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 10 conference is a part of a 2010 international conferences series on sustainable building organized in different regions of the world. The Prague CESB10 – 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.

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The Scientific Committee has obtained 210 abstracts from 38 countries.

Conference topics

• Advanced building design

Integrated design, challenging strategies, case studies, urban consequences, best practices

• Energy efficiency

Solar energy and sustainable building, low energy, passive and zero energy buildings

• Material efficiency

Durability, reliability, high performance materials, renewable, recycled and alternative materials

• Quality of internal and external environment

Functional and operational quality of buildings, indoor climate, optimization, simulation and calculation tools

• Assessment methods

Sustainable buildings assessment schemes, LCA, building quality optimization tools, certification

• Economy

Low-cost buildings, LCC, added value, economical benefits of sustainable buildings

• Policy and legislation

Legislative support, standardization, public activities, active approach of governments and local authorities

• Education and information

Education at secondary schools and universities, lifetime education, information dissemination

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).

          
                    

Previous conference CESB 07

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.
The CESB07 webpage is still available at www.substance.cz/cesb07.