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Macro Construction and Development Outlook: Building Through Headwinds
Costs, Materials, Labor & Policy—What’s Shaping Project Feasibility in San Francisco
Ken Dupee
Managing Director
TMG Partners
Marc Babsin
President
Emerald Fund
Lauren Krause
VP & Head of Development
Essex Property Trust
Brandon Thrasher
Senior Principal
HLB Lighting Design
Patrick Otellini
National Affordable Housing Director
Swinerton
Michael Muzzy
Partner
Lubin Olson
From Blueprint to Skyline: How Teams Are Delivering and Designing Projects in a Complex Market
How Teams Are Collaborating to Deliver Innovative, Efficient, and Resilient Projects
Bracken Richardson
SVP, Design & Construction
SummerHill Apartment Communities
Matthew Berglund
Director, Design
Presidio Bay
Lisa Vilhauer
VP, Design & Entitlement
ArtHaus Partners
Kris McGee
Principal
Urban Hive Development
Nicholas Johnson
VP
Western Allied Mechanical
Who's Building, What's Breaking Ground: San Francisco's Development Pipeline
Top Projects, Active Neighborhoods & the Design Strategies Shaping What Gets Built
Phoebe Yee
EVP, Design
Related California
What You'll Learn:
What You’ll Learn:
Hear how San Francisco’s top builders are navigating record-high construction costs, the highest in the world, while keeping projects viable through new delivery and financing strategies.
Gain insights into how permitting timelines, local labor mandates, and regulatory headwinds unique to San Francisco are reshaping project feasibility and construction schedules.
Learn how leading teams are managing supply chain volatility, workforce shortages, and fluctuating materials pricing to deliver projects on time and on budget.
Understand how collaborative approaches between design, development, and construction teams are improving efficiency, communication, and cost forecasting across major projects.
Gain insight into which neighborhoods, from SoMa to Mission Bay and the Peninsula, are seeing new construction momentum and what’s driving activity in each submarket.
Examine how new technologies, preconstruction tools, and data-driven project management practices are redefining efficiency, quality, and performance in today’s construction environment.
How You’ll Do More Business: In a market where every basis point, permit delay, and cost escalation matters, success in San Francisco’s construction ecosystem depends on collaboration, innovation, and timing. Gain a clear view of San Francisco’s construction landscape, where deals are happening, how projects are getting built, and what’s driving design and delivery decisions in 2026.
Who You’ll Meet During Networking: Owners, developers, investors, brokers, city and government officials, business consultants, architects, engineers, lawyers, accountants, and bankers.
Why You Should Attend This Session: Bisnow events bring together the biggest power players in the industry to help you identify opportunities, build your network, and expand your business. With the largest audience of commercial real estate professionals in the world, no one knows how to help your business more than we do.
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Agenda
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3:00 PM
4:00 PM
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Breakfast & Networking
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4:00 PM
4:45 PM
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Macro Construction and Development Outlook: Building Through Headwinds
Costs, Materials, Labor & Policy—What’s Shaping Project Feasibility in San Francisco |
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4:45 PM
5:05 PM
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Networking Break
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5:05 PM
5:50 PM
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From Blueprint to Skyline: How Teams Are Delivering and Designing Projects in a Complex Market
How Teams Are Collaborating to Deliver Innovative, Efficient, and Resilient Projects |
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5:50 PM
6:30 PM
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Closing Networking
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