Central Europe towards Sustainable Building 2016 Prague (CESB16)

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

Local organizers are Czech Sustainable Building Society (iiSBE Czech) and three institutes of the Czech Technical University in Prague: Faculty of Civil Engineering, Klokner Institute andUniversity Centre for Energy Efficient Buildings (UCEEB).

The CESB conference will span over full three days 22-24 June 2014. The conference opening will start at 22 June at 9:00 and conference closing is expected 24 June 16:00 at latest.

The conference will be hosted by the Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Civil Engineering. The conference venue is located in the university campus in Prague, on the metro station (10 minutes to the Prague center, the main train stations are within 20 minutes range by Metro) and near the Prague Airport (30 minutes by bus). The city of Prague will again provide us a beautiful setting to meet and discuss the next challenges and opportunities of sustainable building.

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, 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 CESB16 conference available at: www.cesb.cz