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2024 Worldwide Builders’ Present Attracts Largest Attendance in 15 Years

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2024 Worldwide Builders’ Present Attracts Largest Attendance in 15 Years


LAS VEGAS, NV — Greater than 76,000 builders, remodelers, builders and different dwelling constructing professionals stuffed the exhibit halls of the Las Vegas Conference Middle because the Nationwide Affiliation of Residence Builders (NAHB) hosted the eightieth NAHB Worldwide Builders’ Present® (IBS), the most important annual gentle building present on the earth, Feb. 27-29. This milestone attendance, representing greater than 100 international locations and the best stage since 2009, displays the bullish outlook of the residential building trade.

Attendees visited greater than 1,800 exhibitors—together with 800 new exhibitors—over 678,000 internet sq. ft, exploring modern constructing merchandise and expertise to advance the trade and improve new properties. Reflecting the robust progress of the present over its 80-year historical past, the scale of the present flooring elevated almost 12% from the 2023 present. 

Optimistic Suggestions

“The vitality and enthusiasm of attendees on the exhibit flooring matched the optimistic suggestions we obtained from our exhibitors,” stated NAHB Chief Income Officer Geoff Cassidy. “To assist attendees maximize their expertise, we organized this yr’s exhibit flooring into six distinct product segments. Many IBS attendees informed us they needed flooring segmentation, so this was a direct results of us listening to their wants.”
“This has been an awesome present. I can’t consider how many individuals are right here. They’re engaged and enthusiastic about our merchandise,” stated exhibitor Dane Merriman, gross sales supervisor of Schlage.

This yr additionally marked the eleventh anniversary of Design & Building Week® (DCW), the co-location of IBS and the Nationwide Kitchen & Tub Affiliation’s (NKBA’s) Kitchen & Tub Trade Present (KBIS). DCW drew over 117,000 attendees, and greater than 2,400 exhibitors occupied over a million internet sq. ft of indoor and out of doors displays.

Schooling, Networking Alternatives

IBS attendees enhanced their trade data by attending any of greater than 120 schooling classes led by specialists on a variety of trade subjects, together with synthetic intelligence, constructing expertise, analysis and traits. Attendees additionally took benefit of quite a few networking occasions all through week and visited The New American HomeTM that showcased the newest traits and improvements in dwelling constructing.
“The cubicles hold getting larger and [better] every year,” stated Matt Bieschke, companion at Alair Properties in Alexandria, Va. “We solely want we had extra time as a result of there’s simply a lot to see and do. Coming to IBS made it tremendous straightforward for us to have direct entry to fulfill with a wide range of nationwide reps, and all of those face-to-face alternatives are actually necessary to constructing these relationships that profit our enterprise.” 
NAHB and NKBA have introduced an settlement to increase the co-location of IBS and KBIS for 4 years by means of 2030. 

Subsequent yr, DCW will return to Las Vegas, Feb. 25-27.

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