Vancouver Convention Centre West
BUILDEX Vancouver is Western Canada’s largest business to business forum connecting the holistic building industry. This is your opportunity to experience the dynamism, progress and innovations at the forefront of Canada’s built environment.
BUILDEX Vancouver 2024 - Relive the Moments
Relive the excitement of BUILDEX Vancouver 2024, where we celebrated 35 years of connecting Western Canada's built environment! Take a glimpse into our overview video capturing the essence of the event. Experience the event all over again.
BUILDEX Vancouver 2024 By the Numbers
2
Days
8000+
Participants
330+
Exhibitors
43
Sponsors
200+
Industry Speakers & Panelists
90+
Educational Seminars & Workshops
NEW June Webinar
Thursday, June 13th, 12:00pm PT
BUILDEX Connects is excited to present our upcoming webinar taking place Thursday, June 13th, from 12:00pm-1:00pm PT, 1:00pm-2:00pm MT, titled Optimizing Inclusive Design for a Neurodiverse Workplace.
An estimated 15-20% of the global population exhibits some form of neurodivergence. The prevalence of neurodiversity is only expected to rise, making it critical to understand how our workplaces could be more inclusive of those who are neurodivergent. Neurodivergent employees represent a significant and largely untapped talent pool, often bringing highly valuable skill sets to the workplace in areas such as innovative problem solving, analytical thinking, and attention to detail. However, the typical workplace can get in the way of allowing those strengths to thrive and often amplifies challenges for those who are neurodivergent.
Speakers
Meaghan Beever, Senior Strategist, Gensler
Kirima Isler, Strategist, Gensler
BUILDEX On-Demand
Watch select educational sessions and product demonstrations recorded at BUILDEX Vancouver 2024 on-demand after the show. Plus, passholders will also be able to view a range of video content from the Buildings Canada portfolio of events. All-Access Passholders, as well as BUILDEX On-Demand passholders must have received login details.
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Property Management: Now & In the Future
The outlook for the property management industry is positive for the foreseeable future. Developers in Canada are building new apartments and condos at historically high rates. According to the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, (CMHC) apartment construction – whether purpose-built rental or condominiums – continued to grow in importance across Canada’s 6 largest centres. However, this shift towards rental properties and condos has revealed a critical shortage in qualified property managers who can handle the increased work load. Industry professionals and associations are now warning of a “property management crises” in Canada. In its latest whitepaper, Buildings Canada is exploring what the property management landscape looks like today, and what the future holds for the profession.
Now Booking for 2025
BC’s building industry is currently tackling significant challenges and opportunities: Increasing building performance, reducing embodied carbon, improving individual and community wellbeing, delivering affordable housing, and solving a construction workforce crisis.
90% of the BUILDEX audience plays an active role in the purchasing of new products or services. Contact us now for exhibition and sponsorship opportunities.
What to Expect
Learn
An extensive educational program offers sessions of interest to a range of professionals and provides technical updates relevant to Western Canada's most active development hubs!
Source
Companies at the cutting edge of innovation will showcase their latest products and services that are transforming our industry, alongside established market brands and products.
Exhibit
Connect with your clients across the building industry with unparalleled opportunities to showcase your products and grow your business.
Earn Continuing Education Credits
Select seminars and workshops from across the BUILDEX educational conference program are accredited for continuing education credits by AIBC, IDCEC, BC Housing and BOMI.
Trending Industry News
Canada wants to build millions of homes. But does B.C. have the workforce to do it?
Simon Little & Richard Zussman, Global News, April 17, 2024
Canada’s latest federal budget is betting big on a housing boom, but some in B.C.’s construction industry say a labour shortage could make Ottawa’s housing goals “meaningless.”
Tuesday’s budget sets a target of building 3.87 million new homes by 2031, backed by $8.5 billion in spending on housing initiatives and $55 billion in construction loans modelled off British Columbia’s BC Builds program. “We now have a plan that’s going to get four million homes across the country built by 2031. That is going to make a huge, huge difference,” Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland told Global News.
Building those homes, however, will require thousands of skilled trades workers, and some in the industry say the bodies simply aren’t there.
