Why This Meeting Is Unmissable for You
Quality issues don't begin in the field. Many of the most costly project risks originate during planning, design development, coordination, and documentation. As project complexity increases across data centers, infrastructure, advanced manufacturing, healthcare, and commercial construction, design teams are under growing pressure to improve constructability, reduce coordination issues, and deliver better project outcomes from day one.
Advancing Construction Quality brings together architects, engineers, contractors, owners, and quality leaders to explore how quality can be embedded throughout the project lifecycle. Learn how leading firms are improving cross-functional collaboration, reducing design-driven rework, strengthening documentation quality, and creating stronger alignment between design intent and field execution.
Challenges We Help Solve
Reducing Rework Caused by Design Gaps & Coordination Issues
Learn how leading firms are identifying constructability challenges, strengthening design reviews, and improving coordination before issues impact project delivery.
Improving Collaboration Between Owners, Designers & Contractors
Explore strategies for breaking down silos and aligning stakeholders around common quality objectives from preconstruction through turnover.
Embedding Quality Earlier in the Project Lifecycle
Discover how quality can be incorporated during planning, estimating, procurement, and design development to improve outcomes and reduce downstream risk.
Strengthening Documentation Quality & Constructability
Benchmark approaches for improving design deliverables, managing revisions, and ensuring project teams have the information needed to execute successfully in the field.
Bridging the Gap Between Design Intent & Field Execution
Learn how architects, engineers, quality teams, and contractors are working together to ensure projects are delivered as designed while minimizing costly changes and disputes.
Key Sessions Recommended For You
Design Integration & Early Quality Planning
Bringing Quality into Pre-Design Phase to Prevent Rework & Strengthen Project Outcomes
Conference Day 1
Speakers:
- Jay Glasco, Construction Quality Manager, Microsoft
- Jeanette Shaw, Director of Quality & Sustainability, Powers Brown Architecture
- Susan Tienhaara, Quality Manager, Govan Brown & Associates
- Tonya Johnson, Director of Quality Assurance & Quality Control, Nibbi Brothers General Contractors
This is arguably the most relevant session on the agenda for design professionals. Learn how owners, architects, contractors, and quality leaders are embedding quality at the earliest stages of project planning to improve constructability, reduce design gaps, and prevent downstream rework before construction begins.
Managing Design Change & Documentation Quality
Maintaining Quality Control in Fast Changing Projects by Turning Change into a Managed Process
Conference Day 1
Speaker:
- Derek Dizon, Senior Associate – Project Architect & QA/QC Manager, Merriman Anderson Architects
Design changes are often unavoidable, but poorly managed revisions can introduce quality risks, coordination issues, and costly downstream impacts. Discover how design teams can improve document control, manage evolving requirements, and protect quality throughout the project lifecycle.
Design-Contractor Collaboration & Constructability
Aligning Designers & Contractors Early to Improve Quality Outcomes & Reduce Communication Breakdowns
Workshop Day
Speaker:
- Jeanette Shaw, Director of Quality & Sustainability, Powers Brown Architecture
- Jeff Cumpston, Corporate Quality Manager, PCL Construction Enterprises
One of the most valuable sessions for design professionals. Learn practical strategies for improving architect-contractor collaboration, clarifying responsibilities, creating structured feedback loops, and resolving design challenges before they become field issues.
Questions to Ask to Benchmark Against Peers
Use the conference to compare your approach against fellow designers:
How are leading design firms incorporating quality into planning and design processes before projects reach construction?
What approaches are proving most effective for improving constructability reviews and reducing design-driven rework?
How are successful project teams improving collaboration between owners, designers, contractors, and trades?
How are firms maintaining documentation quality and managing design revisions on increasingly complex projects?
What quality expectations are owners increasingly placing on designers during project delivery?
How are peers ensuring design intent is successfully carried through construction, commissioning, and turnover?
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.
