Description
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The AEC industry is undergoing a fundamental transformation. Industrialized construction is creating a pathway to greater innovation, Sustainable Design, and scalability across architecture, engineering, and construction. But unlocking its full potential requires more than technical solutions to design and make—it demands collaboration across industry, academia, and public policy.
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This session brings together leaders from industry and academia to explore how these sectors can work together to drive meaningful change. Panelists will share their perspectives on the roles each sector should play, the expectations they hold for one another, and the challenges that must be addressed to foster alignment.
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Attendees will leave with a deeper understanding of the interdependencies between these sectors and actionable insights for initiating or strengthening cross-sector engagement through their own work.
Key Learnings
- Identify the unique contributions that industry, academia, and public policy should make to accelerate transformation across the AEC sector through industrialization.
- Understand the current expectations and interdependencies between these sectors, how misalignment can, and has, hindered innovation and progress, and opportunities for change.
- Explore strategies for incentivizing collaboration and alignent across sectors, even in the absence of formal partnerships or policy support.
- Apply insights from panelists’ experiences to initiate or strengthen cross-sector engagement within attendees own organizations or communities.