Last conference Central Europe towards Sustainable Building Prague 2007 took place in September 2007 having over 180 attendees from 22 countries all around the world. The event has been according to the international reactions very fruitful. The organizers obtained official letter of gratitude from UNEP.

Keynote adresses

• Sustainable issues facing the building sector
  Nils Larsson (iiSBE)
  
  
• Rating systems in the public and financial sectors
  Andrea Moro, Adriano Bellone, Giuseppe Piccoli (Italy)
  
  
• Sustainability assessment and/or property rating?
  Thomas Lützkendorf, David Lorenz (Germany)
  
  
• Sustainable building in the Czech Republic – Challenge and opportunity
  Petr Hájek, Jan Tywoniak (Czech Republic)
  
  
• Ultra-high-performance concrete: Basis for sustainable structures
  Michael Schmidt, Thomas Teichmann (Germany)
  
  
• Building with earth - 30 years of research and development at the University of Kassel
  Gernot Minke (Germany)

Economy, policy and legislation

• Resource conservation in existing commercial office buildings
  John B. Storey (New Zealand)
  
  
• Cost planning for renewal and maintenance over the building life cycle
  Jaroslava Tománková (Czech Republic)
  
  
• I-divergence function in project evaluation
  Václav Beran, Petr Dlask (Czech Republic)
  
  
• Strategy for sustainable development in the building sector of Russia, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine
  Yurij A. Matrosov (Russia)
  
  
• Building's value assessment using the utility and the LCC
  Renáta Schneiderová Heralová (Czech Republic)
  
  
• The verification of high performance buildings in North America
  Jiří Skopek (Canada)
  
  
• Questionnaire survey of environmental attitudes, management and performance of Swedish architects and technical consultants
  Liane Thuvander, Birgit Brunklaus, Pernilla Gluch, Karin Johansson, Örjan Lundberg, Ann-Charlotte Stenberg (Sweden)
  
  
• Bottom-up or top-down instruments for more sustainable buildings?
  Susanne Geissler (Austria)
  
  
• One m2 infrastructure for one m2 floor space?!
  Clemens Deilmann, Karin Gruhler, Jörg Hennersdorf (Germany)
  
  
• Immo-rate: Guide for the property rating of sustainable buildings
  Robert Lechner (Austria)

Assesement methods

• LEnSE methodology for sustainability assessment of buildings
  Katrien Putzeys, Johan Van Dessel (Belgium)
  
  
• Life cycle assessment – The first step towards sustainability
  Timothy Cole (USA)
  
  
• Enviromental assessment of a low-energy house
  Roman Rabenseifer (Slovakia)
  
  
• Implementation of SBTool in the Czech Republic – Case studies
  Martin Vonka, Antonín Lupíšek, Luděk Vochoč, Vladimír Žďára (Czech Republic)
  
  
• Aiming at sustainability by use of life cycle cost assessment in decision making in planning and design of new buildings and in refurbishment
  Guri Krigsvoll (Norway), Pavel Frolka (Czech Republic)
  
  
• The critical role of process in developing a green building rating system: The LEED for homes experience
  Ann V. Edminster (USA)
  
  
• Contribution of innovation technology to sustainable construction
  Jacopo Gaspari, Maria Antonia Barucco (Italy)
  
  
• Designing and building green in Australia and the case of Centralplaza
  Steve Burroughs (Australia)
  
  
• Regional strategies for the development of sustainable building
  Adriano Bellone, Giuseppe Piccoli, Andrea Moro (Italy)
  
  
• Environmental and life cycle assessment of structural design of residential house-case study
  Jan Růžička, Ctislav Fiala, Antonín Lupíšek, Jan Mukařovský, Martin Vonka (Czech Republic)
  
  
• Four brick passive houses with "TOTAL QUALITY" certification
  Gerhard Koch (Austria)
  
  
• Influence of wear on building – lifetime
  Václav Kupilík (Czech Republic)

