Jason Van Nest to Chair Track Seven – Business Strategy

The Center for Offsite Construction (CfOC) is pleased to announce that its Executive Director, Jason Van Nest, will serve as Track Chair for Track Seven: Business Strategy at Advancing Prefabrication 2026, taking place February 2–5 in Dallas, Texas. Jason will chair the Business Strategy track during the main conference days on Tuesday, February 3 and Wednesday, February 4.

Track Seven is positioned at a critical inflection point for the industry. As prefabrication, modularization, and manufacturing-informed delivery move from early adoption to broader market penetration, the central challenge is no longer whether offsite works—but how it is governed, scaled, financed, and sustained inside real organizations.

The Business Strategy track focuses on questions that sit upstream of tools and technologies:

• How do firms restructure themselves to support offsite as a core operating model?
• What financial, contractual, and organizational frameworks enable repeatability?
• How do leaders align culture, workforce development, and capital investment with industrialized delivery?
• These questions closely mirror CfOC’s own research and standards agenda.

CfOC’s work—including ANSI-accredited standards development, emerging offsite degree and program accreditation frameworks, and its ongoing research into modular interface standards and configure-to-order marketplaces—is grounded in the belief that offsite construction cannot scale without shared rules, recognized credentials, and interoperable systems. This is the foundation of what CfOC describes as The Future of Design & Delivery an industry state where prefabrication operates as a coordinated marketplace rather than a collection of bespoke solutions.

By chairing Track Seven, CfOC helps ensure that the conversation around business strategy remains tightly connected to:

• Standardization over customization
• Systems thinking over project heroics
• Accredited competencies over ad-hoc expertise
• Market alignment over isolated innovation

The full Track Seven agenda—covering executive decision-making, organizational design, and strategic growth models—is published in the official Advancing Prefabrication 2026 Event Guide (see pages 27 and 36).

CfOC looks forward to engaging with industry leaders, owners, and innovators during the conference and continuing the work of aligning policy, standards, education, and practice to accelerate the future of offsite construction.