Who's Presenting
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Stacy Scopano
(Moderator)
VP - National Director of Prefabrication and Manufacturing - JE Dunn Construction
VP - National Director of Prefabrication and Manufacturing - JE Dunn Construction
Biographie
Stacy Scopano is the National Director of Prefabrication & Manufacturing and a corporate officer for JE Dunn, a nationwide builder with 24 offices and project locations across the country. JE Dunn’s portfolio of projects spans dozens of industries, including healthcare, aviation, corporate environments, federal and military, industrial, education, mission critical, science and technology. Stacy has a focus of providing overall direction, development, and leadership for JE Dunn's integration of prefabrication and manufacturing processes into commercial construction, including identifying and developing strategic partnerships with designers, trade partners, and manufacturers.
Stacy has significant experience in a variety of built environment innovations, from offsite construction to leadership in industry-wide adoption of transformational technologies. Previously, Stacy was on the executive leadership team at Skender, which produced modular and prefabricated components for commercial projects and served as a Board Director for the National Institute of Sciences Offsite Construction Council. Prior to Skender, Stacy was an Innovation and Strategy executive at Skanksa USA, Autodesk and Trimble.
Prefabrication or modular solutions offer tremendous opportunity to improve productivity and process efficiency while also improving the consistency of quality in the final product. How are prefab and modular solutions impacting project schedules? how are operations on the job site impacted? and what economies are we gaing by deploying this technology on our projects? What are the challenges or barriers to using prefab or modular solutions and what does the future hold for this innovative solution? Join us to hear directly from industry innovators who are delivering prefabrication or modular based technology solutions.
Platt Boyd
Founder - CEO - Branch Technology
Platt is the Founder and CEO of Branch Technology who practiced as an award winning architect for 15 years prior to leaving a partnership seven years ago to found Branch. His fascination with natural beauty and amazing structures led to the initiation of a new technology using freeform 3D printing combined with conventional materials to robotically prefabricate architectural assemblies with resource stewardship and unprecedented design freedom. The Cellular Fabrication (C-FAB™) method takes its cues from proven methods observed in nature, where material use is minimized, but form is free to become almost anything.
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Branch has evolved from an idea to a global leader in construction scale 3D printing, having produced the largest 3D printed pavilions in the world in 2016, the largest 3D printed spans in 2018, and the first 3D printed GFRC facade in 2021. They have received awards ranging from NASA, Inc, Dezeen, and the publishers of Architect Magazine to the State of Tennessee where they are located. They are working with the National Science Foundation, Air Force, Department of Energy, NY State Energy R & D Authority, NASA and corporate partners to further develop the technology producing composite walls for commercial facades.
Dan Blank
CEO - Toggle
Daniel Blank is the CEO and co-founder of Toggle, a construction robotics company focused on the implementation of manufacturing technology and practices in the built environment. Dan has spent the last seventeen years as the founder of two successive companies: a design services agency and now Toggle, which have brought together his interests in the disciplines of design, technology, cities, and infrastructure. Dan is particularly interested in the intersection of developing markets, technology and renewable energy – and with Toggle, is helping to accelerate large scale urban and infrastructure construction. Dan is originally from Massachusetts and now lives with his family in New York City.
Janet Stephenson
Managing Director, USA - Modulous
Janet is an industry leader in the productization of construction and focused on improved design and delivery through collaboration, off-site manufacturing, sustainability, human health and well-being, and green building technologies.
She’s the Managing Director of Modulous and was the former Head of Building Platform Sales at Katerra.