BCCA report highlights labour and payment woes
BC Construction Association, April 16, 2024
Statistics reported in the Spring 2024 BC Construction Association (BCCA) Construction Industry Stat Pack and BCCA’s annual BC Construction Industry Survey Report show that while workforce numbers have improved over the past five years, it may not be enough for employers in BC’s construction industry who continue to face extreme pressures. This year’s industry survey report includes our bi-annual wages and salaries analysis, with highly favourable indicators for those considering a career in BC’s construction industry, but areas of concern for those who employ them.
Demand for construction remains high in British Columbia, with major projects currently underway at an estimated value of $160B, an increase of $3B over the past six months. This represents an increase of 39% over the past five years. However, at $170B, the estimated value of proposed major projects remains at lower levels than in Spring 2023, when proposed projects were valued at $221B.
Dylan Kruger: Cities are being asked to do more with less — an impossible task
Dylan Kruger, Vancouver Sun, March 12, 2024
The federal government’s Housing Accelerator Fund showed promise, but seven cities in Metro Vancouver have had their applications denied.
Canada needs more homes. That point is now painfully obvious and, thankfully, supported by all major political parties. Supply is the answer, and lots of it. In fact, according to expert studies, Canada must build 3.5 million additional homes by the year 2030. Unsurprisingly, we are nowhere close to hitting this target.
While a plethora of other policies aimed at addressing the housing crisis have failed over the last decade, the federal government’s housing accelerator fund initially showed promise. Unlike previous ideas that attempted to suppress demand for new home ownership, the fund aims to incentivize local governments to do more to approve desperately needed new homes.
City of Vancouver lawsuit claims faulty Granville Bridge work poses ‘substantial danger’
Elizabeth McSheffrey, Global News, Feb 20, 2024
The City of Vancouver is suing three companies it hired to do major rehabilitation work to the Granville Bridge, alleging the final product includes “defects” or deficiencies” that “pose a real and substantial danger” to users. A civil claim filed in B.C. Supreme Court this month names Associated Engineering (B.C.) Ltd., Graham Infrastructure LP and Ross Rex Industrial Painters Ltd. as defendants.
Global News has reached out to each comment on this story, with Associated Engineering stating it’s “investigating” the issues raised. According to the civil claim, work on the Granville Bridge between 2019 and 2021 included the replacement of select expansion joints connecting segments of the bridge, the installation of rubber troughs and the recoating of structure steel members underneath certain expansion joints.
BC Builds will deliver more lower-cost, middle-income rental homes faster
Jimmy Smith, BC Gov News, Feb 13, 2024
The Province has launched BC Builds to lower construction costs, speed up timelines, and deliver more homes that middle-income people who live and work in B.C. can afford.
BC Builds is a new initiative that leverages government, community and non-profit owned and underused land with $2 billion in low-cost financing and a commitment of $950 million for the overall program. “Anyone looking for a place to live knows how hard it is – even if you make a decent salary there are not enough rental homes people can afford,” said Premier David Eby. “The private sector alone has not been able to deliver the homes middle-class people in B.C. need. That’s why we’re taking action through BC Builds to deliver lower-cost middle-income homes, faster, so the people who keep our communities working – like teachers, nurses, and construction workers – can find homes they can afford in the communities they love.”
New downtown Vancouver office tower having difficulty keeping tenants
Joanne Lee-Young, Vancouver Sun, Feb 13, 2024
Comparable new buildings in the neighbourhood are mostly occupied except for a few of the lower floors.
The Vancouver Centre II office tower officially opened a year ago, but it has been one step forward, one step back in terms of filling its floors, according to local commercial real estate agents.They say it is surprising that GWL Realty Advisors’ 33-storey AAA office building at 733 Seymour St. in downtown Vancouver isn’t finding success with tenants. “If you look at other new builds, it’s fair to say they’ve been more successful,” says Vancouver-based Ross Moore, a managing broker at real estate company Cresa, which advises companies on leases. He hasn’t done a deal in the building at 733 Seymour, but says that comparable new buildings such as Oxford Properties’ The Stack, a 37-storey tower on Melville Street, are occupied except for a few of the lower floors.
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We acknowledge that BUILDEX Vancouver takes place on the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
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