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Europe's mass timber industry has a two-decade head start, but not everything it built translates across the Atlantic. This session tackles two questions you can act on right now: which systems, details, and typologies actually accelerate fabrication and on-site assembly under North American constraints, and how timber-based adaptive reuse and hybrid structural insertion unlock projects that ground-up new-build can't touch. Drawing on European precedents, Denver's RiNo industrial revitalization, and the parking-structure-to-housing conversions emerging across North America, Michael delivers comparative data, honest trade-offs, and a decision framework for your next project.
What You Will Learn:
- How to choose between flat-pack and volumetric prefabrication — and among element and connection typologies — based on your project's specific constraints, using a practical decision matrix you can apply immediately.
- How to identify and evaluate adaptive reuse opportunities in existing building stock across industrial, parking, and civic buildings without demolition.
- How to use the open-source Optoppen toolkit to get a rapid structural feasibility read on buildings already on your radar.
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