National Brownfields Training Conference 2025
📅 Dates:
Tuesday, August 5 – Thursday, August 7, 2025
📍 Venue:
McCormick Place, Chicago
The Nation’s Premier Event on Brownfields Redevelopment
The National Brownfields Training Conference, often known simply as Brownfields 2025, is the largest gathering in the U.S. dedicated to environmental revitalization and sustainable redevelopment of underused properties. This biannual event brings together thousands of stakeholders — from local governments and community leaders to environmental professionals and real estate developers — all with one goal: turning brownfield sites into thriving assets for their communities.
What to Expect This Year
Whether you’re a first-time attendee or a seasoned professional, Brownfields 2025 delivers practical tools, big ideas, and countless opportunities to connect. Highlights include:
✅ Educational Sessions:
Over 100 sessions and workshops covering policy updates, funding strategies, technical innovations, cleanup best practices, and community engagement.
✅ Marketplace & Expo Hall:
Connect directly with companies offering cleanup technologies, remediation solutions, environmental services, and development expertise.
✅ Mobile Workshops & Field Tours:
See real-world success stories across Chicago’s brownfield sites and learn what’s possible through local partnerships and innovative planning.
✅ Networking & Peer Learning:
Meet EPA officials, city planners, nonprofit leaders, real estate developers, engineers, and grassroots advocates — all working to advance redevelopment goals.
Who Should Attend?
- City and regional planners
- Environmental consultants and engineers
- Elected officials and community developers
- Nonprofit organizations and community advocates
- Real estate professionals
- Students and early-career professionals in environmental fields
How to Register
Registration is now open!
Secure your place early for full access to sessions, mobile workshops, the expo hall, and networking events.
👉 Register for Brownfields 2025
Discounted rates are available for local governments, community organizations, and students. Be sure to check early-bird deadlines to save on your pass.
Why It Matters
Brownfields 2025 is more than a conference — it’s a catalyst for transforming abandoned properties into economic engines and healthy spaces for communities to thrive. By attending, you’ll gain the tools, partnerships, and inspiration to lead successful redevelopment projects in your city or town.
Make Your Community Part of the Change
Join thousands of changemakers at McCormick Place in Chicago this August and help write the next chapter of sustainable redevelopment across America. Let’s clean up, rebuild, and revitalize together.
