Hackathon Digital Prefabrication Challenge

digitize wood – the platform for knowledge transfer in timber construction – is organizing a hackathon in the field of digital prefabrication of timber construction as part of the knowledge transfer at the Cluster of Excellence IntCDC together with the University of British Columbia. Companies such as Blumer Lehmann, Intelligent City, Renggli, Strong by Form and Egoin will introduce themselves and provide insights “under the hood” of their processes, from which a problem will be formulated. The participants will then work in small groups with mentors from industry and research to develop solutions to the challenges in the digital design and prefabrication process and present them to a jury of industry partners and research staff.

The challenges will be announced soon. Blumer Lehmann is preparing a challenge for CLT curved – which you can watch in advance here. Be curious!

The teams with the best solutions can win prizes in various categories: The “Industry Award”, the “Research Award” and the “Innovation Award” are presented by digitize wood in the form of material prizes or non-cash prizes, which are subject to earmarked use. The prizes are endowed with €4,000 each.

Participation

• You are studying ITECH or civil engineering, are interested in the topic and have knowledge of coding? Please register at digitize-wood@intcdc.uni-stuttgart.de
• You are an architecture student at the University of Stuttgart and would like to receive points for participating in the hackathon? Please find more info here: https://www.icd.uni-stuttgart.de/teaching/seminars/hackathon-digital-prefabrication-challenge-2025/

You can find more information on digitize-wood.de or simply contact Moritz and Julia