Summer Lab Reports | Field Notes | PHA Live!

This summer, small groups of practitioners gathered in Reimagine Buildings Summer Labs to tackle some of the biggest questions facing high-performance building today. From planning for survivability in extreme conditions to scaling fire resilience, nature-based materials, and the role of AI in design, these peer-to-peer conversations dug deep into emerging challenges and opportunities. Now it’s time to open the doors and share what they’ve been working on. In this special session—Field Notes: Summer Lab Report—each Lab presents its top takeaways from the summer. You’ll hear directly from practitioners who have spent the season debating, testing, and learning together, and come away with practice-based insights you can apply to your own work.

What you’ll learn in this session:

-Get a front-row seat to the conversations practitioners have been having all summer

-Dive deeper into critical topics like survivability, AI, selling, and natural materials

-Take away fresh, field-tested ideas you won’t find anywhere else Join the conversation and connect with the people experimenting at the edge of practice.