Smart and Sustainable Built Environments Conference 2015

25/11/2015

Professor Dunay, Director of Industrial Design at Virginia Tech. Professor Dunay will present the U.S. Dept. of Energy Solar Decathlon Competition at the conference. The session will also include presentations on the European Decathlon by Professor van den Dobbelsteen and Smart and Sustainable Climate Maps by Dr Dirk Condadie.

25/11/2015

Website update: Draft programme, additional speaker profiles, updated tour information, see www.sasbe2015.com...15 days to go!

07/10/2015

Speaker Introduction: Dr Dirk Conradie is a senior researcher in CSIR Built Environment Unit in Pretoria. Dirk obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Pretoria in 2001 with a thesis titled “The use of software systems to implement Case-Based Reasoning enabled intelligent components for architectural briefing and design”. He is part of a research group that focuses on predictive building performance analysis and climatic responsive design using passive techniques. His presentation will be on the quantification of the South African climate to support predictive simulation and passive design methods.

29/07/2015

SPECIAL SESSION ON BUILDING REGULATIONS

As part of the conference, a special session of the CIB TG79 will focus on "The impact of climate change on the future direction of Building Regulation and Control". The main goal of this special session is to share international experience on the impact of climate change on the requirements of and responses from Building Regulation and Control. Contributors should report on challenges, innovative applications and recent research findings relating to theme. This session will bring together different but interrelated perspectives on how to approach this impact.

Should you wish to submit an abstract and paper, it could either be academic (peer-reviewed) or technical (non-peer reviewed). The following deadlines apply to this special session:

The abstract should be submitted before or on 31 August 2015.

Referee feedback will be given before or on 14 September 2015.

The final date for the full paper is 16 October 2015.

Referee feedback will be given before or on 30 October 2015.

The deadline for the final, revised papers (for inclusion in the electronic version of the conference proceedings) is 20 November 2015.

The SASBE 2015 conference is scheduled for 9, 10, 11 December 2015 in Pretoria, South Africa.

For more information on the main conference itself, see http://sasbe2015.com/. For the format and on-line submission process of both the abstract and paper, see http://sasbe2015.com/submit-paper/.For submission of documents and all related enquiries, please mail [email protected].

For specific matters relating to research theme, you may contact the following coordinators via email.

Henk Visscher, Delft University of Technology ([email protected])

Edwin Chan, Hong Kong Polytechnic University ([email protected])

Jacques Laubscher, Tshwane university of Technology ([email protected])

SASBE2015 draws on the momentum of previous SASBE events to develop smart built environment solutions that address local and global sustainability issues.

21/07/2015

In order to have an impact, good research and projects need to be disseminated widely. One way of doing this is to publish in scientific journals and in the media. An interactive ‘Getting Published Workshop’ hosted by editors of a number of journals, such as Jay Yang (Smart and Sustainable Built Environments Journal) and Liesl Hattingh (Earthworks) will be included in SASBE2015 to provide participants with an insight in the publishing process and provide an opportunity of questions and answers.

21/07/2015

Continuous Professional Development (CPD) points for attendance of the conference are being applied for to the South African Institute of Architects (SAIA). Full details of the points available for the conference will be available on the website as soon as confirmation is received from SAIA.

07/07/2015

Reminder: Early bird conference registration discount ends July 31 2015.

07/07/2015

One of the review criteria for papers submitted for the SASBE2015 conference will be 'Consider for Best Paper Award?'

Papers that have been short-listed for best paper awards during the double-blind peer review process will then be assessed by a panel and winners will be announced in the closing ceremony of the conference.

07/07/2015

On the final day of the conference, field trips to sustainable buildings and landscapes are being planned. Buildings, such as the new Department of Environment building in Pretoria, green building rated offices in Sandton and energy and water self-sufficient buildings near Hartebeesdam, as well as landscapes within the University of Pretoria and at Freedom Park are being evaluated for visits.

08/06/2015

Great response to the call for Abstracts!

A large number of abstracts have been received and reviewed. All authours have been notified and we are now ready for full papers! Full papers should be submitted in June and July 2015, to allow for review and changes before the final deadline in August 2015.

13/02/2015

BRI, SASBE and Acta Structilia Journals have expressed an interest in publishing papers from SASBE2015. For more information on the journals and opportunities for publishing to an international audience, please have a look at the posts on www.sasbe2015.com.

13/02/2015

BRI, SASBE and Acta Structilia Journals have expressed an interest in publishing papers from the conference. For more information about the journals and how you may be able to get your work to wider international audience, please have a look at the posts on www.sasbe2015.com