“Central Europe towards Sustainable Building Prague 2016”, 22 – 24 June 2016, Prague

CESB16 will be the fourth conference in a row to be held in Prague on the actual topic of sustainable building. The Central Europe towards Sustainable Building Prague 2016 (CESB16) event is a part of the 2016 international Sustainable Built Environment conference series convened under auspices of the four international organizations: iiSBE, CIB, UNEP-SBCI and FIDIC.

The topics for this year conference are as following:

• 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, spatial planning tools and methods
• Building design process – Design strategies for energy efficient and environmentally friendly buildings, design optimization tools, examples of utilisation of integrated design
• Materials and technologies for sustainable buildings – Low-tech and high-tech materials, 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, social, economic and environmental indicators of built environment, life cycle costing
• Sustainable building in education – Implementation of sustainable building principles into curricula at various levels, lifetime education, public awareness and dissemination

More information on the conference is available on its website: http://www.cesb.cz