Why This Meeting Is Unmissable for You
As an owner, developer, or client representative, you're ultimately accountable for ensuring projects are delivered safely, efficiently, and to the quality standards your business expects. Yet increasing project complexity, tighter schedules, evolving stakeholder requirements, and growing reliance on external delivery partners make maintaining quality more challenging than ever.
Advancing Construction Quality gives you the opportunity to learn directly from fellow owners, developers, contractors, and design leaders who are embedding quality earlier in project planning, aligning delivery partners around measurable outcomes, and reducing costly downstream rework. Whether you're delivering data centers, infrastructure, manufacturing facilities, transportation projects, or commercial developments, you'll leave with practical strategies to strengthen project oversight, improve contractor accountability, and achieve greater delivery certainty.
Challenges We Help Solve
Aligning Contractor Performance with Owner Quality Expectations
Learn how leading organizations are defining quality requirements, KPIs, and reporting frameworks that ensure delivery partners remain focused on what matters most throughout the project lifecycle.
Reducing Rework Before Construction Begins
Discover how early collaboration between owners, designers, contractors, and trades can identify constructability risks, eliminate scope gaps, and prevent costly project delays.
Improving Delivery Certainty on Complex Projects
Benchmark approaches for managing quality across large-scale data centers, infrastructure projects, industrial facilities, and other high-risk developments where project complexity continues to increase.
Strengthening Supplier & Partner Accountability
Explore strategies for embedding quality expectations into procurement, contractor selection, supplier management, and project governance processes.
Demonstrating the Business Value of Quality
Understand how quality leaders are linking quality performance to reduced rework, improved margins, stronger stakeholder confidence, and better project outcomes.
Key Sessions Recommended For You
Owner Quality Governance & Performance Management
Aligning Owner-Mandated KPIs with Internal Quality Priorities to Prevent Misaligned Execution & Reporting
Conference Day 1
Speakers:
- Ashot Sargsyan, Deputy Executive Officer, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
- Kyle Kelly, Director of Quality, EllisDon Corporation
- John Hamblin, Principal Architect – Global Design & Construction, Equinix
- Julie Youngblood, Strategy & Operations Director, Intel Corporation
As owner involvement increases across major capital projects, quality expectations are becoming more deeply embedded into contracts and project governance. Learn how leading owners and contractors are aligning performance metrics, reporting requirements, and delivery expectations to drive greater accountability and project certainty.
Embedding Quality Earlier in the Project Lifecycle
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
The biggest quality issues often originate before construction begins. Discover how owners, designers, contractors, and trades are collaborating earlier to improve constructability, strengthen planning, reduce scope gaps, and eliminate costly rework before it reaches the field.
Supplier Quality & Procurement Excellence
Embedding Quality Requirements into Supplier Selection, Contracts & Checkpoints to Prevent Downstream Rework & Performance Failures
Conference Day 2
Speakers:
- Julie Youngblood, Strategy & Operations Director, Intel Corporation
- Marcus Alger, Corporate Quality Supervisor, PCL Construction Enterprises
- Jeremy Bunting, Senior Quality Control Manager, Clayco
- Mariah Maifarth, Quality Director, Kiewit
Many project quality issues originate within the supply chain. Learn how leading owners are embedding quality requirements into procurement processes, contractor selection, performance reviews, and project checkpoints to reduce risk, strengthen accountability, and improve project outcomes.
Questions to Ask to Benchmark Against Peers
Use the conference to compare your approach against fellow owners and developers:
How are leading owners measuring quality performance across projects and holding delivery partners accountable to those metrics?
What quality requirements and KPIs are being embedded into contracts, procurement processes, and governance frameworks?
How early are successful organizations involving quality teams during planning, design, and preconstruction to reduce downstream rework?
How are owners balancing aggressive schedules and budget pressures while maintaining quality standards on complex projects?
What strategies are proving most effective for improving contractor, trade partner, and supplier accountability throughout project delivery?
How are peers building quality into commissioning, turnover, and project closeout processes to improve delivery certainty and owner satisfaction?
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 an owner or developer, 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.
