Why This Meeting Is Unmissable for You
As a consultant, advisor, risk specialist, testing expert, building science professional, or quality services provider, you're often brought in to solve the industry's most complex quality challenges. From reducing project risk and improving constructability, to strengthening quality systems and preventing costly failures, your clients rely on your expertise to improve project outcomes and delivery performance.
Advancing Construction Quality provides a unique opportunity to hear directly from owners, contractors, designers, and quality leaders about the challenges shaping the industry. Understand where quality priorities are evolving, benchmark emerging best practices, and gain insight into the operational, technical, and business challenges your clients are trying to solve.
Whether you specialize in building science, commissioning, testing, risk engineering, quality consulting, or organizational excellence, you'll leave with new perspectives, practical insights, and valuable industry connections.
Challenges We Help Solve
Helping Clients Move from Reactive to Preventative Quality
Learn how leading organizations are embedding quality earlier in project planning and execution to reduce defects and improve first-time-right delivery.
Strengthening Quality Leadership & Organizational Buy-In
Understand how quality leaders are making the business case for quality, securing executive support, and embedding quality into company culture.
Addressing Technical Risk Before It Impacts Project Delivery
Explore practical approaches for managing envelope performance, testing requirements, commissioning, and quality governance across increasingly complex projects.
Improving Cross-Functional Collaboration Across the Project Lifecycle
Discover how owners, contractors, designers, and specialist advisors are breaking down silos to improve communication, accountability, and project outcomes.
Guiding Clients Through Emerging Industry Priorities
Learn how organizations are approaching AI adoption, digital quality tools, supplier quality, and risk-based quality programs as expectations continue to evolve.
Key Sessions Recommended For You
Quality Workforce Development & Organizational Excellence
Building a Dedicated Quality Workforce to Improve Understanding of Quality Requirements
Workshop Day
Speaker:
- Michael Lang, North America Quality Director, Bilfinger North America
Quality professionals are increasingly being asked to develop talent, create career pathways, and build sustainable quality cultures. Learn how organizations are developing business-minded quality leaders, embedding structured problem-solving, and creating long-term capability across the business.
Building Science, Risk & Failure Prevention
Preventing Costly Envelope & Concrete Failures by Proactively Managing Water Intrusion & Thermal Risk
Conference Day 2
Speaker:
- John Hamblin, Principal Architect – Global Design & Construction, Equinix
Building enclosure failures remain among the most expensive quality issues in construction. Learn practical strategies for reducing risk through design review, verification processes, and proactive building science practices before failures occur.
Testing, Verification & Risk Management
Managing Third-Party Testing Risk to Protect Your Project from Unjustified NCRs
Conference Day 2
Speaker:
- Sy Winkelman, National Director – Materials Services, Terracon Consultants
- Nick Willick, Quality Control Manager, The Walsh Group – Walsh Construction & Archer Western
For consultants, testing specialists, and risk advisors, this session addresses a critical challenge: ensuring testing and verification processes support project success rather than creating avoidable disputes, rework, and delays.
Questions to Ask to Benchmark Against Peers
Use the conference to compare your approach against fellow designers:
What quality risks are creating the greatest challenges for owners, contractors, and project teams today?
How are leading organizations measuring the value and business impact of quality programs?
Where are project teams experiencing the most common breakdowns between design, construction, testing, and commissioning?
How are organizations approaching technical quality challenges such as building envelope performance, testing protocols, and commissioning requirements?
What role will AI, automation, and data analytics play in the future of construction quality?
How are quality leaders strengthening workforce capability, organizational buy-in, and long-term quality culture?
A Sample Of Who You Could Network With
Advancing Construction Quality brings together the stakeholders responsible for delivering quality across North America's most complex projects. As a general contractor, you'll be able to exchange ideas with:
Leading Owners & Developers
General Contractors
Trade Contractors & EPCs
Architects, Engineers & Design Leaders
Quality Consultants, Testing & Risk Specialists
Leave with a clearer understanding of how owners, contractors, designers, and advisors are working together to reduce rework, improve accountability, and deliver projects right the first time.
Turn Quality into Action
Whether you're shaping enterprise-wide quality strategy, improving field execution, reducing rework, or driving stronger project outcomes, Advancing Construction Quality 2026 is where the industry's leading owners, contractors, designers and quality professionals come together to learn from one another and benchmark best practices.
If you attend, you can enjoy:
- 60+ expert speakers
- 4 dedicated conference tracks
- Practical case studies
- Unmatched networking opportunities
Leave with actionable ideas you can implement immediately.
