Pacific Northwest Mass Timber and Prefabrication Conference

Bisnow's Pacific Northwest Mass Timber and Prefabrication Conference is a half-day commercial real estate program for people who finance, design, entitle, and build wood and off-site construction in this region. The 2026 Seattle edition is built around three panels: how to make mass timber projects pencil and scale supply, how prefabrication moves from early jobs into broader delivery, and what building types come after the first showcase towers. Hallway time matters here because owners, lenders, architects, and contractors share one Great Room instead of chasing each other across job sites.

Bisnow is a commercial real estate news and events company, founded in 2005, that runs metro conferences so owners, developers, brokers, and the professional-services stack around them can actually meet. Producer Bora Altunay is the named Seattle contact. The speaker list is the track record: A-P Hurd of SkipStone, who previously led Touchstone in Puget Sound; Erica Spiritos of the Washington Mass Timber Accelerator, the state nonprofit working to speed mass timber adoption; plus Swinerton, WRNS Studio, Mithun, ZGF Architects, Amazon's worldwide sustainability team, and WoodWorks. If you work timber or prefab in the Northwest, these are offices already on live jobs.

This morning is right if you are a Pacific Northwest developer, architect, engineer, prefab operator, lender, or public-sector partner with a real pipeline question: seismic and vibration, code path, schedule risk, or whether a hybrid system can hold a pro forma. Bisnow's own briefing cites a U.S. mass timber construction market of about $390 million in 2025, projected toward $1.07 billion by 2033, which is why the room is talking scale rather than novelty. Skip the badge if you wanted an all-day continuing-education seminar, a consumer housing fair, or a downtown mixer with no project in the room. Bring a live job or capital question so breakfast and the coffee break do the relationship work.

Wednesday, August 26, 2026, at W Seattle, 1112 Fourth Avenue, in the Great Room. Breakfast and networking run 8:00 to 9:00 AM PDT. Panels start at 9:00 AM, with a coffee break, then prefabrication and next-wave timber sessions through late morning. Closing networking is listed through about 12:15 PM. Register on the Bisnow event page. General admission was listed at $129, with inventory-based tiers that rise as tickets sell. Bisnow takes credit cards only.

Confirm the live tier before you pay. They do not honor an older price after a jump. Valet is listed around $30 for up to four hours, with Olympic Garage self-parking as the other option. Downtown morning garage time is real, so leave a buffer if you are coming from the Eastside.