Explore the Agenda
9:00 am Check In & Light Breakfast
Beginner: Setting Up Your Prefab Shop
10:00 am Workshop A: Winning Buy-In & Effectively Managing Change to Accelerate Your Prefab Transition
- Clarifying first investments, ROI timeframes, and positive accounting feedback for a compelling business case to reduce risk perceptions and secure leadership alignment
- Exploring practical strategies for motivating project managers and foremen to overcome resistance and drive adoption in the field
- Identifying the most impactful cultural and operational shifts to prioritize under time and cost constraints for a smooth transition
Intermediate: Scaling Your Prefab Operations
10:00 am Workshop B: Strategically Increasing Your Shop Footprint to Support Higher Volumes Without Sacrificing Efficiency or Profitability
- Building a data-driven business case for shop expansion, including ROI modeling and cost-benefit analysis, to justify further investments
- Exploring optimal strategies for facility location and resource allocation to minimize diminishing returns and maximize efficiency across multiple regions
- Identifying when to scale internally versus outsource prefab production, and how to calculate the tipping point for hybrid models to maintain profitability and schedule certainty
12:00 pm Networking Lunch Break
1:00 pm Workshop C: Optimizing Layout & Tooling in Pre-Existing & New Facilities to Maximize Productivity & Meet Your Business Needs
- Exploring operational factors such as material flow, ergonomics, and truck access to inform layout decisions that minimize bottlenecks
- Distinguishing critical infrastructure elements – e.g. parking, bathrooms, loading zones – to create a checklist that prevents costly oversights during setup
- Understanding how to define your own catalogue of assemblies, relative to your shop and capacity
Beginner: Setting Up Your Prefab Shop
3:30 pm Workshop E: Evolving Your Template & Workflow to Enhance Prefabrication Success
- Exploring practical lessons learned from dismantling and rebuilding a high‑performing Revit template to better support prefab: what to keep, what to change, and how to align detailing with repeatability needs – we use eVolve Electrical, but the same rules apply to all electrical plugins
- Unpacking insights from retraining detailers, embracing new tools, and shifting mindsets to stop relying on “the way we’ve always done it”
- Sharing actionable guidance on structuring roles, spotting repetition, coordinating less and prefabbing more, and planning the next phase of growth – from early wins to considering centralized prefab
1:00 pm Workshop D: Building Robust Logistics Networks to Enable Seamless Scaling & Prevent Bottlenecks
- Exploring strategies for multi-shop coordination and data aggregation to optimize resource allocation and maintain efficiency at scale
- Identifying the most effective logistics models – whether partnering with third-party providers or building internal capabilities – to support complex prefab networks without sacrificing profitability
- Examining best practices for synchronizing production schedules with dynamic project timelines to enable just-in-time delivery and avoid costly delays
Intermediate: Scaling Your Prefab Operations
3:30 pm Workshop F: Developing Your Skilled Workforce to Drive Advanced Shop Operations
- Optimizing workforce composition, balancing journeymen, apprentices, and new hires, to assign tasks strategically and maintain quality as shop operations scale
- Exploring strategies for attracting and retaining top talent by leveraging prefab as a recruiting differentiator, engaging the next generation, and offering flexible work models to support scalability
- Identifying methods to accelerate skill development and leadership readiness through enhanced training programs and mentorship to support complex prefab operations