Why Owners & Developers Need to Attend Advancing Mass Timber & Bio-Based Construction Materials 2026
Why This Event Matters
For owners and developers, material selection has become a strategic business decision rather than a purely technical one. Rising construction costs, labour shortages, insurance scrutiny, supply chain volatility, and embodied carbon pressures are forcing project teams to evaluate structural systems earlier and more holistically than ever before.
Advancing Mass Timber & Bio-Based Construction Materialsunderstands that you’re the ultimate approval layer for material strategy, risk tolerance, and adoption decisions. Therefore, you need to come together with the rest of ecosystem at a practical, solutions-focused meeting to understand and learn from each other’s expertise.
What You'll Learn
How leading owners are evaluating and integrating mass timber alongside steel and concrete
Strategies for improving project viability and insurability
Methods to achieve program certainty through strategies like prefabrication and modular delivery
How hybrid systems can optimise both sustainability and commercial outcomes
Practical approaches for gaining stakeholder buy-in on innovative material systems
Lessons from real-world projects and case studies scaling bio-based construction
How insurers, contractors and developers are aligning earlier in project delivery
Must-Attend Sessions
Navigating the Journey from Uncertainty to Underwriting
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Why it matters: Owners ultimately carry project risk. This session directly addresses insurability, financing confidence and underwriting requirements.
Driving Cost Competitiveness: Making Mass Timber & Bio-Based Materials Work Financially
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Business value: Understand how schedule savings, labour efficiencies and prefabrication can offset perceived material premiums.
Advancing Mass Timber in Large Scale Industrial Development
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Business value: Demonstrates how innovative materials are being deployed in large-scale commercial environments.
Who You Will Meet
The audience of this event includes key decision makers from across the whole mass timber & bio-based ecosystem, including:
- General contractors
- Insurance providers
- Design leaders
- Developers who have completed first-generation mass timber projects
- Material manufacturers
Emerging Trends for You to Explore
Hybrid construction approaches
Large-scale industrial applications
Earlier insurer engagement
Modular and offsite delivery
Material decisions based on commercial outcomes instead of sustainability alone
Final Takeaway
Owners and developers are increasingly the gatekeepers of bio-based material adoption. This event gives you direct access to the stakeholders, delivery experiences and risk frameworks necessary to make more confident project decisions.
Explore the Agenda
Engage with a practical, insight-led program featuring real project case studies, interactive roundtables, panel discussions, and structured networking designed to address the realities of project delivery with mass timber and bio-based materials.
Showcase Your Solutions to Industry Decision-Makers
Position your expertise at the forefront as owners, developers, contractors, and design teams assess the materials, technologies, and strategies shaping the future of sustainable construction.
Join the Leaders Driving Adoption
Get in the room with senior stakeholders across the construction value chain and engage in targeted workshops, expert-led discussions, and curated networking.