Mr. Chris Bishop

This session brings together industry leaders to explore breakthrough construction methods that improve traditional practices and deliver sustainable results. Top-down construction streamlines the building process by creating a production-like atmosphere on-site, enabling rapid floorplate manufacturing, shortening construction timelines, and lowering costs and carbon. Complementing this approach, nano-modified concrete offers increased strength, faster curing times, and reduction of water and cement usage—cutting material costs while significantly lowering embodied carbon. Taken together, by reducing construction costs by roughly 30 percent, top-down and nano-modified concrete enable many projects to pencil out as financially viable projects that otherwise would not have done so—benefitting all real estate product types and holding particular potential to increase the supply of housing. Attendees may wish to review their projects that did not pencil before and see if these two techniques make them pencil now.