Assesement methods - posters

• Qualitative and quantitative assessment of sustainable urban neighbourhoods
  Jana Zdráhalová (Czech Republic)

Education and information

• Becoming sustainable: Learning in demonstration projects
  Barbara Rubino (Sweden)
  
  
• Thermomodernisation of public buildings conducted in accordance with conditions of sustainable development – STEP
  Aleksander Panek, Jerzy Sowa (Poland)
  
  
• Data base of planning know how for passive houses
  Tania Berger (Austria)
  
  
• Training for renovated energy efficient social housing
  Bruno Peuportier (France), Uli Neumann (Germany), Jan-Olof Dalenback (Sweden), Arne Nesje (Norway), Tamas Csoknyai (Hungary), Chiel Boonstra (The Netherlands)
  
  
• Prediction of a building energy conservation market
  Dalibor Vytlačil (Czech Republic)
  
  
• Postgraduate course "Sustainable construction" at Graz University of Technology
  Peter Maydl, Karin Pregartner (Austria)
  
  
• Postgraduate education in building science at Danube University Krems
  Peter Holzer, Renate Hammer (Austria)
  
  
• Sustainable building education at Faculty of Civil Engineering CTU in Prague
  Karel Kabele, Jiří Novák, Jan Tywoniak, Petr Hájek (Czech Republic)
  
  
• Holistic system of SB education in Building University in Moscow
  Alexander Tetior (Russia)

Building design

• Energy efficiency in commercial buildings
  Günter Löhnert, Sebastian Herkel, Karsten Voss, Andreas Wagner (Germany)
  
  
• Energy, technology and social context
  Joseph Cory (Israel)
  
  
• Building of ecological education centre Slunakov
  Ondřej Hofmeister, Pavel Kopecký, Jan Tywoniak (Czech Republic)
  
  
• Simplified method of designing an air-ground heat exchange
  Szymon Firlag, Joanna Rucińska (Poland)
  
  
• Design of net zero energy housing
  Vera Straka, Mark Gorgolewski (Canada)
  
  
• Thürnlhofstrasse/Rochègasse/Trepulkagasse – Vienna 11th district – An example for sustainable building process
  Georg W. Reinberg (Austria)
  
  
• Sustainability of olympic buildings – Guidelines for sustainable architecture of mega-sporting events
  Natalie C. Eßig (Germany)
  
  
• Passive house technology for multiple-unit houses in Vienna and Lower Austria
  Martin Treberspurg, Ulla Ertl (Austria)
  
  
• Lessons in building in a sustainable manner in a developing country: The habitat research and development centre, Namibia
  Jacques Korrubel (Namibia)
  
  
• How potential builders are testing passive houses
  Helmut Bruckner (Austria)
  
  
• Parametric design strategy aiming at environmentally sustainable residential buildings
  Hanne Tine Ring Hansen, Mary-Ann Knudstrup, Per Heiselberg (Denmark)
  
  
• Solar systems for passive buildings – General approach and examples
  Jan Tywoniak, Kamil Staněk, Marek Ženka, Petr Morávek (Czech Republic)
  
  
• 100% solar heated monolithic clay bloc house
  Georg Dasch, Katharina Liepach (Germany)
  
  
• Retrofit buildings close to passive house standard
  Karl Viridén (Switzerland)
  
  
• Environmentally based optimization of RC slab floor structures
  Ctislav Fiala, Petr Hájek (Czech Republic)
  
  
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• Material substance of contemporary industrial architecture
  Ján Ilkovič, Ľubica Ilkovičová (Slovakia)
  
  
• Durability, reliability, sustainability and client's decision
  Břetislav Teplý (Czech Republic)

Internal environment

• Modelling of indoor environment quality in sustainable building
  Karel Kabele, Pavla Dvořáková (Czech Republic)
  
  
• Physical cavity of a double-skin facade – Experiment in-situ
  Milan Bielek, Boris Bielek, Daniel Szabó (Slovakia)
  
