Sustainable Built Environment Conference, Zürich, Switzerland

Overview

Consuming over 40% of total primary energy, the built environment is in the centre of worldwide strategies and measures towards a more sustainable future.
To provide resilient solutions, a simple optimisation of individual technologies will not be sufficient. In contrast, whole-system thinking reveals and exploits connections between parts. Each system interacts with others on different scales (materials, components, buildings, cities) and domains (ecology, economy and social). Whole-system designers optimize the performance of such systems by understanding interconnections and identifying synergies. The more complete the design integration, the better the result.
The conference aims to provide a platform for exchange between researchers and practitioners of the construction sector to foster system thinking in the built environment.

Topics

- Integrated approaches to energy and resource efficiency
- Distributed energy and infrastructure systems for buildings and cities
- Life-cycle oriented building and construction materials
- Practices for interactive user and stakeholder involvement
- Economic models and policy development for fast and appropriate strategy implementation

Key Dates

01.08.2015: Deadline Abstract submission
01.09.2015: Abstract acceptance notification
01.11.2015: Deadline full paper submission
15.01.2016: Result papers' review process
15.02.2016: Implementation of revierers' comments into full papers