Curious about the impact of Advancing Prefabrication? Hear directly from our past attendees about their transformative experiences with real feedback from industry leaders, innovators and forward-thinkers who have attended our events. From game-changing connections to invaluable learning experiences, find out why our attendees rave about the unparalleled value and inspiration they receive at Advancing Prefabrication. Their stories highlight how our event has become a crucial catalyst for success in the world of prefab and modular construction.
“The most meaningful connection happened when a day or two before my presentation, I ran into a general contractor on the streets in Phoenix who introduced me to an owner customer. Six to eight months later, this owner toured one of our facilities. About a year after that visit, we won manufacturing work from them. The owner later told us that it was the tour of our facility that convinced them we were the right company to work with. We now have nearly a billion dollars’ worth of work with them. This connection, initiated at the conference, became our largest owner customer.” – Tim Moormeier, President, U.S. Engineering
“The reason for attending the conference was to start enlightening us on the whole notion of prefab and figure out how we can incorporate it into something that we traditionally have never done. 2024 was my first-time joining Advancing Prefabrication and we are actually engaging a prefab contractor that I met there for a project building pod units outside our hotel campus. So, it was obviously super productive, and time well spent.” – Fred Brandstrader, Vice President of Construction and Capital Expenditure, Hyatt Hotels
“This conference has always been a great opportunity for us at ColonialWebb to understand how other companies are processing, becoming industrialized and integrating that into their business, for us to take notes and come back to our own region and implement as much of that stuff as we can. There's so much to gain from attending the conference and really participating, the big takeaway for us is we try to go in there and ask questions and talk to people we've never met before. So, I always love hearing from the really advanced people who are the best in the industry. I always try to network with those guys as much as possible and just gain anything I can.” – Brad Mohler, Virtual Construction Manager, ColonialWebb Contractors
“We have a peer group of prefab people and we generally meet this group at this event because it is kind of the premier event. And we've also met some other potential project partners that have spent time vetting us out and us vetting them out. While we were at the conference, we’ve also met some interesting vendors, including AlliedBIM. So, we met them and built a business relationship with them. So, yeah, we have expanded our network and both business and just professional networking at the conference. It is kind of the who's who.” Dave Crumrine, President, Interstates
“I have a network of people. We went to Advancing Prefabrication. It was our first conference last year and even off that one conference, the network of people that I still communicate with is incredible because you meet people from across the country that have different thoughts and different methods to do the same things. It really challenges you to think outside of your box in your own four walls and kind of what you're used to. We text each other or e-mail each other all the time and bounce ideas off each other, or present an issue to ask, ‘how are you guys dealing with X’ and get feedback and apply it to how everything works. Being in Manhattan, is always a little bit more challenging than being somewhere else, but just to hear other thoughts and challenge myself with what other people are doing has been incredible.” James Inglima, Director of Prefabrication & Engineering, Unity Electric Company
"After attending the conference in 2024 we went back to the drawing board, we had to redo everything that we thought that we were doing about prefab and just implement a lot of good strategies that we learned.” – Louis Lemoine, Project Manager, Duncalf Mechanical
"I've been coming forever and I'm really excited about this mega trend and I think you guys have done an exemplary job." – Nick Masci, Principal, ICG
‘Nothing ever changes in the comfort zone.’ – Chris Fisher, Prefabrication Manager, Ready Electric