An interdisciplinary platform uniting academics, researchers, technologists and professionals to explore the full lifecycle, from vision to realisation to regeneration, of AI and computational innovation in the Built Environment.
Every project in the Built Environment lives one lifecycle. AECOR names its five chapters, and the green O at its centre is the world all five revolve around. The final letter is the new one: Regeneration closes the line into a loop, because buildings are retrofitted, materials recirculated, and operational data feeds the next generation of design. That loop is exactly what AI makes possible.
Vision, form and human experience, where every lifecycle begins. Urban planning, masterplanning and design intent for the whole Built Environment, not just buildings.
The rationale that makes vision buildable: structures, façades, environmental systems and the computational analysis binding them together.
Realisation: contracting, fabrication, assembly and the digital manufacturing methods that carry a model into the physical world.
The longest chapter: running, sensing and optimising what we build: digital twins, BMS automation and the data a living building generates.
The letter that closes the loop. Retrofit, adaptive reuse, circular materials, and AI learning from the operated building to regenerate the designed one.
Why "Built Environment" and not just AEC? Because governance, urban planning, infrastructure and operation belong in the room too: AECOR widens the audience to everyone who shapes how our civilisation builds.
The streams widen the audience across everyone researching, designing, building, operating and regenerating with computational tools, with AI featured as the main driver augmenting or reinventing every stage.
Machines that perceive, learn, reason and decide.
Rules-based design through algorithms and parameters.
Virtual models that mimic real-world systems.
Digital models automatically feed machines.
Launching with a one-day Seminar in April 2027, AECOR will bring its experience to cities across the globe, connecting the built environment community through keynote presentations, panel discussions, live technology demonstrations, design-team pitches and networking.
Complementing the Seminar, the inaugural Global Summit will take place in London in April 2028. Held every two years, the five-day event will combine four days of hands-on design-and-build workshops with a final day of keynotes, presentations, an exhibition and a gala awards ceremony.
Together, the two formats will inspire innovation, turn ideas into tangible outcomes and connect the global design community through collaboration, immersive experiences and emerging digital technologies.
Seminar 01 · Together, 88 Wood Street, London · 21 April 2027
Global events organiser: coordination, networking, marketing, sales and sponsorships. Their global event, Zak World of Façades, is the world's premier symposium on façade design & engineering.
ZAK WORLD OF FAÇADES · AS OF SEP 2026
Global digitalisation expert providing the platform's intellectual content through its Interdisciplinary Design Research (IDR) team: computational design, AI, BIM, digital twins and fabrication automation.
DREES & SOMMER · GROUP PROFILE
Academia, R&D, architecture and engineering design, contracting, IT, product development and real estate: if you shape the Built Environment, there is a seat with your discipline on it.
One day at Together, 88 Wood Street, London, 21 April 2027: keynotes, panels, design-team pitches and digital exhibition. Then Global Summit 01: five days in London, April 2028, with the live design-and-build workshop and gala awards.
Keynotes, panels and podcast interviews across the four streams.
Form a design team and pitch at the Seminar, then develop it with specialist coaches and build it live at the Summit.
Put your technology, materials and expertise inside the workshop where the industry is watching.
Questions about speaking, sponsorship, attending or anything else about AECOR Digital World? Send us your enquiry and the team will reply by email.
