How Specialty Contractors Can Position Themselves for the Next Wave of Bio-Based Construction
Why This Event Matters
As mass timber and bio-based materials move into larger and more complex projects, specialty contractors are playing an increasingly important role in ensuring successful project delivery. From constructability and installation sequencing to material handling, logistics, and field execution, this event provides an opportunity to learn directly from the owners, contractors, designers, and manufacturers advancing these systems across real-world projects.
What You'll Learn
How emerging materials are being underwritten
Fire and moisture risk mitigation strategies
Real-world claims and performance evidence
Risk engineering approaches
Aligning insurers with project teams earlier
Aligning insurers with project teams earlier
Must-Attend Sessions
Navigating the Journey from Uncertainty to Underwriting
Speakers:
Why it matters: Learn what insurers, risk teams, and project stakeholders need to see to improve underwriting confidence and support wider adoption of mass timber and bio-based projects.
Panel Discussion: From Risk to Reliability
Speakers:
Why it matters: Discover proven approaches to managing fire, moisture, construction, and operational risks that can strengthen insurability and improve project outcomes.
Audience Discussion: Building with Confidence: Navigating Codes, Compliance & Approvals
Speakers: This will be an interactive discussion with senior leaders from regulatory, design, and project delivery.
Why it matters:Understand how evolving codes, compliance requirements, and approval pathways influence project risk profiles, financing confidence, and market adoption.
Who You Will Meet
The audience of this event includes key decision makers from across the whole mass timber & bio-based ecosystem, including:
- Developers
- Risk engineers
- Major contractors
- Architects
- Manufacturers
Emerging Trends for You to Explore
Performance-based underwriting
Hybrid risk profiles
Fire-performance improvements
Earlier risk engagement
Delivery-focused evidence gathering
Final Takeaway
As mass timber and bio-based materials move into larger, more commercially significant projects, insurers, lenders, and risk advisors have an increasingly important role in shaping their adoption.
Advancing Mass Timber & Bio-Based Construction Materials offers a unique opportunity to understand emerging risk considerations, learn from real project outcomes, and build relationships with the owners, contractors, and designers driving the next generation of construction projects.
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.