Panelist
Panelist
Ms. Cathy Pfeiffenberger
Managing Director, Head of Development & Construction Jamestown L.P.
Catherine Pfeiffenberger is a Managing Director, Head of Development and Construction at Jamestown. Ms. Pfeiffenberger joined Jamestown in 2019 to head up the development and construction unit. She works with the team to expand the brand by focusing on development opportunities, either adaptive re-use or ground up developing, where Jamestown can deliver its' unique approach to creating new, vibrant mixed used communities. She has greatly expanded Jamestown's ground-up development capabilities, delivering the firm's first mass timber office building, flex living concept, and unique multi-family rental building designed for sophisticated adults, while also leading the redevelopment of One Times Square—the home of the New Year's Eve Ball Drop Celebration. In her previous role at Skanska, Ms. Pfeiffenberger was a founding member of the development group where she helped to establish the brand and grow the platform throughout the United States. Prior to her time at Skanska she held a number of positions in finance, public-private partnerships and economic development, including Managing Director at Lehman Brothers. Ms. Pfeiffenberger is the past Chairman of the Board of the Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate, and has been involved with the Urban Land Institute Responsible Property Investing Council and the Green Building Advisory Committee for the New York Academy of Sciences. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the State University of New York at Albany and completed an executive leadership program at IMD in Switzerland.
Speaking at
Thu Apr 11
1:00 PM — 2:00 PM (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time
New York Hilton Midtown - Level 2, Gramercy Suite
The Tesla of Commercial Real Estate: How Mass Timber Is Changing the Way We Design and Build
Category
Sustainability
In recent decades, no building material has inspired awe, passion, and innovation like mass timber. Nature's building solution is transforming the construction industry because it sequesters carbon, greatly improves speed and precision, significantly reduces the size of the framing crew, and, most important, creates a superior product that occupants love.
The United States has been behind Europe and Canada in the production and use of mass timber and many municipal codes haven't even contemplated tall timber as a solution. But in recent years that has changed, as companies such as Google, Adidas, Atlassian, and Walmart have embraced mass timber and cities have updated codes to allow for taller mass timber structures to be built. This session serves as a "state of the union" for mass timber: how far it has come, its massive future potential, and the biggest challenges (and solutions) for its progress.