iiSBE releases 2022 Annual Report

Submitted by nlarsson on Mon, 01/09/2023 - 16:10

Our Annual Report, which has been previously issued before the end of the calendar year, comes a month or so later than usual, but iiSBE has been busy and productive in 2022.

In this report you will read about some of our key activities and achievements in 2022 including:

* Support for sustainable reconstruction of Ukraine
* The WSBE and SBE Conference series
* The new CEN Workshop Agreement (CWA) on TRAIN4SUSTAIN Competency Standard
* The WG on Research & Tools (WG R&T) and recent developments in SBTool and SNTool.

WSBE23 Montreal conference delayed to early 2024

Submitted by nlarsson on Mon, 12/05/2022 - 23:34

The organisers of the WSBE23 Montreal conference, which was scheduled to take place on September 27 – 29, 2023, has now been delayed to the Spring of 2024, probably late May or very early June.

A definite consequence is a delay in deadline for submission of paper abstracts. The deadline had been Monday, December 5 and has now been pushed off to April 5, 2023. You can find details at https://wsbe23.ca/program/program-abstract/.

Tool to assess urban and building damage - Update

Submitted by nlarsson on Tue, 10/04/2022 - 16:43

We recently provided news of a draft Excel tool to provide crude assessments of damage to urban areas and buildings caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

We have made the tool more user friendly and, equally important, we have improved the sections that deal with the impact of natural phenomena, including earthquakes and climate change impacts.

The tool can be operated in English, Ukrainian, Polish, French, Spanish, German and Turkish.

We have now also prepared an explanatory file.

Draft tool to assess Ukraine war damage available

Submitted by nlarsson on Wed, 09/28/2022 - 16:29

A draft version of an Excel tool is now available to provide organisations closer to the scene with a way of describing the damage in Ukrainian urban areas resulting from the Russian invasion.

We have been working with about a dozen iiSBE and other colleagues in several central European countries with an interest in sustainable reconstruction of Ukraine. Main participants in the tool development include Prof. Kajetan Sadowski and Dr. Woytek Kujawski (Poland), Dr. Antonin Lupisek and Nika Trubina (Czechia), with overall management provided by Nils Larsson (Canada).

SBE Sousse Seminar

Submitted by nlarsson on Wed, 09/28/2022 - 16:11

The SBE Sousse Seminar is part of the SBE Series 2021-2023 and is carried out in the frame of the Sustainable MED Cities Project (ENI CBC MED Program).

The event will take place at 9:30-17:00 on 19 October 2022 in Sousse, Tunisia. The event will be hybrid event with in-person sessions and web access through the Zoom platform.