Futurebuild is more than just an event, it’s where connections spark change. Uniting over 9,000 industry professionals, 400+ leading brands and start-ups and 550+ inspiring speakers across eight CPD-accredited stages. Futurebuild 2026 is the UK’s most influential event for the built environment.
This year’s theme Connect, highlights the transformative power of collaboration linking people, ideas and technologies to drive real change. It’s about uniting the built environment to foster partnerships and solutions that shape a sustainable future.
Join architects, engineers, deveopers, tier 1 contractors, local authorities and sustainability leaders who are shaping a better, more resilient built environment.
unique professionals who share your passion for progress
pioneering brands bringing innovation
industry leading speakers
hours of CPD learning
CPD-accredited content stages
Unique professionals who share your passion for progress
industry leading speakers
of attendees left with new connections that moved projects forward
pioneering brands bringing innovation
hours of CPD learning
Here’s why Futurebuild 2026 is unmissable:
Meet architects, tie 1 contractors, engineers, policymakers, and sustainability pioneers driving real-world change.
Access three days of CPD-accredited content, curated by 90+ partners across eight stages, featuring over 550 thought leaders shaping the future of the built environment.
From future-ready products to practical solutions for achieving net zero, you’ll find everything you need to take action in your work. We will connect you with innovative solutions from hundreds of leaders in the built environment across the three days.
The Futurebuild 2026 Knowledge Programme brings together two leading conference arenas and multiple CPD-accredited seminar stages, delivering the insight, innovation and collaboration needed to drive a net-zero built environment.
Futurebuild Arena, sponsored by Mitsubishi Electric, is at the heart of the knowledge programme, showcasing thought leadership on the most pressing challenges facing the built environment. This year, the focus is on resilience, reuse and regenerative design, providing actionable insights to help the industry turn ambition into real-world impact.
The National Retrofit Conference is the UK’s leading forum for building decarbonisation, delivering expert insights on policies, strategies, and innovations driving large-scale retrofit. Attendees can learn from thought leaders, explore practical case studies and gain the knowledge needed to accelerate net-zero action.
Multiple Seminar stages curated by industry partners deliver real-world case studies and CPD-accredited learning on sustainable design, innovation, and performance. New for 2026, the Zero Waste sessions exploring circular construction, resource efficiency and solutions for a net-zero built environment.
With 133 hours of CPD content, this year’s programme centres on three themes: Resilience, Reuse and Regenerative Design, showing how insight and innovation can turn ambition into action.
Be part of a community that’s shaping the future of construction and sustainability. Exchange insights with experts, discover actionable solutions, and connect with professionals who are driving change in every part of the built environment.
Every great change begins with a connection, a shared idea, a conversation, a moment of collaboration.
Connect with innovation across the show floor, featuring 400+ pioneering brands driving change. Follow the Innovation Trail to discover breakthrough products and systems, and experience the excitement of the Big Innovation Pitch and Big Retrofit Challenge 2.0 in partnership with Innovate UK & NHDG, where bold ideas meet real-world impact.
Trialblazing Innovation
Innovative brands come to life giving specifiers the opportunity to explore new products, solutions and materials.
Futurebuild is the industry platform for innovation and has again partnered with game-changing brands known as Innovation Partners, to showcase their latest innovative technologies, products and services.
Follow 15 pioneers on the Innovation Trail across the show floor to see these Innovation Partners. The Trail will give specifiers the opportunity to explore revolutionary products, solutions and materials and meet the leading thinkers behind innovations that will influence the future.
The Big Innovation Pitch
Pushing the boundaries of possibility, the Big Innovation Pitch puts the industry’s most exciting breakthroughs in the spotlight. Six pioneering innovations compete live on the Arena stage, pitching their game-changing solutions that could reshape construction.
This year, Agreka Build won with WHEATEX, the world’s first circular, bio-based insulation board made entirely from waste wheat straw. It’s a perfect example of how Futurebuild launches innovations that transform the industry.
The Big Retrofit Challenge
Futurebuild, with the NHDG and Innovate UK, is back to accelerate home and building decarbonisation. Innovators developing retrofit, digital, or AI solutions can pitch live at the National Retrofit Conference and connect with industry leaders.
This initiative is designed to unearth pioneering solutions for decarbonisation and healthy living spaces, offering innovators a platform to showcase products, processes, systems, and new approaches that support healthy homes in the UK’s built environment.
At the Futurebuild Arena, sponsored by Mitsubishi Electric, sessions will explore how to drive impact across the built and natural environments. Discussions will focus on actions needed in the next 12 months, by 2030, and by 2035 to build a sustainable, fair, and thriving economy.
More information coming soon
Themes include:
Day 1: Putting circularity at the heart of what we all do
Day 2: Sustainability, social justice, and transition
Day 3: Making it happen
Futurebuild is more than an exhibition. Join us at Futurebuild 2026 to gain CPD credits, the tools, insights, and connections you need to stay ahead of industry trends and make your projects more sustainable and impactful.
