Innovative Building Materials Summit
A technical deep-dive into how building materials can provide solutions to quickening climate change, rapid habitat destruction, and increased threats to human and ecological health.
Tuesday, November 4, 2025, at the Los Angeles Convention Center
A Close Look At Building Materials
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.
What to Expect
CE-Accredited Sessions
Greenbuild's Summit Working Group has programmed an in-depth session to give attendees an inside look at how innovative building materials can help us solve and mitigate climate disasters. This all-day Summit will allow attendees to dive into use cases for building materials, case studies, and how they can benefit building projects.
Continuing education credits are available for Greenbuild's in-person summits.
Who Will You Hear From?
Our summit speakers bring their expertise, specialized knowledge and experience to the room for a focused learning experience like no other.
With CEOs, CIOs, Presidents, Vice Presidents, Partners and various other sustainability leaders taking to the stage, you couldn't be in better company.
Who Will You Meet?
Greenbuild features a cutting-edge community of global green building professionals looking to improve sustainability, resilience, equity, health and wellness in the spaces we live, work, play and learn. Take a look at who you'll meet at a Greenbuild summit.
Summit Sessions
What’s New from the Major Demand Drivers for Green Building Materials?
This panel of experts will share why demand for innovative materials is growing. You will hear from experts who specify, require, or rate products and ecolabels based on desired attributes for building materials, including embodied carbon, material transparency, circularity, and ecosystem protections. Panelists in this session will address both what’s now and what’s next from innovative materials demand drivers.
Learning Objectives:
Understand what is happening now among the large drivers of materials in this space, including policymakers, rating systems, and building owners.
Learn how alignment is happening among the groups to speed uptake of product standards, such as product scoring in LEED v5 credit: Building Product Selection and Procurement.
Understand the vision for where leadership can happen in today’s regulatory landscape.
Hear from experts on what is needed for the next few years to scale-up and enhance the availability of better materials.
Unpacking multi-attribute materials in LEED v5
Summit participants will engage in an interactive session to better unpack the requirements for product scoring in LEED v5 as found in the MR credit 4: Building Product Selection & Procurement.
Learning Objectives:
Understand the multi-attribute scoring system in LEED v5 MR credit 4: Building Product Selection & Procurement
Learn how to identify if a product meets the LEED v5 requirements quickly.
Learn about tools and resources for finding compliant products for LEED v5.
Demonstrate how to evaluate the multi-attributes of products and prioritize selection for the most credit value.
How the Supply Side is Answering the Call to Decarbonize and Prioritize Multi-Attributes of Materials
Speakers representing major material industries will engage in a discussion about what’s now and what’s next in their industries. Panelists will present on major categories such as wood, concrete, steel and more. Following the presentations will be a conversation between panelists to identify common challenges and solutions for today and tomorrow.
Learning Objectives:
Understand what’s innovative from the largest materials categories, including those covered in the LEED v5 MR credit: Quantify & Assess Embodied Carbon.
Understand what’s similar and different from major material categories regarding multi-attributes of materials.
Learn about innovations you can use today on your projects for some of the most impactful reductions.
Hear what is next on the horizon to decarbonize and improve mutli-attribute criteria for core structural materials.
Hollywood Squares - An Interactive Game
Join the Materials Summit attendees for an interactive, fun and informative activity following lunch.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand some pros and cons of materials and how to navigate those tradeoffs.
- Hear the latest challenges and opportunities for building materials around circularity and material health.
- Learn about whole life carbon analysis and why it holds promise for prioritizing materials on every building project.
- Learn about complex sustainability topic in a fun and interactive experience.
What innovation does the building products industry need and how can we get there?
Speakers will inspire the audience to think big and start to embrace the next generation of solutions for the building products industry. A curated set of green building luminaries will explain why this radical transformation is necessary now and what each one of us can do to generate positive change. Get inspired and be prepared to leave the summit ready to make a difference!
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the implications of radically low-embodied carbon products and how to get rewarded for them in LEED v5, including MRc2: Reduce Embodied Carbon.
- Hear about inspiring innovations happening throughout the materials ecosystem.
- Learn how to apply what you learned to everyday decisions for products on your projects, starting now.
- Engage in a 30 minute “ask the experts” facilitated discussion to close out the day.
A new global step forward for sustainable building materials
The world’s leading green building organizations have joined forces to harmonize how sustainable building products and materials are assessed. In this plenary conversation, representatives from each organization will share how they plan to engage and harmonize sustainable product criteria over time.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand how the largest global green building organizations are planning to harmonize green product criteria.
- Hear about efforts already underway to align criteria in the sustainable building products space.
- Learn about a new toolkit of resources released by Mindful Materials to support collective goals to scale sustainable building products.
- Engage in some dialog with plenary speakers to ask burning questions about this new initiative.
Secure Your Spot
Greenbuild's Summits offer a technical, hands-on course where you can work directly with experts and peers on critical topics impacting our industry.
Summits included in Conference and Student Passes
Summit Working Group Members
The Greenbuild Summit Working Group consists of green building experts that advises our conference and program team on all aspects of our 2025 Summits, ensuring Greenbuild is at the forefront of the industry.
- Wes Sullens, Director, LEED, U.S. Green Building Council
- Jamy Bacchus, Associate Principal, ME Engineers
- Tanya Eagle, Director, Sustainable Buildings Team Lead, JLL
- Josie Kohlan, Sustainability Director, Goodmans
- Josh Jacobs, Managing Director, WAP Sustainability
- Liz Resenic, Senior Associate | Sustainability Director, Gensler
Summit Sponsorship Available
Guarantee that the green building industry identifies you as a partner by sponsoring one of Greenbuild's Summits or Workshops taking place Tuesday, November 4, 2025, at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
Eric Peterson
Sponsorship Opportunities
202.256.0939
eric.peterson@informa.com