  
• The influence of windscreen on wind flow
  Katarzyna Klemm (Poland)
  
  
• Solar and daylight rights in concept of performance based buildings
  Jozef Hraška (Slovakia)
  
  
• Acoustic aspects of sustainable building
  Pavel Oravec, Michaela Kozáková (Czech Republic)

Internal environment - posters

• Sustainable greenery as an insulate rooftop in municipal buildings, also playing in municipal gardens
  Sergi Lopez-Grado i Padreny, Ana Maria Prados Fernández (Spain)
  
  
• Floorings in buildings from lifetime point of view
  Věra Suchá (Czech Republic)

External environment

• Sustainable buildings in interaction
  Morten Elle (Denmark)
  
  
• Effects of future city developments – Development scenarios of municipalities
  Karin Gruhler, Clemens Deilmann (Germany)
  
  
• Sustainable urban development strategies for the provision of low-income housing in Pakistan
  Muhammad Ali Tirmizi (Pakistan)
  
  
• Tectonic landscapes
  Boguslaw F. Witkowski (Belgium)
  
  
• Display of commercial activity in architecture of industrial buildings
  Ľubica Ilkovičová, Ján Ilkovič (Slovakia)
  
  
• Study on the building conversion for temporary use by public sector
  Toru Eguchi, Shuichi Matsumura, Makoto Tsunoda, Akiko Inagawa, Ryunosuke Mitate (Japan)
  
  
• Deep ecologization as topical basis of ecological construction
  Alexander Tetior (Russia)
  
  
• Influence of urban structure on microclimatic conditions in virtual residential districts
  Katarzyna Klemm (Poland)
  
  
• ENERPOS: A French research program for developing new methods for the design of zero energy buildings in hot climates
  François Garde, Alain Bastide, Etienne Wurtz, Françoise Thellier, Gilbert Achard, Oana Dobre, Eric Ottenwelter, Alain Bornarel (France)

Energy

• Energy and environmental audit for sustainable buildings
  Dušan Petráš (Slovakia)
  
  
• Zero-energy/emission-buildings – Terms, definitions and building practice
  Karsten Voss, Miriam Kramp (Germany)
  
  
• Low energy and smart buildings – Analysis of energy consumption in the all life cycle of buildings
  Małgorzata Fedorczak-Cisak, Antoni Stachowicz (Poland)
  
  
• Barriers for progress of low-energy construction
  František Macholda (Czech Republic)
  
  
• Glazed facades and their influence on indoor climate in buildings
  Michal Jaroš, Jitka Mohelníková, Dalibor Plšek (Czech Republic)
  
  
• Environmental payback of stone wool in a societal energy perspective
  Anders Ulf Clausen (Denmark)
  
  
• Influence of micrometeorological conditions in a street canyon on energy characteristic of a building
  Marcin Idczak (Poland)
  
  
• Experimental examination of energy and micro-climate properties in two low-energy buildings
  František Kulhánek (Czech Republic)
  
  
• Comparison of TRYs for Bratislava
  Roman Rabenseifer (Slovakia), Geoff Levermore (UK), Sabine Hoffmann (Germany)
  
  
• Slab cooling system design using computer simulation
  Miloš Lain, František Drkal, Vladimír Zmrhal (Czech Republic), Jan Hensen (The Netherlands)
  
  
• In search of equilibrum in Canadian housing
  Woytek Kujawski (Canada)
  
  
• Heat storage for energy demand reduction in low-energy buildings
  Milan Ostrý (Czech Republic)
  
  
• Connection of solar and near-surface geothermal energy in ISOMAX technology
  Edmond Krecke (Luxemburg), Roman Ulbrich, Grzegorz Radlak (Poland)
  
  
• Energy balance of windows, solar gains and losses in passive house
  Miloš Kalousek, Pavel Kúdela (Czech Republic)
  