Each of the seven seminar stages is curated by our partners and built around real case studies, providing you with practical, CPD-accredited learning you can apply directly to your work.
The challenge is to deliver beautiful, net-zero, climate-resilient buildings with high safety and long-term maintenance standards.
Featuring insights from top organisations, including SDF, Woodknowledge Wales, Good Homes Alliance, Passivhaus Trust, ASBP & Sustainable Traditional Buildings Alliance. This seminar Stage covers key aspects of design, including Passivhaus standards, modular construction, lighting, acoustics, and the Future Homes Standard—equipping you with essential tools for sustainable building.
The challenge is to deliver beautiful, net-zero, climate-resilient buildings with high safety and long-term maintenance standards.
Sponsored by HG Matthews and featuring insights from top organisations, this Impact Stage covers key aspects of design, including Passivhaus standards, modular construction, lighting, acoustics, and the Future Homes Standard—equipping you with essential tools for sustainable building.
As decarbonisation targets loom, reducing resource use, boosting efficiency, and increasing renewables are essential. This seminar Stage covers critical energy issues in construction, offering policy updates and practical tools to help you lead the industry’s low-carbon transition.
Hear from key organisations like CIBSE, HPA UK, UKDEA, MCS & Sustainable Energy Association.
As decarbonisation targets loom, reducing resource use, boosting efficiency, and increasing renewables are essential. Sponsored by Kensa and featuring insights from key organisations like Bioregional and CIBSE, this Impact Stage covers critical energy issues in construction, offering policy updates and practical tools to help you lead the industry’s low-carbon transition.
Material choice is vital for a circular economy, cutting carbon and boosting sustainability. Sponsored by Holcim, discover how traceable supply chains and waste reduction drive greener projects and impactful leadership.
Featuring insights from, 540 World, The Concrete Centre, MPA Masonry, MPA Precast, Stone Federation and Useful Simple Trust.
Material choice is vital for a circular economy, cutting carbon and boosting sustainability. Sponsored by Holcim, this seminar stage—featuring insights from Bioregional, ICE, and UKGBC—focuses on selecting sustainable materials for new builds and retrofits. Discover how traceable supply chains and waste reduction drive greener projects and impactful leadership.
The Placemaking programme, addresses all aspects of the built environment beyond buildings. In 2025, the Placemaking Stage will spotlight water management, urban biodiversity, and sustainable transport, offering strategies to create resilient, connected urban spaces. Gain valuable insights to enhance your projects and support vibrant, sustainable communities.
Curated with partners like CIWEM, ICE, Journal Biophilic Design, Green Infrastructure, CIEEM, TDAG, Landscape Institute, Urban Design Group & Sintali.
The Placemaking programme, sponsored by Hahn Plastics, addresses all aspects of the built environment beyond buildings. In 2025, the Placemaking Impact Stage—curated with partners like CIWEM, RSPB, and UKGBC—will spotlight water management, urban biodiversity, and sustainable transport, offering strategies to create resilient, connected urban spaces. Gain valuable insights to enhance your projects and support vibrant, sustainable communities.
FutureX Digital Disruptors, will demonstrate how digital transformation can revolutionise construction through innovation and experimentation. Highlights include nima’s Information Management Initiative, CIOB’s updated Client Guide, and Digital 101 sessions with experts like Mark Enzer OBE and Jamie Johnson MBE. Industry leaders will explore AI-driven design, net-zero strategies, and the circular economy.
FutureX Digital Disruptors, sponsored by One Click LCA, will demonstrate how digital transformation can revolutionise construction through innovation and experimentation. Highlights include nima’s Information Management Initiative, CIOB’s updated Client Guide, and Digital 101 sessions with experts like Mark Enzer OBE and Jamie Johnson MBE. Industry leaders will explore AI-driven design, net-zero strategies, and the circular economy.
On the Zero Waste stage experience inspiring talks from leading voices in circular construction and waste reduction at Futurebuild 2026, where thought leaders share how innovation and collaboration are reshaping the built environment.
Driven by the Government’s Warm Homes Plan and the UK’s accelerating retrofit agenda across both housing and commercial buildings, The National Retrofit Conference, part of Futurebuild 2026 has expanded to better connect you with the insights and practical solutions driving large-scale decarbonisation of UK buildings.
Don’t miss the Big Retrofit Challenge, where innovators will present groundbreaking ideas to solve pressing retrofit challenges. It’s your opportunity to engage with cutting-edge solutions that will redefine the future of retrofit.
In 2025, we celebrate 20 years of Futurebuild with our Impact theme. Over the past two decades, Futurebuild has been at the forefront of driving positive change in the built environment. This milestone year is all about recognising the progress we’ve made and looking ahead to the next wave of innovations that will continue to shape a more sustainable future. Join us to be part of this special celebration and see how far the industry has come—and where it’s heading.
