Lisa Podesto Timber & Innovations Specialist , Lendlease San Francisco, CA
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Industry
Contractor
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Services offered
Design Support, Cost Planning, Design Management, Design-Build Timber, Procurement, Engineering Support, Building Code Support
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Has Experience with these building types:
Assembly (Worship, Restaurant, Theater), Business (Office), Civic (Recreational), Educational, Factory/Industrial, Government, Hotel/Motel, Institutional, Mercantile (Retail), Mixed-Use, Multi-Family (Apartments, Condos), Storage (Warehouse, Parking), Student Housing, Transportation (Airports, Train or Subway Stations)
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Has Experience with these material types:
Mass Timber, Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT), Nail-Laminated Timber (NLT), Dowel-Laminated Timber (DLT), Glue-Laminated Timber (GLT or glulam), Timber-Frame / Post and Beam, Heavy Timber Decking, Hybrid (wood with steel or concrete), Structural Composite Lumber (e.g. LVL and LSL), Wood-Concrete Composite Systems, Light-Frame
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Has experience with these construction types:
III-A, III-B, IV-A, IV-B, IV-C, IV-HT, V-A, V-B
Lisa serves as Lendlease’s Timber and Innovation Specialist, responsible for developing the nationwide business strategy for the use of mass timber and componentized solutions in a range of projects and pursuits across Lendlease business units (development, design-build and construction management). In this role, she supports activities at Lendlease including master planning, design management, cost planning, and pre-construction, guiding early decisions to achieve innovative, sustainable project delivery.
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 before many had even heard about it. She was also a contributor to the Nail-Laminated Timber Design and Construction Guide and managed two grants culminating in the development of a CLT blast design methodology opening new markets for wood in military and government markets. Her professional engineering license, years of design practice and a decade of experience in market development for wood structures, gives her a unique advantage in leading mass timber project teams to economic and thoughtful outcomes.
