Timberbot Ticket

Taking back the control from the robots – How we create a fully automated production line without telling the robots what we are doing. 

Jonas is currently leading the robotics team at GROPYUS. The objective is to transform the way the company uses and controls robots for the automated production lines. Before GROPYUS Jonas accumulated over a decade of experience in distributed software architecture at many different companies, most of them in the e-commerce sector. His big passion is to bring people from different backgrounds together to create new and efficient solutions for complex business cases.

At GROPYUS we have the vision to provide sustainable living for everyone. We see buildings not as projects but as ever-evolving products. We design our own modular building system, prefabricate key pieces in our own factory, develop our own building operating system and use strong end-to-end digitization to modernize all aspects of the real estate life cycle. We believe that this approach puts us into a prime position to bring change to a fragmented and inefficient industry. We currently employ more than 270 builders at six sites with Berlin and Vienna being our main locations.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gudrun-sack-58a515211/

Gudrun Sack is a managing director of Tegel Projekt in Berlin. She focuses on sustainable planning and building, combining quality with new standards in construction, and on the implementation of actionable future urban development solutions. She was a board member of the Berlin Chamber of Architects and of Netzwerk Berliner Baugruppen Architekten, and is currently a member of the working group on housing at the German Association of Architects, BDA. Having completed her studies in architecture at the Technical University of Berlin and the HfAK Vienna, Gudrun Sack began her career with Norman Foster in London. Prior to her academic studies, she had already completed an apprenticeship as a restorer. After a stint with Alsop Störmer Architekten in Hamburg, she worked as a research assistant in the Department of Architecture at the University of the Arts, Berlin. For more than 20 years, Gudrun Sack was a partner at NÄGELIARCHITEKTEN with offices in Berlin and Karlsruhe.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gudrun-sack-58a515211/

Designing Architecture for Automation

Mollie Claypool is CEO of Automated Architecture (AUAR) Ltd, a construction technology company revolutionising house building using automation. As a leading architectural thinker focused on issues of social justice highlighted by increasing automation in architecture and design production, Mollie believes in the potential of automation in architecture and the built environment to provide more socially engaged and environmentally sustainable ways of designing and building homes. She is co-author of Robotic Building: Architecture in the Age of Automation (Detail Edition 2019) and author of the SPACE10 report “The Digital in Architecture: Then, Now and in the Future” (2019). She is also Associate Professor in Architecture at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. At The Bartlett she is Co-Director of AUAR Labs and History & Theory Coordinator in MArch Architectural Design. She is the Managing Editor of Prospectives, an open access peer reviewed journal supported by The Bartlett. Mollie has studied at Pratt Institute, AA School of Architecture and The Bartlett.

Oliver Lang is the CEO and Co-Founder of Intelligent City, a Vancouver based housing technology company with the mission to build smarter, empower people to live better and deliver buildings that are life cycle carbon neutral, through the use of intelligent software and advanced robotics manufacturing applied to mass-timber construction, from their advanced manufacturing plant in Delta BC. He is a graduate of Columbia University, GSAPP, with an MSc in Advanced Architectural Design and holds a Dipl.Ing.Arch. from the Berlin University of Technology with studies at the ETSA Barcelona. He is a licensed architect in BC, Alberta, New York, and North Rhine-Westphalia Germany.

Oliver David Krieg is an expert in computational design and digital fabrication in architecture. As Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Intelligent City, he is leading the technology development for computational design and digital manufacturing processes for high-rise mass timber construction systems. This is part of the company‘s effort to provide transformative solutions for product-based, adaptable, and sustainable building platforms for urban housing and commercial buildings. His work is characterized by an integrative approach towards engineering, material science, design, sustainability, and manufacturing.

Andreas Lerge is the managing director and founder of Wood Real Estate GmbH and the HN Holzbau Netzwerk Deutschland. During his education as a carpenter he was able to study the art of timber construction in switzerland, germany and austria. He studied architecture and worked for BMW and TUM Munich. Since 2017 he has also been working as a real estate developer in social housing construction. Andreas is a consultant and advisor for investors, builders and finance institutions for timber construction and ESG-Strategies.

