Innovators, collaborators and sustainability leaders ready to convene at Futurebuild 2024

The countdown is on for the built environment’s most influential event for innovation and collaboration. This week, the built environment’s greatest minds and change makers will convene for the industry’s most influential event - Futurebuild 2024 - taking place at London’s ExCeL, March 5-7th. With ‘take a stand for change’ as this year's key theme, Futurebuild 2024 promises to be the most transformative yet, furthering its mission of driving real, lasting and tangible change.

The time is now

While the ‘Take a stand for change’ campaign is central to Futurebuild 2024, running through everything is the drive for innovation, sharing knowledge and shaping the future. At the heart of this is the Futurebuild conference, curated by The Edge and sponsored by Soprema and One Click LCA. This is a highly respected gathering of influential innovators and collaborators tackling the industry’s problems head on. The three daily themes are: Pathways to change, Levers for change and Sharing visons for change. Featuring a line-up of the who’s who of the built and natural environment; guests for 2024 include: Smith Mordak, Chief Executive, UKGBC; Muyiwa Oki, President, RIBA and Sara Edmonds, Co-Director, National Retrofit Hub to name just a few.

The conference will dive deep into a multitude of topics, reaching every corner of the industry. Key seminars include: How to design built assets that are future-fit: healthy, regenerative and socially equitable, chaired by Chaline Church, 540 WORLD; Delivering net zero buildings in reality, chaired by Jamie Quinn, Sustainability Director, Argent Related, and The role of education in climate awareness, chaired by Django Perks, Teach the Future.

The full programme can be found here with speaker details and biographies.

Beyond just a conference

As well as the two conferences, Futurebuild the industry’s largest exhibition, featuring over 400 innovative brands and six stages that will host 500+ industry-leading speakers across sections FutureX Innovation, Buildings, Energy, Materials, Sustainable Infrastructure and Digital.

Each section contains its own seminar stage, addressing the biggest challenges facing the built environment and spotlighting the latest trends. The Materials section, sponsored by Aggregate Industries, contains the latest solutions in material efficiency, whilst the Buildings seminar programme, sponsored by Steico, covers all aspects of building including new build, refurb and retrofit.

The FutureX stage, sponsored by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Innovate UK and Carbon Trust, allows visitors to discover the newest developments and innovations in the built environment. The Digital stage, sponsored by Cemex, will examine the process, outcomes and benefits that digital construction provides the industry, and visitors will have the chance to meet those behind the cutting-edge technologies. The Sustainable Infrastructure stage, sponsored by ACO, has been created in response to our visitor needs, and will include all aspects of infrastructure including green, blue, grey and social infrastructure solutions. Lastly, the Energy section, sponsored by Kensa Group, will provide the latest technologies and solutions for decarbonisation of heat and the delivery of a smart and flexible energy system.

The knowledge programme has been made possible with the help and support of our event sponsors and 80 partners. The full list of sponsors can be found here.

Embracing innovation

As the industry platform for innovation, Futurebuild has continued to partner with game-changing brands. Follow our Innovation Trail to meet our Innovation Partners: Advantage Austria, Alternative Heating Solutions, NexGen, MKc Training Services Ltd, Bauder, Better Energy, the Concrete Centre, Innovate UK, Sugastune UK Ltd, SDS Limited, Qvantum, Mixergy Limited, LKAB Minerals Limited, Glen Dimplex Heating and Ventilation, Aico, 540 World and Kensa.

The Future X Innovation section, sponsored by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, The Carbon Trust and Innovate UK is an exciting zone that showcases start-ups and SME’s innovative ideas and technologies that will make net zero possible.

The Big Innovation Pitch also returns for 2024, and will highlight the newest and brightest solutions to built environment challenges in an exciting presentation battle, taking place in front of a live audience. Taking part in this year’s Big Innovation Pitch will be the six finalists: Adaptavate, Algreen, Gentian Ltd, NexGen, Hempwood and K-Briq.

Accelerating high-quality retrofit

For the first time, Futurebuild has partnered with The National Retrofit Academy to launch The National Retrofit Conference, which will take place alongside Futurebuild 2024. Sponsored by Sustainable Building Services UK (Ltd), the National Retrofit Conference will bring together visionaries and industry leaders to focus on a crucial mission – decarbonising our existing housing stock.

The three-day conference will focus on Skills, Innovation and Policy and provide the practical solutions that attendees can take away to drive their retrofit programmes forward, with a line-up of speakers that includes thought leaders from inside and outside of the sector.

Futurebuild 2024 invites industry leaders, visionaries, and enthusiasts alike to join us, and share ideas, embrace innovation and help create the blueprint for a better tomorrow.

For more details and exhibitor enquires, visit www.futurebuild.co.uk

Don’t miss out on Futurebuild 2024. Register now

For further information, please contact David Ing at Fabrick on:

Telephone: 01622 754295

Email: [email protected]

About Futurebuild: Futurebuild is an event that brings together more than 15,000 building industry influencers and decision-makers with the power to make a difference and form part of a major transformation of the sustainable built environment. By cultivating this type of cross-sector collaboration, Futurebuild is helping to inspire the innovation that is needed to propel the construction industry towards the UK government’s ambitious net-zero target. Such an outcome is essential to creating a cleaner, healthier environment for future generations to enjoy.

About Easyfairs, organisers of Futurebuild: Easyfairs organises and hosts events, bringing communities together to visit the future.

We currently organise 200 face-to-face events in 14 countries (Algeria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom) and manage eight event venues in Belgium, the Netherlands and Sweden (Antwerp, Ghent, Mechelen-Brussels North, Namur, Gorinchem, Hardenberg, Malmö and Stockholm).

We are passionate about “easifying” the life of our customers and increasing the return on investment and return on time for professional communities through our all-in formulas, advanced technology and customer-centric approach. Our digital features and initiatives provide these communities with excellent opportunities to network effectively and do business throughout the year.

The Easyfairs Group employs 700 highly committed talents, deploys the best marketing and technology tools, and develops brands with a strong appeal to our stakeholder communities.

For the fourth year running, Deloitte conferred “Best Managed Company” status on Easyfairs in 2022. In 2018 Easyfairs was named Belgium’s “Entrepreneur of the Year®” and a “Great Place to Work”.

Easyfairs is proud to be one of the top 20 world’s exhibition organisers, according to the AMR annual ranking.

Visit the future with Easyfairs and find out more on www.easyfairs.com

Please note: the views expressed in this blog are those of the individual contributing member and are not necessarily representative of the views of IEMA or any professional institutions with which IEMA is associated.