This year’s version of the annual Greenbuild International Conference and Expo opens Tuesday, November 19, and continues through Friday, November 22, at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia.
Greenbuild is the world’s largest conference and expo for green building professionals worldwide, with a mission statement of helping attendees learn and source cutting-edge solutions to improve resilience, sustainability, and quality of life across buildings, cities, and communities.
Greenbuild Education Tracks
The conference features more than 200 education sessions, tours, workshops, summits, and expo hall educational activities across 13 education tracks. These tracks include the subject areas of building performance; building the business case; data, AI [artificial intelligence], and smart systems for sustainability; U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) people, projects, and performance; and more.
Overall, 82 percent of content within the education program is brand new information that has not been previously presented, according to event organizers.
The keynote address on Wednesday morning, from 8:30 until 10:00 a.m. in Hall B1, features a conversation with former U.S. President Barack Obama. Other marquee events include a Leadership Awards Ceremony for the green building industry, as well as a special Women in Green Power Luncheon.
The complete schedule of events can be obtained at the Greenbuild website.
Exhibitors at the Expo Hall
Meanwhile, more than 300 exhibiting companies are scheduled to showcase their new technologies at the Expo Hall, which features a wide array of products and services for the sustainable building industry. The hall is open from 10:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. local time on Wednesday, and from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Thursday.
For coatings professionals, exhibitors of note may include Tnemec Co., Inc. (booth 1823); Carlisle Construction Materials (booth 1604); GAF (booths 1005, m1443); PROSOCO (booth m1642); STEGO Industries, LLC (booth 1429); Huber Engineered Woods, LLC (booths 717); ThermaCote, Inc. (booth 640); Skanska USA (booth 1304); MAPEI Corp. (booth m1441); UL Environment (booth 1923); Dur-A-Flex, Inc. (booth m1446); Hilti, Inc. (booth 1929); and Leading Edge Safety (booth 1314).
On both days, several exhibitors in the Expo Hall will also present targeted education sessions on the show floor. Sessions potentially of interest to coatings contractors may include those presented by GAF (booth L905); Benjamin Moore & Co. (booth L1111); Huber Engineered Woods (booth L823); and UL Environment (booth L2023).
A full list of exhibitors and education sessions is available at the show website. For more information, contact: Greenbuild International Conference & Expo, (972) 536-6456,
www.greenbuildexpo.com