Forum for low-emission building materials

The inaugural Build Well Symposium is to be held in Sausalito (just north of San Francisco), United States, from 27 to 30 January 2010.

The three-day symposium will include peer-to-peer presentations and roundtable discussions in a secluded retreat center.  Participants will include green materials experts, inventors, industry leaders, researchers, policy makers, and investors. There will be ongoing posters and displays of emerging products, and sessions to focus on identifying, developing and bringing products to market. The symposium will also launch the Build Well Institute, a center of research and development of green building materials.

Build Well is a forum for exploration and discovery among inventors of the new green economy — an idea party for collaboration, cross-pollination, and acceleration. It is also where good ideas can meet the entrepreneurs and investors who will get them to market, the builders, architects and engineers who will use them, and the policy makers who need to pave the way. For more information, visit www.ecobuildnetwork.org/symposium.