The construction technology calendar gains another fixture in spring 2027, with BuildTech Week heading to Berlin on 6 and 7 April for the fifth edition of the World Conference on Construction & Building Technology.
Staged by People Events, the two-day gathering runs under the theme “Future Built: Smart, Sustainable and Technology-Driven Environments”, and it’s pitched at the people who decide how buildings and cities actually get delivered, namely architects, developers, contractors, urban planners and the technology firms feeding into them. Previous outings in Madrid and London drew speakers from the likes of Grimshaw, WSP and Ibstock Futures, and the Berlin programme is shaping up along similar lines, with keynotes, expert panels and structured networking built around digital construction, smart infrastructure and sustainable development.
What sets the agenda apart from the usual trade-show fare is its tilt towards the harder edges of the digital shift, from artificial intelligence and building information modelling through to digital twins, PropTech and the industrialised, modular methods that keep cropping up in the event’s past feedback.
For contractors and investors weighing where to put their money next, the draw is less about product launches and more about reading the direction of travel, picking up real-world case studies and meeting the decision-makers driving Europe’s pipeline. Highways.Today is among the event’s media partners, and the Berlin edition looks well placed to pull together the smart-building, infrastructure and sustainability conversations that have been running in parallel across the sector.