Pre-Conference Workshop Day

• Evaluating how real-time progress tracking can boost accountability, spotlight top performers and eliminate low- ROI tools and processes
• Optimizing shop performance tracking systems to avoid exceeding shop capacity or underutilization of labor
• Transforming tracked cost data into historical benchmarks to continuously measure productivity, while sharpening estimates

• Creating baseline standards from which to scale core products and processes despite project variability
• Applying and implementing standard products and processes across your shops to gain a one team approach
• Analyzing data across multiple jobs, shops and teams to establish benchmarks for consistency and improve your prefab operation as a collective

• Identifying standardization opportunities for widely adopted prefab assemblies to expand adoption from reactionary to ‘on order’
• Creating standard product directories and field ordering systems from which project teams can expedite orders and fill last minute project need
• Balancing custom work with backstopping standard builds to accelerate throughput and maximize shop floor capacity

• Assessing if you have the skills, capacity and infrastructure to transition to manufacturing
• Evaluating labor, material and facility costs associated with manufacturing: Strategizing the make-vs-buy decision
• Exploring financial models for manufacturing: Navigating the shift from unit cost to total cost of ownership

• Assessing your market’s manufacturing opportunity to identify high-potential opportunities for repeatable products
• Understanding how to design flexibility into product solutions to enable customization in the field when applicable
• Anticipating product modifications and ease of repair to ensure real-world flexibility

• Using SIPOC, skills matrices and org design tools to define and optimize manufacturing roles, workflows and workforce structure
• Acknowledging and addressing cultural divides between legacy construction mindsets and innovative manufacturing mindsets
• Merging field wisdom with lean discipline to improve shop productivity without sacrificing field practicality

• Assessing your trade competency in a multi-trade setting, overcoming regional silos and uneven prefab maturity levels
• Aligning trades from day one on prefab goals, milestones and collaborative processes to prevent clashes and subsequent redesigns
• Exploring different options for clash detection to ensure jobs are executed accurately
• Discovering how AI-powered coordination tools can analyze models and resolve clashes automatically, reducing MEP coordination time

• Exploring lean principles such as Last Planner® and Takt planning to define how you can break your project into zones and sync your teams towards a seamless flow
• Defining specific project metrics and KPIs that align with your chosen approach to work towards collective goals
• Training teams on lean to gain buy-in and prevent complacency

• Exploring how to frame the business case for prefab investments through buy-in across leadership, and convincing owners and partners to support capex spend
• Determining the right scale of investment to expedite your prefab growth strategy
• Assessing real-world ROI through diving into metrics, timelines, and financial outcomes from prefab leaders

• Understanding shared challenges and differences to drive unity and collaboration
• Exploring how leaders can foster innovation within their role and across the wider organization to ensure long-term relevance
• Building strategies that balance growth with sustainability to strengthen the future of the industry

• Exploring how to position your company and yourself as a market-maker, through unconventional channel to win business
• Crafting a compelling value proposition that resonates across all project partners to stay ahead of your competition
• Developing your personal skills behind strategic selling, trust building and cross-functional influence

This is speed networking reimagined for senior executives ready to connect with peers who will shape the future of our industry. You’ll forge meaningful relationships, exchange real strategies and tap into the collective expertise of top-tier leaders. If you’re looking to build your inner circle of decision-makers and industry trailblazers, this is the room to be in.