We regret to inform you that Charles Kibert died earlier this week, in a one-car road accident near his university. Charles was professor and Director of the Center for Construction and Environment at University of Florida in Gainesville. He was an active member of iiSBE in the 1990’s and was committed to sustainability issues.
iiSBE has produced an updated version of SNTool and the relevant files can be downloaded here. As always, the system will undergo more changes in the future. The PPT provides an overview of the system. Changes include
* The Basic B worksheet of File B has been modified and enhanced in order to allow better descriptions of neighbourhood characteristics, land uses and occupancy types.
The Beyond 2020 conference began on Monday and the iiSBE panel on Covid and Climate Action took place on Monday Nov. 2. There is a discount for iiSBE and SBE members. The conference url is: https://beyond2020.se
See attached file that was used to guide the panel discussion.
Nils Larsson
An iiSBE overview of issues related to Climate Action, Respiratory Pandemics and the Built Environment, was recently presented to senior staff of Canada Mortgage and Housing Coropration (CMHC) and the UN-sponsored Global Forum on Human Settlements (GFHS).The same file will be the focus of an international panel that will be held as part of the Beyond 2020 international conference, to be (virtually) held in Gothenburg on 02 November.
Of special interest to iiSBE is that the presenters at GFHS included Serge Salat (Paris), Nils Larsson (Ottawa) and Zhang Guoqiang (Hunan).
Angela Poletti, Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at Uni Milano, invited iiSBE to make a presentation on SBTool for her Masters-level students on 5 October.
During preparatory discussions, it became apparent that SNTool (the neighbourhood assessment tool) was of greater interest, and it was presented to about 43 students.
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