a century later and widespread adoption remains elusive. Why? Builders have lacked a comprehensive evaluation tool that measures the true cost of both methods, instead relying on a bid-price only comparison which leaves critical questions unanswered.
This session offers a new model. Based on input from builders, suppliers, trades, architects and engineers, it examines more than 20 unique factors critical to onsite vs. offsite construction methods and will allow you to make the best, most cost-effective decision for your business once and for all.
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