Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing how we design, construct, and manage the built environment. This summit delves into practical, real-world applications of AI that deliver measurable sustainability outcomes while critically examining the challenges, gaps, and unintended consequences.

Intensifying wildfires, increasing flood risks, and record-breaking heatwaves are reshaping how we think about building performance. As climate hazards escalate, the ability of buildings to protect occupants and maintain functionality is essential to resilience planning. This Summit explores how buildings can be designed and retrofitted to withstand the growing threats of fire, flood, and heat.

There has never been a more important time for building materials. Quickening climate change, rapid habitat destruction, and increased threats to human and ecological health mean the world faces big challenges this generation. However, innovative materials manufacturers, owners, designers, and construction teams are leading the way towards reducing impact and reversing harms. This summit will focus on solutions that building materials provide to these challenges and deliver impactful takeaways that attendees can start practicing today.

Awareness of the impacts of the built environment on human health and adoption of strategies to enhance the wellbeing of building occupants through design has grown since the green building movement was launched. This Summit looks past occupants alone and considers the impacts of buildings on the health of supply chain workers, neighboring communities, and communities exposed to extraction, manufacturing, and disposal facilities; and looks past the average occupant to envision spaces that are safe and accessible for all.

Phius passive building principles offer a path to a built environment that supports the health of people and the planet. The Phius Standard is already being implemented to create healthy, efficient, resilient buildings of all types and sizes in climate zones across the United States and beyond. Fostering the continued uptake of Phius projects is a multifaceted effort rooted in the sharing of knowledge among green building professionals.