The inaugural GF Move Symposium on Could 3-6, 2026, welcomed 700 attendees on the historic Gaylord Opryland Resort & Conference Middle in Nashville, Tenn. Builders, builders, contractors, engineers, and govt leaders in North America gathered to discover the way forward for movement options throughout residential, industrial, infrastructure, and industrial markets. 

As the primary flagship business occasion hosted by each firm divisions—GF Constructing Move Options, residence of the Uponor model, and GF Trade and Infrastructure Move Options—Move Symposium was designed to tackle real-world challenges and produce forth options that make tasks sooner, smarter, and extra dependable. With greater than two full days of content material, attendees skilled a number of keynote displays and practically 40 breakout classes. The occasion included a Product Showcase the place attendees engaged in hands-on studying and interactive demos for an up-close look on the instruments, programs, and providers shaping the way forward for development, regulation, and constructing programs. 

“One firm isn’t going to single handedly clear up the challenges we face within the constructed setting,” says John Reutter, President, GF Constructing Move Options Americas. “This occasion was about constructing relationships, celebrating innovation, and coming collectively as one to maneuver the business ahead.” 

Featured audio system and matters included:  

• Elliott Eisenberg, Ph.D., of Graphs and Laughs, LLC: 2026 Financial Forecast Enjoyable: An Entertaining Take a look at the Present Economic system and the Affect on Future Enterprise  
• Hosted Panel with Fred Mills of B1M: Megaproject Building Traits: Harnessing Alternatives, Anticipating Challenges, and Maximizing Outcomes  
• Dustin Demetriou, Ph.D.: The Twin Engines Driving the AI Period: Innovation and Impacts of Semiconductors and Information Facilities 
• Panel Dialogue with Senator Joe Manchin: Working Collectively to Construct the Way forward for America: How Authorities, Manufacturing, and Building Partnerships are Propelling Purposeful Progress 
• Catherine Hunt Ryan of Bechtel: Enabling AI Infrastructure 
• Adam Tarr of Hoffman Building: The New Productiveness Paradigm: Offsite Prefabrication with Onsite Building Coordination 
• Michael Beatty of Nalco Water: Sustaining AI Amid Main Challenges: Water Therapy for Information Facilities and Chip Fabrication 

Different session matters included: 

• Contamination of Our Potable Water Provides: What Does Our Future Maintain? 
• Constructing the Workforce of Tomorrow: Tackling Labor Shortages and Retaining Expert Tradespeople 
• Water-Vitality Nexus 101: The Push, Pull, and Interconnectedness of Water and Vitality 
• From South Texas to North Dakota: What a Information Middle Increase Reveals About Our Readiness 
• Offsite Traits: Integrating Kitting and Prefabrication with PEX to Speed up Productiveness and Acquire a Aggressive Benefit 
• Assembly Fashionable Constructing Programs Calls for: Rising Functions for Excessive-Performing Piping Options 
• Defending Cycle Instances Whereas Lowering Danger: Creating Clever Single-Household Plumbing Designs 

“It was our objective to deliver collectively among the greatest minds within the North America development business to collaborate on how the way forward for North America can be constructed,” says James Jackson, Head of Americas, GF Trade & Infrastructure Move Options. “I might say it exceeded our expectations and we’re so proud to have hosted this implausible occasion.”  

Relationship-building was a key element all through the occasion, underscoring the significance of partnering to construct the longer term whereas working throughout complicated stakeholder dynamics. This took form in a wide range of kinds, together with a welcome reception in addition to a product showcase social reception for added perception into the options that may drive long-term worth whereas selling sustainability. Attendees leaned into the spirit of Nashville with a “Hoedown Move Down” closing celebration on the ultimate night time, full with stay music and a wide range of actions. 

“Occasions like this are essential, as development leaders are managing complicated tasks with fewer sources,” says Chris Hartwick, Common Supervisor of Canada, GF Constructing Move Options Americas. “The GF Move Symposium bolstered the ability of connection and provided confirmed real-world examples of how success can be pushed with the proper merchandise and options.” 

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