This is the 7th year of bringing women together to discuss, brainstorm and celebrate women's unique role in the construction industry. Meet more than 200 female executives and managers who will attend from top firms across home building and remodeling.

This year's conference is about the power of transformation as we examine the present—and craft the future—of women in industry.

The conference will provide:

Soheil Shafaei and Amit Varma

S.K. Ghosh

M. Omar Amini, David Bonowitz and Philip Line

Kelly Cobeen

Kelly Cobeen

The built environment is being challenged by many trends and disruptors: digital transformation, off-site manufacturing, sustainability concerns, an aging workforce leading to lack of skilled labor, as well as COVID-19, which is affecting the health, safety, and well-being of workers.

In the upcoming months, the National Institute of Building Science (NIBS) and DHS are offering three (3) one-day virtual training sessions for Assessors on Best Practices for Anti-Terrorism Security (BPATS) Based Assessment Process for Commercial Facilities. These full-day courses will be conducted from 10:00 AM – 4:30 PM EDT.

The annual High Performance Home Summit showcases cutting edge research and best practices of high performance housing. The time to dramatically accelerate the creation of high performance homes is now. EEBA can no longer be satisfied with (only) the dissemination of building science information. Through this Summit, EEBA will educate building professionals, with the goal that they leave our events inspired to effectively build and sell high performance homes at a far greater pace.

Nearly half of the U.S. population (150 million people) reside in portions of 42 states that are at risk of experiencing a damaging earthquake within the next 50 years. That’s according to the NIST-FEMA Special Publication Recommended Options for Improving the Built Environment for Post-Earthquake Reoccupancy and Functional Recovery Time.