2025 is Your Year to Speak at BES - Submit your abstract today

Submit Your Abstract for Presentation at the 2025 IIBEC Building Enclosure Symposium (BES)!

Now accepting submissions through January 17, 2025.

The 2025 IIBEC BES will take place at the St. Louis Union Station Hotel, St. Louis Missouri, October 26-28, 2025. BES will be a live, interactive experience convening the best experts in building enclosure industry, with a welcome reception on October 26, a two-day educational program comprising more than 15 unique, cutting-edge presentations on the design, construction, maintenance, and repair of modern and/or older building enclosures.

Will you be one of the presenters? IIBEC is seeking technical articles and presentations for consideration. Put your skills, knowledge, and talent to work for your profession!
Submit Your Abstract Here

Guidelines For Abstract Submissions:

Abstract submission should be a concise proposal of new information that is technically sound and credible, and include the following:

• Primary issue being addressed.
• Type and basis of the new information that will be contributed to the industry (e.g., research conducted, personal experience).
• Intended primary audience concise statement describing the new information and how the information will be useful to the primary audience.

Topics for consideration include:

• Building Enclosure Commissioning
• Cladding (masonry, facades, metal, stucco, stone)
• Code issues
• Codes, standards, specification and testing of materials and assemblies
• Construction processes, contract administration and case studies
• Durability, resiliency and sustainability
• Emerging technology
• Fenestration (curtain walls, glass)
• Innovative/Unique edge building enclosure design
• Moisture and thermal analyses
• Professional and business management topics
• Restoration
• Roofing
• Sealants and coatings…as well as any other topics that may be interesting to present

Submit Your Abstract Here