The Technical Committee has been in existence since 2008, and guides the development of the SB Method under the leadership of Manuel Macias, of UPM, Madrid.

iiSBE has established an Urban Working group, led by Serge Salat, a senior researcher at CSTB in France. The group will be developing performance indicators at the neighborhood scale and, at the time of writing (February 6, 2010) already has 30 members.

A second working group will soon be establish to develop ideas for the extension of the Smart Grid concept to include optimization of other local systems, such as local long-term thermal storage, rain- and grey-water storage and re-distribution, and other systems that are relevant to sustainable building.