Explore the Agenda
9:00 am Registration & Networking
Workshop A
10:00 am Articulating the Strategic Value of Prefabrication to Build Trust & Accelerate Stakeholder Alignment
- Unpacking common barriers among designers, contractors, and clients – including perceived cost premiums and unfamiliarity with systems – to identify and address common misconceptions
- Educating design teams on identifying when prefabrication enhances value and when traditional methods may be more appropriate
- Identifying and discussing the holistic cost savings of prefabrication to ensure a compelling value proposition against traditional stick-built propositions
- Developing strategies for unified advocacy across stakeholders to ensure architects, contractors, and trades can confidently promote prefab to owners and decisionmakers
12:00 pm Networking Lunch
Workshop B
1:00 pm Establishing Transparent Cost-Benefit Models to Improve Decision-Making & Enhance Competitive Positioning
- Hearing design & construction team perspectives on cost evaluations for prefabrication, understanding how they gauge the value of speed, cost, and quality when considering propositions
- Introducing matrix-based models to compare upfront costs with lifecycle savings, facilitating a more effective evaluation of speed, quality, and cost trade-offs for prefabricated structures and façades
- Sharing cases of achieved cost neutrality utilizing prefabrication, using key takeaways to recognize advantages of prefabrication for scope, schedule, and cost considerations