Greater than 81,000 builders, remodelers, builders and different residence constructing professionals crammed the exhibit halls of the Las Vegas Conference Heart because the Nationwide Affiliation of House Builders (NAHB) hosted the 81st NAHB Worldwide Builders’ Present® (IBS), the most important annual mild development present on the planet, Feb. 25-27. This marks the most important present in 17 years.
Attendees visited greater than 1,800 exhibitors – together with 750 new exhibitors – over 728,000 web sq. ft, exploring modern constructing merchandise and expertise to advance the trade and improve new houses.
“This yr’s present surpassed our excessive expectations for attendance, exhibit house and academic alternatives,” stated NAHB Chief Income Officer Geoff Cassidy. “Attendees noticed the newest traits in residence expertise and resilience, and the newest developments in constructing methods.”
“There are much more individuals right here this yr, and so they actually did a great job of organizing like-vendors collectively to make it simpler to take a look at the identical sort of merchandise,” stated Josh Deal, a house builder at JNJ Enterprises in McKinney, Texas.
“Site visitors has been unbelievable. We’re having nice conversations, and everybody’s been tremendous engaged,” famous Sarah Caperton, director of siding innovation and commercialization at LP Constructing Merchandise.
DCW 2025 By-the-Numbers
- Over 124,000 DCW registered guests
- Greater than 2,500 exhibitors
- Over 1.2 million web sq. ft of exhibit house
KBIS 2025 By-the-Numbers
- Over 43,000 KBIS registered guests
- Almost 700 KBIS exhibitors
- Greater than 500,000 web sq. ft of exhibit house
- Over 150 first-time exhibitors
- Almost 270 worldwide exhibitors
This yr additionally marked the twelfth anniversary of Design & Development Week® (DCW), the co-location of IBS and the Nationwide Kitchen & Bathtub Affiliation’s Kitchen & Bathtub Trade Present. DCW drew over 124,000 attendees, and practically 2,500 exhibitors occupied over 1.2 million web sq. ft of indoor and outside displays.
IBS attendees enhanced their trade data by attending any of greater than 120 training periods led by consultants on a variety of trade subjects, together with synthetic intelligence, constructing expertise, analysis and traits. Two demo zones featured dwell demonstrations of trending subjects in residential development, permitting constructing professionals to study finest practices for constructing extra sturdy, environment friendly, higher-quality houses.
Attendees additionally took benefit of quite a few networking occasions all through the week and visited The New American House™ that showcased cutting-edge constructing methods, high-performance design, and the newest merchandise and traits.
“There was a lot to see and do, however the training was particularly useful. Every session had a number of actually good nuggets of knowledge which you could take and apply to completely different markets,” stated first-time IBS attendee Ryan Darmetko, gross sales supervisor at Eastwood Houses in Charlotte, N.C. “We knew the present was going to be massive and busy, but it surely was all very nicely organized and 100% definitely worth the funding of coming.”
Subsequent yr, DCW will happen in Orlando, Feb. 17-19. Be taught extra in regards to the present at www.BuildersShow.com.