Sustainable building

Buildings represent an essential element of the built environment created for preserving quality of human life. Construction and operation of buildings belong among the biggest consumers of primary materials, energy resources, and environment pollutants as well. It is a well known fact that buildings in highly developed countries are responsible for about 30 or 40% of the total energy consumption and have the same share in production of carbon dioxide, waste and other pollutants.
The development of new technologies and the use of progressive materials and advanced construction solutions leading to quality improvement of buildings not only in economic, but also in the environmental and socio-cultural sense, represents a huge potential for sustainable society development. The population growth, depletion of primary materials, energy and drinking water sources, deterioration of the environment (including the consequences of global warming in the form of a higher frequency of natural disasters) necessarily lead to a more intensive search for new, environmentally suitable approaches and solutions.
Sustainable building offers many opportunities for significant advancement in our Central Europe region.

Conference objectives

The CESB 13 conference is a part of a 2013 international conferences series on sustainable building organized in different regions of the world. The Prague CESB13 – Central Europe towards Sustainable building conference intents to cover primarily region of Czech Republic, Austria, Germany, Hungary, Slovenia, Poland, Slovakia and Switzerland. Contributors from other countries are also warmly welcome.
The main goal of the conference is to summarize state of the art in the region, recognize future trends and discuss possible targets for the next years.

Conference topics

• Sustainable refurbishment of existing building stock
• Low-tech and high-tech materials and technologies for buildings
• New generation of energy optimized buildings
• Decision support tools and assessment methods
• Sustainable building and education

For more information, see the program.

Czech Sustainable Building Society - CSBS iiSBE Czech

CSBS is an official representative of International Initiative for a Sustainable Built Environment (iiSBE) in the Czech Republic. CSBS is a non-profit organization founded with the aim of promoting the ideas mentioned above in the specific national conditions of CR. It manages the development and introduction of a building complex evaluation system, supports information and educational activities related to sustainable built development.

International conveners

The traditional SB conferences series are organized in cooperation with international conveners International Initiative for a Sustainable Built Environment (iiSBE), International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction (CIB) and Sustainable Building and Construction Initiative of UNEP (UNEP-SBCI).