Futurebuild Show Preview
While conference discussions will focus
on the biggest issues facing the built
environment at a macro level, the six
Keynote Stages will look at the specific
challenges impacting Buildings, Offsite,
Energy, Interiors, Resourceful Materials
and Critical Infrastructure. This
programme of solution-driven sessions
will share the latest thinking and
research, to educate, inform and inspire
visitors to make a positive change.
The six Keynote Stages will address
the following challenges:
• Buildings: retrofitted, re-used, net
positive and built to perform
• Offsite: reliability and efficiency
combined with creative placemaking
• Interiors: sustainable and health
promoting
Within the Buildings area at Futurebuild
2020, visitors will have the chance to
explore and discuss the latest building
technology, innovations and legislation.
Showcases will cover everything from
retrofit to re-use, to future plans for
net-positive buildings.
The 2020 Buildings section will feature
two new showcase areas, the Whole
House Retrofit Zone and the Digital
Impact where visitors will be able
to explore new refurb and retrofit
solutions and the latest developments
in digital construction.
Connecting the whole event will be
the Innovation Trail – a guided route
where visitors will discover innovative
products, solutions and materials and
meet the leading thinkers behind them.
• Energy: accurate data for carbon
accounting and reduced clean energy
usage Futurebuild has partnered with brands
who share the common purpose
of finding solutions to the biggest
challenges currently facing the build
environment. These include ACO
Technologies, Smart Systems, CEMEX,
Steico and Hadley Group.
• Critical Infrastructure: delivering
integrated green, grey, blue and
social infrastructure Martin Hurn, Event Director at
Futurebuild, comments: “The
responsibility for tackling the climate
• Resourceful Materials: thinking
circular to reduce, reuse and recycle
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emergency lies in all of our hands
and we must collaborate in order to
find solutions to secure our future.
Futurebuild 2020 provides the perfect
platform for forward-thinking decision
makers across the built environment
to come together and play a key part in
driving positive change.
“We understand that taking time out
of work to attend events can be a
challenge, which is why we will make
sure that visitors can really get involved
across a number of levels, from the
world class knowledge programme in
the Arena and on the Keynote Stages, to
the showcase of the latest innovations
across the exhibition. Innovation to us
is more than just futuristic concepts,
it’s about sharing the latest thinking
and ideas, processes and solutions,
products and materials. All of these
things coming together under one roof
at Futurebuild 2020 will inspire people
to do things differently and create real
change.”
For more information about
Futurebuild 2020, the home of
innovation, visit
www.futurebuild.co.uk.