Education Buildings Ireland returns to RDS Dublin for a two day conference and exhibition in Hall 2, bringing together the people who design, fund, build and run the country's schools, colleges and training facilities.
The event runs on 11 and 12 November. The year is 2026.
The programme is organised as a multi stream conference with continuing professional development accreditation, sitting alongside a free exhibition. It covers recent policy and completed projects, shared practice between institutions, and the supplier market that serves them. Public sector delegates attend without charge, while private sector delegates buy a one day or two day pass, a structure that is designed to put the client side and the supply side in the same room.
The subject is more commercially significant than the title suggests. Ireland's education estate is in the middle of a sustained capital programme covering new school builds, campus expansion and the retrofitting of older stock to meet energy performance targets. That work is procured in a market where construction cost inflation, planning timelines and the availability of specialist contractors all bear directly on whether a project is delivered to budget, and those constraints are what the conference agenda tends to circle.
There is a second question underneath it. A learning environment is judged on acoustics, air quality, daylight, flexibility and running cost rather than on floor area alone, and the evidence linking those conditions to attainment has become firm enough that it now shapes design briefs. The conference exists largely to move that evidence from research into procurement documents.
RDS Dublin hosts the event at its Ballsbridge campus, where it is run in partnership with the Government of Ireland.
