APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN
Submit a Session for the 2025 Deconstruction + Reuse Conference
Submit your proposal for the premier conference focused on circularity in the built environment.
Build Reuse’s annual Deconstruction + Reuse Conference brings together hundreds of professionals committed to advancing reuse in the building industry. The conference is consistently lauded by our attendees as one of the most inspiring, effective, and solutions-oriented conferences.
Join us in Saint Paul, Minnesota, August 4-6, 2025.
Audience
Attendees represent a cross-section of the building industry, including reuse retailers, contractors, architects, engineers, developers, appraisers, researchers, building owners, policymakers, workforce development entities, preservationists, nonprofits, funders, product manufacturers, and more. To review last year’s speakers and sessions, please visit our 2024 Schedule.
Consideration Process
Please submit a completed proposal form for consideration by March 1, 2025. Conference organizers typically collaborate with selected speakers to refine sessions and may combine proposals, adjust session format, or suggest additional speakers. Due to the volume of applications we receive, we may only respond to the proposals we are interested in scheduling for the conference.
Conference Theme + What We Look For
This year’s theme is bridging the reuse gap: from promise to practice. As embodied carbon and circular economy become ingrained pillars of sustainable building targets, the need to transform goals into action is more pressing than ever. We will prioritize sessions that focus on practical strategies, case studies, and success stories from around the country and the world that can give our audience real blueprints for change.
Examples include (but are certainly not limited to) policy levers, single-building or campus case studies, grassroots advocacy efforts, applied research, innovative technology solutions, and partnership models. We also highly value interdisciplinary sessions that bring together multiple industry actors around a single topic to demonstrate the essential collaborative nature required to advance circularity in practice.