Who’s in the Room at the Build Small Summit?
Join in on the networking opportunities at Build Small Live Large 2019. Meet colleagues, companies that are hiring, and even a builder or designer for your next big project.
A Focus on Building Better Housing
At Build Small Live Large 2019, the only national housing summit of its kind, the line-up of speakers includes innovators working to change regulations, address infill needs, create smaller footprint communities, design more accessible spaces, and lead the way towards more affordable homes.
ADU Developments, Historic Bus Tour at Summit
2019 Summit Offers Certification Maintenance Credits
Kicking off 2019 Build Small Summit
This year’s Build Small Live Large Summit focuses on what communities across North America are doing to create more livable cities full of smaller, more diverse, and affordable homes.
How to Stay Involved with the Small House Movement!
Five hundred designers, builders, planners, realtors, students and homeowners gathered in early November to learn how powerful and important it is to build small. The day was packed with people looking for new ideas for homes that match the needs of our current population: homes that can be flexible as families grow and change, homes that allow new ways to live together in communities of all sizes, and homes that are safe, legal and affordable. Here's how to keep that momentum going.
Introducing Keynote Speaker Alan Durning
Alan Durning, a long-time sustainability leader in the Northwest, is newly fired up—and for good reason. Since founding Sightline Institute in 1993, he has written more than ten books on issues that connect sustainability to home, transportation and city design, and he has even lectured at The White House. But Alan’s recent work on a Seattle housing and livability committee convened by the mayor is particularly timely as Northwest cities like Seattle and Portland enter development booms. And one of his key messages is that building small is one of the best ways to create affordable, livable housing in the cities we love.