The specialist fabricator is a new member of the construction team – and critical to the success of advanced timber projects. These companies bring a wealth of expertise and technological sophistication to projects of all sizes. With perspectives from prefabrication, to high-performance panelization and mass timber customization and assembly, this panel of expert fabricators will talk about their range of services, how they support timber projects, and how architects and engineers can best engage with them.
The specialist fabricator is a new member of the construction team – and critical to the success of advanced timber projects. These companies bring a wealth of expertise and technological sophistication to projects of all sizes. With perspectives from prefabrication, to high-performance panelization and mass timber customization and assembly, this panel of expert fabricators will talk about their range of services, how they support timber projects, and how architects and engineers can best engage with them.
Dr. Jelle Feringa is an architecture and robotics specialist. While developing his PhD thesis at TU Delft, Jelle established a full robotics lab in the docks of Rotterdam. Here he developed the technical underpinnings for Odico formwork robotics the first publicly traded architectural robotics company which he co-founded in 2012. As of 2017, was responsible for the development and production of tailor-made building products at a mass scale, as CTO of Aectual. In the summer of 2021 Jelle founded a new initiative, Terrestrial, focussed on printing large earthen structures. Technologies that Jelle developed, include diamond wire cutting, and large scale 3d printing and are applied in high-profile construction projects, including the Opus hotel in Dubai (Zaha Hadid Architects ) and the Fjordenhus in Velje, Denmark. Jelle teaches & lectures internationally at the Bartlett, Architectural Association, Paris-Malaquias, IAAC, ETH Zürich, TU Delft and Aarhus School of Architecture. Jelle is a founding partner of EZCT Architecture & Design Research. The work of the office is widely exhibited, exhibitions include the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Archilab, Orléans, Barbican Gallery Design Miami/Basel. Projects by the office are part of Pompidou Center permanent collection and the FRAC Centre Orléans.
