The conference will highlight community resilience and sustainability

The National Institute of Building Sciences has opened the call for speakers for Building Innovation 2025.

Building Innovation is a premier meeting for all who impact the built environment to find solutions. BI2025 will take place on May 19-21, 2025, at the Ritz-Carlton Tysons Corner in McLean, Virginia.

The conference theme is Thrive: Strategies for Resilient Communities. The conference will follow three tracks: leaders, practitioners and technologists.

NIBS seeks speaker abstracts for the following topics:

The three Building Innovation tracks aim to look beyond buildings to enable community-level resilience.

Leaders: Sessions will focus on developing policy frameworks, strengthening critical infrastructure, incentivizing the investment and empowering the workforce behind functional recovery.

Practitioners: Establishing processes for resilient building, sessions will focus on codes, standards, existing buildings, risk assessment and management, and sustainable design and construction practices.

Technologists: Sessions will highlight current and emerging technologies for resilient design, construction and planning, focusing on technology solutions, materials, use cases, implementation and adoption.