Austin Construction & Development Summit

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Kick off your morning at the Austin Architecture & Design Summit where architects and designers share how trends in placemaking, sustainable materials, and user experience are shaping Austin’s projects. These insights directly impact construction and development by driving tenant demand, influencing permitting decisions, and setting the vision that builders bring to life.

Stay for the Construction & Development Summit in the afternoon to tackle costs, labor, delivery, and execution strategies. With the All Access Combo Pass, you’ll get the full picture from concept to completion.

Why You Should Attend The Austin Construction & Development Summit

Why This Matters:

Austin is not just growing, it’s fundamentally transforming. With major corporate expansions, continuous national in-migration, and record-breaking project pipelines, the city sits at the center of the next decade’s most compelling urban development storylines. But rapid growth brings complex challenges: an overburdened permitting system, fierce competition for skilled labor, soaring materials costs, and intense public scrutiny over affordability and sustainability. Understanding how to align strategy, technology, policy, and market realities is critical for anyone building or investing in this high-stakes environment. This event offers an inside look at the real decisions shaping Austin’s future skyline and community fabric, and equips attendees to lead successfully in this evolving landscape.

What You Will Learn:

• How Austin’s explosive population growth (nearly 11% since 2020) is driving unprecedented demand for commercial, multifamily, and mixed-use projects, and what this means for land use, density strategies, and neighborhood dynamics.
• How developers and contractors are managing escalating land costs, material price volatility (especially in steel and concrete), and historically tight labor markets while still meeting ambitious delivery timelines.
• Why Austin’s infrastructure investments, like Project Connect and I-35 expansion, are reshaping development patterns and creating new nodes of opportunity across the metro.
• How firms are integrating cutting-edge construction technology, from mass timber and modular building to AI-driven plan reviews and robotics, to overcome cost and workforce constraints and accelerate project delivery.
• How changes to the regulatory landscape, including long-overdue permitting reforms and contentious zoning debates, are shaping entitlement strategies and determining which projects get greenlit.
• What sustainability and resilience really mean in Austin’s context: from addressing 100-degree heat waves and flash floods to meeting net-zero carbon targets and growing investor ESG expectations.
• Actionable insights from leaders navigating the realities of “boomtown” development pressures while balancing long-term livability, community engagement, and profitability in one of the nation’s most dynamic and competitive markets.

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