Wood Industrialized Construction
Overview
Industrialized Wood Construction through well managed forest resources can reduce wildfire risk, while delivering decarbonized buildings that are healthier for occupants, assembled rapidly, and adaptable. Passive House is a global ultra low-energy building standard that offers resilience in the face of wildfires, energy insecurity, and a warming world.
This series of recordings are from the Regenerative Construction Ecosystems symposium which focused on how wood industrialized construction deployed to meet the Passive House standard, can lead to decarbonized environments that are resilient and adaptable to our changing environments.
The Industrialized Wood Construction presentations and moderated discussion will focus on design, planning and erection of mass timber buildings, and how universities are educating future workers and leaders for this field.
The symposium is intended to provide a framework for practitioners, academics, developers, builders; really to address climate adaptation, better buildings, better environments..."
About the Speakers
Michael Eliason | Founder | Larch Lab
Michael Eliason is the founder of Larch Lab, an architecture and urbanism ‘think and do’ tank focusing on research and policy; decarbonized, climate-adaptive, low-energy urban buildings; and sustainable urbanism. Michael is also a writer, and an award-winning architect specializing in mass timber, social housing, baugruppen (urban cohousing), and ecodistricts. His career has been dedicated to advancing innovation and broadening the discourse on sustainable development, passivhaus, non-market housing, and decarbonized construction. His professional experience includes extensive public work in both the Pacific Northwest, and Germany.
Dr. Guido Wimmers | Associate Professor | University of Northern British Columbia
Guido Wimmers is Chair for the Integrated Wood Design Program and has implemented an interdisciplinary approach for engineering and design of modern wood structures, combining structural engineering with building physics and modern fabrication. Guido received his Doctoral degree in Engineering Sciences and a Master degree in Architectural Engineering from the Leopold Franzens University, Innsbruck, Austria. Before coming to UNBC, he worked in multi-disciplinary teams in Austria, Germany and Italy in research and engineering as well as architectural offices. He played a key role in the implementation of the International Passive House Standard in BC and across Canada.
Corey Martin | Principal | Hacker
Since joining Hacker in 2011, Corey’s design leadership has guided some the firm’s most innovative and sustainable projects. As an Oregon native with 29 years of experience, Corey is strongly influenced by the unique relationship between the natural and built environment of the Pacific Northwest. He and Hacker have received wide acclaim for creating modern buildings which encompass a wide variety of project types that promote the use of mass timber and sustainable systems while displaying a particular sensitivity to the natural environment, daylight, and the people they serve.
Erica Spiritos | Vice President & Preconstruction Manager | Timberlab
Erica has dedicated her professional career to the mass timber movement in the Pacific Northwest. She has had the privilege of working on leading-edge projects, including some of the largest and tallest mass timber projects in the country. Her passion for social justice and inclusion shines through in projects like Heartwood, a workforce housing project in Seattle. Erica provides project-specific expertise to support appropriate and optimal mass timber design, estimating, and procurement strategy. She has helped grow the group from four people to 40 full-time staff dedicated to accelerating the mainstream adoption of mass timber across the US commercial construction market.
Dr. Daniel Hall | Assistant Professor | ETH Zurich
Daniel Hall is Assistant Professor of Innovative and Industrial Construction at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering of ETH Zürich. The overarching theme of his research is to enhance governance, productivity, and innovation in construction projects through a transformation from fragmented project delivery methods to new organizational models that integrate the supply chain of the vertically and horizontally fragmented construction industry. He is founder and organizer of the Stanford Industrialized Construction Forum since 2014.
