Day One

• Engineering long-term resilience through smart moisture control, robust detailing, protective coatings, and lifecycle-focused maintenance strategies
• Evaluating the suitability of mass timber and emerging bio-based materials for exterior and exposed applications, including durability, weather resistance, and climate resilience
• Combining bio-based and hybrid systems – including mass timber, low-carbon gypsum, and bio-based insulation – to balance resilience, performance, and project outcomes across building type

• Where are the biggest workforce and/or production bottlenecks today, and how can adjacent trades (steel, concrete, engineered systems) be mobilized to support the advancement of mass timber and bio-based productions and materials in construction?
• Are self-perform and vertically integrated delivery models the answer to labor shortages, schedule pressures, cost, and quality control challenges? What lessons are emerging from the market? • What training, education, and upskilling initiatives are proving most effective in building workforce capacity and accelerating adoption at scale?
• Are the most effective tools offered through higher education, trade organizations, or other means? Does it matter if the format is online/virtual or in-person?

• Using the C-CLIMB methodology to evaluate the climate impact of long-lived, carbonstoring materials for more informed material selection and design decisions
• Moving from carbon accounting to climate-informed decision-making, leveraging EPDs, climate impact data, and project case studies to support delivery certainty
• Exploring why carbon storage remains one of the most unresolved questions in LCA and why the building sector has struggled to communicate carbon storage benefits consistently

• Clarifying roles and responsibilities across mass timber and bio-based delivery to reduce uncertainty and demonstrate how installation, coordination, and production align from design through implementation
• Addressing perceived performance concerns by addressing the knowledge gap in structural, architectural, and installation practices to strengthen confidence in realworld application
• Strengthening practical adoption by improving understanding of permitting, detailing, and exterior applications in different project contexts 

• Assessing how trade policy, tariffs, and global market dynamics influence pricing, cost competitiveness, and long-term market stability of mass timber and emerging bio-based materials
• Examining the core drivers of supply and demand volatility – including housing market fluctuations, economic uncertainty, and shifts in production capacity – and how to best navigate these to ensure income certainty
• Exploring strategies to stabilize supply across federal, state, tribal, and private forests to improve forecasting, production planning, and industry resilience

• Accelerating construction and installation by leveraging prefabrication to minimize site disruptions, reduce rework, shorten dry-in timelines, and maintain schedule certainty
• Executing projects more efficiently through early integration of modular and offsite delivery strategies to reduce customization, increase repeatability, and enhance costcompetitiveness
• Streamlining modularity execution through logistical coordination across design, manufacturing, and installation for improved predictability

• Discussing how to optimize the ‘four certainties’ contractors require – time, cost, material, and labor – and why they ultimately determine the scalability of operations
• Exploring how improved predictability in scheduling, procurement, and field execution strengthens contractor confidence and reduces perceived risk in innovative delivery systems
• Examining how reducing on-site construction time demonstrates efficiency gains and produces stronger adoption behaviors

As mass timber and bio-based materials continue to gain momentum, questions remain around whether the benefits justify the costs, complexity, and changes required to traditional delivery models.

This interactive debate will bring together owners, developers, architects, engineers, contractors, and manufacturers to challenge assumptions, share experiences, and determine where these materials deliver the greatest value.

• How delivery and resourcing models shape scalability, including their impact on workforce development, capability building, and the ability to meet growing market demands
• Balancing self-perform and subcontracted scopes in mass timber and bio-based delivery, and where the respective approaches add the most value across project types
• Addressing client advantages of vertically integrated and self-perform delivery models, including improved cost control, schedule certainty, coordination, and execution quality