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8:00 am Registration & Refreshments
8:30 am Chair’s Opening Remarks
Meeting Industry Sustainability Standards
8:35 am Adapting to LEED v5’s Carbon and Resiliency Requirements to Align Design, Documentation and Project Delivery
- Exploring the new LEED v5 reference guide
- Reviewing major updates to LEED framework for v5: how can contractors prepare for greater focus on embodied carbon and resiliency?
- Outlining methods and best practices for executing assessments on embodied carbon and resiliency
- Enabling contractors to price work and bid correctly by outlining the additional tracking and documentation LEED v5 now requires
9:05 am Strengthening Supply Chain Collaboration to Deliver on Rising Customer Sustainability Expectations
- Enhancing supplier capability to meet sustainability demands by addressing where the majority of project spend occurs
- Embedding sustainability into everyday decisions by engaging non-specialists across internal teams, projects, and design partners
- Leveraging procurement processes to drive measurable outcomes by aligning specifications, selection, and delivery with sustainability commitments
9:15 am Panel: Comparing Municipal Waste Diversion Approaches to Strengthen Circularity & Advance Deconstruction Pathways
- Clarifying how different cities structure diversion ordinances by examining material requirements, permit applicability and enforcement mechanisms
- Exploring deconstruction programs in Colorado and California and where opportunities exist to make deconstruction viable
- Preparing for future circularity and wildfire related diversion expectations
10:00 am Facilitated Audience Discussion: Uncovering the True Impacts of Data Centers & Building Solutions that Benefit Communities
- Recognising why conventional sustainability playbooks fall short in addressing their scale, speed, and resource intensity of data center projects
- Understanding the real carbon, energy, and water impacts of hyperscale timelines, temporary power, and infrastructure- and the knock-on-effect on communities
- Identifying practical, near-term levers across contractors, owners, and supply chains to meaningfully reduce harm today
- Shifting industry practices to deliver more equitable, community-aligned outcomes as AI-driven demand accelerates
10:30 am Morning Refreshments & Networking
Track 1
Corporate Operations & Reporting
Integrating Sustainability into Preconstruction
11:30 am Embedding Embodied Carbon & Circularity Priorities into Preconstruction & Estimating to Drive Early, High- Impact Reductions
- Collaborating with design teams to facilitate energy efficient building design and material circularity decision-making
- Balancing costly low-carbon options and project profitability when selecting trade contractors and suppliers
- Integrating procurement teams into circularity efforts
- Creating a roadmap for attaching carbon values to estimate line items to gain a complete picture of emissions
12:00 pm Panel: Integrating Contractors Into Early Design Conversations to Influence Material Choices and Carbon Outcomes
- Determining strategies contractors can use to gain a seat at the design table
- Defining the right questions to ask so construction managers can meaningfully shape material selections
- Strengthening procurement workflows by gathering accurate material data early
1:00 pm Lunch Break
Navigating Regional Regulations
2:00 pm Fireside Chat: Navigating State and Local Sustainability Requirements to Build Consistent Programs Across Regions
- Mapping regional mandates by comparing how states are shaping emissions tracking, energy codes and material requirements
- Determining how construction teams adjust processes, procedures and data collection to satisfy different city, county and state expectations
- Upskilling project and operating groups across geographies and verticals to act on requirements despite limited sustainability staffing
Track 2
Project Implementation & Jobsite Reporting
Adopting Low-Carbon Materials
11:30 am Reducing Risk Around Low-Carbon Concrete to Increase Contractor Willingness to Adopt
- Ensuring client requirements surrounding low-carbon concrete are widely understood
- Increasing trade awareness and confidence in low-carbon concrete mixes
- Clarifying cost and liability with new low-carbon mix designs upfront to improve adoption
- Mitigating risk with concrete commissioning agents
12:00 pm Case Study: Integrating Preventive Maintenance and Smart Building Systems to Reduce Operational Emissions
- Identifying how proactive inspection and maintenance prevent performance drift and reduce Scope 1 and 2 impacts
- Leveraging smart systems to detect inefficiencies early and guide corrective actions
- Reducing replacement‑driven emissions to avoid premature failure
- Cutting Scope 3 impacts linked to new equipment
1:00 pm Lunch Break
Optimizing Life Cycle Assessments
2:00 pm Case Study: Understanding Data & Assumptions in EPDs & Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) to Better Inform & Refine Future Projects
- Exploring an EPD deep-dive from a manufacturer’s perspective to better understand how A1-A3 data is collected and published
- Understanding how tracking realized A4 & A5 impacts can inform design and construction
- Using LCAs as a tool to better understand the gaps in our understanding of A1-A5 data
2:30 pm Comfort Break
2:40 pm Case Study: Aligning on Sustainable Delivery Strategies Across Mega-Projects in Different Markets to Strengthen Sustainable Delivery
- Understanding how scale and market type shape procurement challenges, risk profiles, and design levers available to contractors
- Integrating contractors in early design to give owners and designers actionable cost, schedule, and procurement data
- Coordinating stakeholders to share risk, choose lower‑impact materials and align expectations under schedule pressure
- Evaluating community and workforce impacts across diverse mega projects