  
• Guidlines on supplementary lighting related to the total daylightindex (TDI)
  Dariusz Heim, Eliza Szczepańska (Poland)

Energy - posters

• Reference building physical model of panel system T06B
  Roman Rabenseifer (Slovakia)
  
  
• Use of water power – Small water power plant in Liběchov
  Ladislav Satrapa, Martin Králík (Czech Republic)
  
  
• Light external walls and thermal stability of a room
  Monika Zachařová, Sylva Klímová, Danuše Čuprová (Czech Republic)
  
  
• The energy efficiency of supplementary lighting systems
  Dariusz Heim, Eliza Szczepańska, Marek Jabłoński (Poland)

Materials

• Resource efficiency – The Cinderella of the efficiency debate
  Holger Wallbaum (Switzerland)
  
  
• Structural connections with thermal separation
  Zuzana Šulcová, Zdeněk Sokol, František Wald (Czech Republic)
  
  
• Fibreconcretes with aggregate from recycled materials
  Jaroslav Výborný, Jan Vodička, Hana Hanzlová, Vladimíra Vytlačilová (Czech Republic)
  
  
• PURR-e: Tool for a green cities design
  Leszek Świątek (Poland)
  
  
• Design for disassembly and recycling – Using radio fraquency identification (RFID) technology to facilitate whole life actions for sustainable construction
  Graham Paterson, Steven Taylor (UK), Philip Crowther (Australia)
  
  
• Earthen architecture – Regional cultural heritage
  Hana Urbášková, Ivana Žabičková (Czech Republic)
  
  
• Inclined green roofs – Ecological and economical advantages, passive heating and cooling effects
  Gernot Minke (Germany)
  
  
• Savings of natural resources by the use of elements from recycled municipal waste in building construction
  Jan Mukařovský, Petr Hájek (Czech Republic)
  
  
• Prefabricated load bearing wall panels – Effective technologies for earth structures
  Jan Růžička (Czech Republic)
  
  
• Disolution of fibers used in insulating materials production
  Marie Strnadová, Jiří Hamáček, Aleš Helebrant (Czech Republic)
  
  
• Industrial unfired loam brick buildings with passive house standard
  Christine Kunze, Mario Kubista, Karl Macho (Austria)
  
  
• Use of ignition layer in production of sintered fly ash aggregate
  Veronika Kalová (Czech Republic)
  
  
• Burnt oil shale – Main constituent of portland cement
  Lembi-Merike Raado, Viive Nurm (Estonia)
  
  
• Mechanical and hygric properties of FGD gypsum modified by secondary raw materials
  Pavel Tesárek, Eva Mňahončáková, Miloš Jerman, Robert Černý (Czech Republic)
  
  
• Basic formulation of environmental design, maintenance and repair optimization of concrete structures
  Petr Štěpánek, Jan Plšek (Czech Republic)
  
  
• Simulation of behaviour of FRC with recycled aggregate
  Alena Kohoutková, Iva Broukalová (Czech Republic)
  
  
• Concrete mix and environmental load in the context of durability and reliability
  Pavel Rovnaník, Břetislav Teplý, Pavla Rovnaníková (Czech Republic)
  
  
• Research of the substitution of bonding and modification material in the grouting system
  Pavla Matulová (Czech Republic)
  
  
• Column behaviour of austenitic steel hollow sections
  Michal Jandera, Josef Macháček (Czech Republic)

Materials - posters

• Developing of new non-metallic concrete reinforcement
  David Horák, Petr Štěpánek, Pavel Krůpa (Czech Republic)
  
  
• Frost resistence of self-compacting concrete
  Januzs Szwabowski, Beata Łaźniewska (Poland)
  
  
• Expandable dwelling system – For cheap and fast erection and dismantling
  Pavel Truksa (Czech Republic)
  
  
• Utilization of hemp as a filler of cement-bonded particleboards
  Jiří Bydžovský, Filip Khestl, (Czech Republic)