Lisa Podesto offers 15 years of market development and construction management experience focused on prefab and modular buildings. She spent the last 7 years with a publicly traded multinational real estate company serving as a nationwide resource for both development and construction operations supporting project scoping, design, and construction phases with the goal of streamlining large scale residential and commercial pipelines and developing a robust supply chain of off-site construction technologies. Prior to that, she spent over a decade supporting the wood industry with design and code expertise on fire/life safety, blast resistance, embodied carbon, life-cycle assessment, and other growing areas of wood innovation. As one of the leading experts in the US on Mass Timber and Industrialized Construction, she sits on several industry and professional advisory boards supporting research and organizations such as the Tallwood Design Institute (TDI), the Council of Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), the National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS) and the department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). As a co-author and peer reviewer for the 2012 United States Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) Handbook, Lisa began her contribution to the market development of mass timber well before the industry realized its potential. Eleven years later, she is still advancing the cause; speaking and authoring papers on how to design and construct cost efficient, high performing, low carbon buildings.