Central Europe towards Sustainable Building 2016
CESB16
Central Europe towards Sustainable Building 2016
Innovations for Sustainable Future
22–24th June 2016, Prague /// www.cesb.cz
Czech Technical University in Prague and Czech Sustainable Building Society are pleased to announce that the 4th issue of CESB conferences will be held on June 22-24, 2016 in Prague, Czech Republic. The CESB16 objective is to present current activities in sustainable building in the Central Europe and to bring ideas and international expertise to the region in order to contribute to further development. The conference is organized under auspices of international conveners CIB, iiSBE, UNEP-SBCI and FIDIC and belongs to Sustainable Built Environment regional conference series leading towards World Conference SBE17 Hong Kong. CESB16 will contribute to UNEP 10YFP Sustainable Building and Construction Programme.
Conference topics
- Sustainable renovation of existing building stock
Examples of sustainable modernizations and refurbishments of existing buildings and districts, modular retrofitting solutions - Industrial heritage regeneration
Industrial heritage in urban context, adaptive reuse, industrial heritage tourism, regeneration initializing activities - Sustainable urban development
Urban regeneration and development strategies, special planning tools and methods - Building design process
Design strategies, design optimization tools, examples of utilisation of integrated design - Low-tech and high-tech materials and technologies for
sustainable buildings
Sustainable production and use of building materials, integration of new technologies improving sustainability of buildings - Decision-support tools and assessment methods
Building sustainability assessment methods, benchmarking and regional aspects, life cycle costing - Education and research for sustainable building
Implementation of sustainable building principles into curricula at various levels (bachelor, master, doctoral studies), organization and facility for research, lifetime education, public awareness and dissemination
Submission of abstracts
Abstracts of 150–250 words in English shall be submitted through www.cesb.cz by 15 August 2015.All papers accepted by the Scientific Committee and presented at the Conference in oral or poster form will be published in printed book of proceedings. Oral and poster presentations shall be in English. All published papers are going to be submitted for indexing in Scopus and Web of Science databases, similarly to previous CESB proceedings.