The MHBA's National Modular Housing Conference is the most comprehensive meeting anywhere for modular home builders, architects, engineers, developers, and suppliers. The Modular Home Builders Association provides professionals in residential modular construction a place to network, exchange ideas, learn from experts, discuss issues, and grow professionally.
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2024 Keynote Speaker
Jim House
Senior Consultant
FMI Consulting
FMI’s Economic Forecast and Single Family Construction Market Outlook
With Jim House
FMI will share insights on the past, current, and future state of the United States single-family construction market. This will include data analysis of spending trends and areas of expected future growth and decline. Our intent is to provide your audience with an improved understanding of trends and expectations for the single family market and where the opportunities for modular firms may lie.
Presenters Announced
Ken Semler
President/Founder
Impresa Modular
MHBA Board Chair
Tom Hardiman
Executive Director
Modular Home Builders Association
David Roover
Chief Growth Officer
Quartz Properties
Jon Hannah-Spacagna
Government Affairs Director
Modular Home Builders Association
Dean Dovolis, AIA
Founder & CEO
DJR Architecture
Amanda Pederson, AIA
Associate
DJR Architecture
Tom Coronato
Loan Officer
Federal Savings Bank
Dennis Steigerwalt
President
Housing Innovation Alliance
Jason McMillen
Sales Manager
Structural Modular Innovations LLC.
Nolan Browne
Founding Partner
ADL Ventures
Colby Swanson
Managing Partner
Momentum Innovation Group
Cooper Lane
Vice President of Sales
Reko Automation Group Inc.
Kristina Smallhorn
Licensed Realtor/Content Creator
Your Real Estate Whisperer
Fred Malik
Managing Director
Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS)
Presentation Details
Jon Hannah-Spacagna
Government Affairs Director
Modular Home Builders Association
Regulatory and Legislative Panel Discussion
Facilitated by Jon Hannah-Spacagna
Join MHBA Government Affairs Director Jon Hannah Spacagna as he leads a panel of regulatory and code experts to discuss barriers and opportunities facing the industry.
Cooper Lane
Vice President of Sales
Reko Automation Group Inc.
Utilizing Existing Production Technology to Bolster the Offsite Space
With Cooper Lane
Construction has shown a decrease in productivity since 1945 while every other industry has shown increases in productivity. The time for change is now. We must move construction in today's standards for manufacturing. The technology exists and we can start to close the ever-growing gap that exists in housing and other sectors of construction. Join Cooper Lane, VP of Reko Automation as he discusses tools currently being used by other industrialized sectors such as parametric programming, machine learning, digital twinning, vision and touch technology, and artificial intelligence.
Tom Hardiman
Executive Director
Modular Home Builders Association
Ken Semler
President/Founder
Impresa Modular
MHBA Board Chair
State of the Association & Business Meeting
With Tom Hardiman and Ken Semler
Join MHBA Executive Director Tom Hardiman and Board Chair Ken Semler as they discuss the current state of affairs and landscape for the association.
Fred Malik
Managing Director
Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS)
Adapting to Increasing Severe Weather Threats: Increasing Resiliency in the Built Environment
With Fred Malik
Severe weather is wreaking havoc on the built environment. In 2023, there were nineteen severe thunderstorm outbreaks each causing over a billion dollars in damage. Collectively, they impacted more than 20 states and caused over $50 billion in damage. It is crucial as modular builders and developers, we understand how a changing climate and the increasing severity of weather are contributing to the urgency for stronger, safer and more durable structures. Join Fred Malik, Managing Director of the FORTIFIED building programs at the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS), as he discusses the relationship between weather and climate, how the threats from tropical cyclones and severe thunderstorms are increasing, details that can make homes and multifamily buildings more durable, as well as how modular builders can embrace building more resilient properties to improve the affordability and availability of property insurance.
Nolan Browne
Founding Partner
ADL Ventures
Colby Swanson
Managing Partner
Momentum Innovation Group
From Factory Built to Industrialized Construction: How to Profit from the Transition
With Nolan Browne and Colby Swanson
In this session, Nolan Browne and Colby Swanson will delve into the strategies and steps companies can take to thrive during the industry's shift to industrialized construction (IOC). Evaluating your company's strengths in IC, leveraging assets, and identifying opportunities are key discussion points.
David Roover
Chief Growth Officer
Quartz Properties
Utilizing Offsite Construction At Scale for Production Builders
With David Roover Chief Growth Officer Quartz Properties
Builder/developers can utilize offsite construction at scale to become "production builders." To do this, a project must be "organically modular" from day 1. Site designs must anticipate modular logistics, floorplans must be value engineered to work efficiently at the factory and on site. GC and trades must be familiar with the specific scopes required to set and finish the homes. All of this upfront work results in high-quality homes delivered on a date-certain and quality-certain basis.
Dean Dovolis, AIA
Founder & CEO
DJR Architecture
Amanda Pederson, AIA
Associate
DJR Architecture
Missing Middle Innovation – Deeply Affordable Modular Public Housing
With Dean Dolovis and Amanda Pederson, DJR Architecture
Is it possible to provide deeply affordable missing middle housing using innovative building technologies? This was the question Minneapolis Public Housing Authority (MPHA) asked in their 2021 scattered sites RFP. The resulting project pioneered the intentions behind Minneapolis’s groundbreaking 2040 comprehensive plan, which allowed historic density in areas previously restricted to single family zoning and is considered to be one of the most innovative affordable housing projects in the country. This session presents the collaborative process that occurred with MPHA the selected team (DJR Architecture, Frerichs Construction, & Rise Modular). It will demonstrate how the blending of innovative zoning, design, building technology, and financing led to the creation of 84 affordable modular housing units on 16 sites spanning across Minneapolis. This single-phase project constructed 130,000 sf of housing in just 13 months, rapidly responding to the dramatic need for affordable housing. Attendees will learn about the unforeseen challenges in project delivery and how to leverage the benefits and challenges of modular construction. This scattered sites – modular - deeply affordable – missing middle project, is a first of its kind project that can serve as a model for providing transformative change in the form of modular, sustainable affordable housing in communities across the US
Dennis Steigerwalt
President
Housing Innovation Alliance
Jason McMillen
Sales Manager
Structural Modular Innovations LLC.
The Picket Fence Concept Home: From Consumer Insights to Design & Technology Innovation
What happens when 10,000 American consumers tell you what matters most to them in home and community design, you assemble a team of design thinkers committed to bringing those insights to life and add a set of guiding principles around livability, sustainability and constructability that incorporate new technologies, systems and modern methods of construction to help achieve them? The result: The Picket Fence concept home – a 2,007 sq. ft. townhome with 660 sq. ft. full studio ADU built in an off-site factory setting and assembled on an infill lot in Pittsburgh, PA. Get access to real-life lessons from the journey and decisions made from the team behind this smarter and more attainable home.
Tom Hardiman
Executive Director
Modular Home Builders Association
Ken Semler
President/Founder
Impresa Modular
MHBA Board Chair
Kristina Smallhorn
Licensed Realtor/Content Creator
Your Real Estate Whisperer
Tom Coronato
Loan Officer
Federal Savings Bank
Almost Modular: How the HUD Code Industry May Be Confusing the General Public
With the creation of a new hybrid product called the “Cross Mod” and recent efforts to change HUD regulations and standards, it seems as if the HUD Code manufactured housing industry is intentionally entering the modular home space. Will consumers be able to understand the differences? How will this impact appraisals, financing, warranties, and insurance? What about resell value? Join us as our panelist engage in an open and honest debate about these issues.