With the rapid advancement of urban renewal, the focus of China's modernization has gradually shifted to cultivating new quality productive forces, committed to promoting the transformation and upgrading of smart construction industrial parks toward “digitalization, efficiency, low-carbonization, and sharing.” The emergence of this new concept of new quality productive forces has injected fresh characteristics into shaping urban spatial quality. By employing a difference-in-differences model to conduct comparative analysis of relevant data between 25 smart construction pilot cities and 25 non-pilot cities in China from 2019 to 2024, the study found that the total factor productivity of the construction industry played a significant positive role in the application of smart construction. It further explored the profound impact of new quality productive forces on urban renewal under the context of smart construction, effectively fostering the vigorous development and comprehensive enhancement of new quality productive forces in the construction industry.