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Most firms design, engineer, or build with the products already on the market. WZMH Architects invents new ones. Zenon Radewych, principal at WZMH and the person behind Sparkbird — the R&D lab inside the firm — shares what's coming out of the lab right now: a mass timber cladding system aimed at data centers, a hybrid CLT/NLT panel built to make mass timber housing cost competitive, and a housing model that puts rental apartments over underused community sites.
Learning Objectives:
- How WZMH is applying mass timber to new markets, including a lighter, lower-carbon timber cladding system for data centers and hybrid panel systems that pair CLT, NLT, and precast concrete to hit residential cost targets.
- How to move inventions from prototype to market and how to bring in industry partners,
- How to start inventing without a formal lab, using AI tools and rapid prototyping to test ideas quickly at any firm size.
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