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SB Conferences and SB Challenge History and Current Status April 2013

SB Conferences and SB Challenge History and Current Status April 2013. SB conferences. The SB Conference series was established a decade ago, and is now recognized as the pre-eminent conference series related to sustainable building and construction.

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SB Conferences and SB Challenge History and Current Status April 2013

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  1. SB Conferences and SB ChallengeHistory and Current StatusApril 2013

  2. SB conferences • The SB Conference series was established a decade ago, and is now recognized as the pre-eminent conference series related to sustainable building and construction. • The founding international promoting organizations were CIB and iiSBE. UNEP-SBCI joined in 2005 and FIDIC in 2011. • The conference series began as a two-year cycle of world conferences, but has evolved into a three-year cycle.

  3. SB conferences • It should be noted that the uniqueness of the series lies partly in the peer review of papers and its non-commercial aspect, and partly in that delegates tend to be researchers, policy makers and practitioners who are all specialized in sustainable building; • Since inception of the series, a total of about 12,500 delegates have taken part, and by 2014 the total will be about 17,000.

  4. History • CIB launched its first green building conference in London in 1994, then held a second in Paris in 1997; • The Green Building Challenge process was launched in 1996 by the Canadian energy ministry to support international comparisons in the assessment of building performance, and that led to an international conference in Vancouver in 1998; • These separate streams of activity led to a conference series that now has CIB, iiSBE, UNEP and FIDIC as global co-sponsors; • The first event in the new series was SB2000 in Maastricht, Netherlands, then SB02 in Oslo, Tokyo SB05 in September 2005 and Melbourne 2008.

  5. Regional and national SB conferences • In 2002, we had feedback that our conferences were too focused on developed and northern countries; • This led us to organize a series of national events in the year before each globalevent; • We have gradually been able to include events in developing countries; • In 2013, we will have 16 national conferences, all of which will focus on various aspects of sustainable building and construction, and these will be linked to the global SB14 event in Barcelona; • The 2013 national events will, fo the first time, include representation from several developing countries.

  6. SB conference timeline

  7. Confirmed SB conferences for 2013-14

  8. What is the significance of the series? The series is relatively unique in the following aspects: • The events are non-commercial in nature and are self-financing; • They are designed to attract a mixture of researchers, professionals and policy makers; • Several of these events include a speacial day for young researchers; • All technical papers are peer reviewed; • A selection of best papers from national events are fast-tracked for inclusion in the global events; • Technical papers are kept available for future reference in databases managed by CIB and iiSBE; • Students and delegates from developing countries obtain discounts on registration fees;

  9. SB Challenge • SB Challenge is a side event at each global SB conference, consisting of a display of performance case studies; • It is not a competition, but places an emphasis on high performance, including comparisons of results of performance assessments and KPIs; • SB Challenge began in 1998 as well-financed national teams, but as assessment activities became more mainstream, the R&D funding dried up; • Now RFPs are issued to invite projects prepared by firms as well as teams, following standard formats and using common key performance indicators;

  10. SB Challenge 2014 • For 2014, the SB Challenge process is being managed by a partnership of iiSBE and GBCe, the SB14 organizers. • Emphasis in 2014 is on comparisons between Predicted (design stage) and Actual (in use) performance; • Data presented is based on Key Performance Indicators (KPI), which are mainly based on numeric data; • We will include a selection of projects from several European projects; • We will include an analytic report covering all projects (perhaps 50 in total).

  11. Finally • We greatly appreciate all those who have worked hard to organize these events over the years; • And of course the delegates, whose papers, projects and participation made the events so successful; Nils Larsson, SB series coordinator Emilio Mitre, 2013 coordinator and chief organizer of 2014 Barcelona Wim Bakens, Secretary-General of CIB Chrisna Du Plessis, CIB representative Luis Bragança, iiSBE representative Curt Garrigan, UNEP-SBCI representative François Baillon, FIDIC representative

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