Verena Fink is founder and managing partner of the consultancy Woodpecker Finch. She stands for digital transformation in marketing, sales and distribution. Through numerous publications and lectures, she is one of the thought leaders in digital transformation, service economy and social commerce.
In addition to her consulting work, the expert for customer lifetime value in digital transformation acts as an entrepreneur in the field of future economics and neuroscience marketing with startup projects in San Francisco around artificial intelligence, sales optimization, as well as solutions for Industry 4.0. She is an Advisory Member at the Californian IT service provider DocuSign Inc, the global industry leader for process digitization.
Her latest book, “KI-Projekte – Einfach Machen” (AI Projects – Simply Doing It), whets people’s appetites for their own AI experiences, even if they have no prior IT knowledge.
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/verena-fink-7b420570/?originalSubdomain=de
Edyta Augustynowicz is a professor at the Bern University of Applied Sciences with a focus on digital design and manufacturing in wood. Her research project on data-driven design and manufacturing strategies for structures made from production waste won the 2022 BIO TOP Wood Innovation Award. She holds an MA degree in Architecture and Urban Design (2008) and a MAS degree in CAAD from ETH Zurich (2010). In 2011, she joined Herzog & de Meuron as an architect in Digital Technology Group, where for several years she was responsible for writing customized parametric tools and developing complex geometries in different scales. At Block Research Group at the ETH Zurich, she was project leader of the ‘Beyond Bending’ exhibition at Venice Architecture Biennale in 2016. Since 2018, she worked at FHNW, where she led an applied research project, CoDeFa, nominated to Design Preis Schweiz 2021. In parallel, she was employed at ERNE AG Holzbau, one of the most innovative Swiss wood construction companies, as an architect and software developer responsible for the robot-assisted production of timber structures.
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/edyta-augustynowicz-bfh/
Disrupting the housing industry.
Wolfgang Horn is founder and CEO of HORN Hausbau Technologie, the German partner of the Swedish automation pioneer Randek. Starting 7 years ago with the first robotic line for timberframe construction (ZeroLabor), Randek is technology leader in this field and supplying some of the biggest prefab-companies in the world with its unrivalled systems. The latest generation – ZeroLabor 3.0 is extremely versatile, process-reliable and well scalable, making it a superb solution for the German market.
Wolfgang has more than 20 years experience with automation for the furniture and housing industry and got a deep insight in the industry as Head of the sales and marketing department at Weinmann Holzbausystemtechnik GmbH. Growing up in the countryside and as a father of four, Wolfgang believes that buildings should be produced more sustainably and should be more affordable. Automation should drive these goals forward. Wolfgang prefers solutions which can be adopted to different wall-designs, are simple to operate and can be tailored to the needs and the size of a specific company.
Wolfgang knows robotics for timber construction not from theory, but from practice. That is, from plants that run day in, day out in 3-shift operation. He was one of the speakers at the FORUM HOLZBAU / HTW 2022 ( Lecture: “Robotics for timber frame construction: state of the art” ).
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/wolfgang-horn-919077130/
Prof. Kromoser was research assistant at TU Wien at the Institute for Structural Engineering finishing his PhD in 2015 after he visited a school for higher education in the field of wood technology and interior design and his studies in civil engineering. Again at the Institute of Structural Engineering he worked as Post-Doc until 2018 and was also visiting researcher at the Institute of Conceptual Design and Lightweight Structures at the University of Stuttgart. Since 2018 he is full Professor at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU) and since 2022 he is the head of the newly founded Institute of Green Civil Engineering. Apart from that Mr. Kromoser is the speaker of the Doctoral School BUILD.NATURE which started at BOKU in 2021.
Within the presentation he will speak about the design and erection of the housing of the newly established BOKU robot laboratory. The structure represents a structurally optimized all wood truss which was processed with the ABB IRB 7600 robot. Furthermore he will focus on currently running research projects dealing for example with robot assisted 3D printing of fully recyclable wall elements made solely renewables and robot milling and cutting of wood.
Contact:
https://www.betonbau.tuwien.ac.at/team/uebersicht/profil/staffmembers/staff/detail/kromoser/
Christopher Robeller is Professor of Digital Design and Production at University of Applied Sciences Augsburg. Before he leads the Digital Timber Construction group DTC at TU Kaiserslautern. He has previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research Digital Fabrication NCCR dfab at ETH Zurich, as a doctoral assistant at the Timber Construction Laboratory IBOIS at EPFL Lausanne, and as a research associate at the Institute of Computational Design ICD, at the University of Stuttgart. Christopher holds a Doctor of Sciences from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology EPFL, and a Professional Diploma in Architecture with Distinction from London Metropolitan University. His research of innovative timber structures, design for assembly and digital fabrication is widely published in scientific journals, books, conferences and exhibitions, and received the best paper award at the Advances in Architectural Geometry conference in 2014. The research has been implemented in prototype structures such as the ICD/itke pavilion (2010), the IBOIS curved folded wood pavilion (2013), the Vidy Theater Lausanne (2017), Annen Multihalle Manternach (2019), HexBox Canopy in Sydney (2019) and the DTC Recycleshell (2019).
Professor at TH Rosenheim and Co-Founder bei holzbau.tech GmbH.
Kassem Taher Saleh has been a member of the Bundestag since September 2021. For the Bündnis 90/Die Grünen parliamentary group, he is the chairman of the committee for housing, urban development, construction and local authorities, and a deputy member of the committee for climate protection and energy and the committee for human rights and humanitarian aid. He was born in Zakho/Iraq and grew up in Plauen in Vogtland. After completing his civil engineering studies at the TU Dresden, he worked as a site manager. In parliament he is committed to a climate-friendly and socially just turnaround in construction and brings a breath of fresh air from Sachsen to the 20th German Bundestag
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Jamie Smily is the director of XLAM South Africa, the first manufacturer of Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) in Africa. He studied architecture at Bezalel University in Jerusalem and ran an architectural practice in South Africa for a number of years before finding his way to timber manufacturing. Jamie and his team have developed their own in-house machinery and manufacturing processes for the production of CLT. The production incorporates the use of an ABB 6640 industrial robot for cutting and milling the timber panels. The company XLAM South Africa manufactures the CLT blanks which are then cut according to CAD/CAM data which has been translated from BIM software.
In his presentation he will speak about the practical applications of the robot in their factory environment.
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Andreas Lerge (Moderator)
Andreas Lerge is managing director and founder of Wood Real Estate GmbH and the HN Holzbau Netzwerk Germany GmbH. He is a consultant for investors, builders, banks, construction companies, and real estate developer. He is a trained carpenter, architect, and project developer. He is interested in the automation of the wood industry worldwide and promotes wood construction in the DACH region.
After completing his training and working as a project developer, he is only involved in the development of timber construction Networks in Germany and lectures throughout Germany about timber construction and real estate development. With his Webinars “Robotics in timber construction” and the Timber Network, he would like to motivate more companies to have fully automatic production for timber fabrications.
Wood Real Estate GmbH has office locations in Munich and Berlin
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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