He is interested in the automation of the timber industry worldwide and promotes timber construction and high rise timber buildings.

www.wood-real-estate.de

www.holzbau-netzwerk.de

www.high-wood-sytsem.com

www.timberbot.de

Watch the full video tutorial of „Robotik im Holzbau“ on Youtube

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEtVzRj8pAPtUmL865ZDRyw

Link LinkedIN:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dipl-ing-andreas-lerge-6064879b/?originalSubdomain=de

Back in 2015, Alexander Leidorf broke completely new ground in timber construction. His startup – Leidorf GmbH (www.Leidorf.com) – uses a 40-meter-long robotic CNC system for the joinery of large-format wood materials such as CLT, LVL and BauBuche. After studying wood technology in Rosenheim, the trained master carpenter was able to gain more than 10 years of experience in the production management of a large timber construction company. He was able to combine this wood construction experience with robotics, which has been used in automotive construction for decades. Leidorf offers not only innovative technology but also an extremely high degree of flexibility. The robot does not care whether it processes round, triangular or polygonal components. In addition, Leidorf offers further prefabrication steps already at the factory, such as the installation of plasterboard cladding, windows and doors or facades. His company in the “wood valley Altheim” thus covers the entire value chain from raw material procurement to timber construction planning, joinery of the prefabricated parts, prefabrication in the factory and delivery to the construction site.

LinkedIN:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-leidorf-514402b8/

Dr. Vanessa Just is founder and CEO of juS.TECH AG in the area of sustainability & technology and also works at team neusta as AI strategist.  juS.TECH AG is a management consultancy and develops applications in the field of artificial intelligence with a strong focus on sustainable digitalization.

In addition, she is active as regional manager North as well as in the working group “Sustainability” in the KI Bundesverband and editor and author in Springer publishing house on topics of digitalization and its impact on changes in business processes and models.

Furthermore, she is a lecturer at the Duale Hochschule Stuttgart for the subject Corporate Management and at the ISM in the field of Data Analytics & AI.

Her academic background is in industrial engineering – mechanical engineering, and she has a PhD in automation and digitalization of business processes. Her personal research interests are sustainability and technological developments with a special focus on AI.

LinkedIN:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-vanessa-j/

As a digitization expert and robotics specialist with a strong wood construction background, Sascha Schade designs the processes and automation at ERNE AG Holzbau. With highly qualified specialists in the field of hardware, software and wood construction, individual solutions from 1 piece can be manufactured with guaranteed quality thanks to industrial production. The functioning interfaces mastered by ERNE AG and the high degree of prefabrication reduce the complexity on the construction site. Individual solutions have become possible through robotics and automation.

Link LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=sascha%20schade&origin=RICH_QUERY_SUGGESTION&position=0&searchId=ce7d7c4e-0398-4c2b-ba16-1991fc6dd594&sid=L.f

Philipp Eversmann is a registered architect in Munich and a professor at the University of Kassel, where he directs the Department of Digital and Experimental Design and Construction. He was Head of Education at the National Center of Competence in Research NCCR Digital Fabrication at ETH Zurich from 2014 to 2016, where he created a new master’s programme focused on robotic technologies in Architecture. As a visiting professor, he directed architectural research classes at the EPF Lausanne from 2011 to 2014, at the Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture in Paris from 2011 to 2014, and at the TU Munich from 2012 to 2014.

Link LinkedIN:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/philipp-alexander-eversmann-20381429/

Link: https://adr.tcaup.umich.edu/

Lecture Title: Robotic Timber Assembly

Bio: Dr. Arash Adel is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Michigan, where he directs the AdR Laboratory. Adel’s interdisciplinary research is at the intersection of design, computation, engineering, and robotic construction. He is particularly known for his work with novel integrative computational design methods coupled with robotic assembly techniques for manufacturing nonstandard multi-story timber buildings. He has extensively lectured, and his work has been on exhibit at various galleries, institutions, and events, including the ACADIA conference, the AIA National Design Week in Spokane, the Museum of Arts at WSU, the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and the Middle East Technical University in Ankara. Adel received his Master’s in Architecture from Harvard University and his Doctorate in Architecture from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH).

Link LinkedIN:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/arash-adel-42b915160/

Christina Reimann is head of technical consulting at the Association of the German Sawmilling and Timber Industry (Deutsche Säge- und Holzindustrie Bundesverband e. V.). She holds a degree in wood technology from the TH Rosenheim. After working as a technical employee at Holzforschung München, of the Technical University of Munich, she joined the association in 2016. As the person in charge of research and development, the continuous further development of products and processes in the sawmilling and timber industry is at the centre of her work. She is also active in a number of international standardisation committees in order to make the knowledge gained from research and development applicable in practice.

LinkedIN:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/christinareimann/