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Jason Van Nest

Advancing the shift from representational design to configuration- and simulation-driven delivery. Founder of both Logic Building Systems and the Center for Offsite Construction... together addressing the technical, legal, and educational blockages preventing offsite construction from scaling to meet the housing crisis.


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2023 - present
Chartered, funded, and led the first U.S. academic research center dedicated to advancing industrialized construction. The Center for Offsite Construction (CfOC) serves as a hub for effective offsite construction practices in North America, encompassing research innovation, standards development, consensus building, and curriculum creation. Essays, whitepapers, and podcast on the CfOC platform: The Future of Design & Delivery.
2022 - present
Founder
Logic Building SystemsBrattleboro, VT
Leading the pod-manufacturing startup design to usher in an era of Configure-to-Order housing construction. Commercializing technologies developed at the CfOC (like the CfOC-ICC-1220 Modular Interface Standard). Storefront laboratory at 26 Harmony Place. (More details, below.)
2021 - 2025
President
Academic Senate
New York Tech
Manhattan, NY
Elected for the term-limit maximum of (2) dual-year administrations. Preside at Senate meetings, Chair Executive Committee, Chair the the Budget, Finances, and Resource Allocations Committee, serve as a faculty representative to the Institute Board of Trustees, etc.