During December 2019, the SBE partners issued requests for expressions of interest (EOI) for a single world event, to be held in 2023, and for a series of regional events to be held during the period April 2021 to the end of 2022.
The EOIs for the World SBE 23 event were subject to a competitive evaluation.
Ilker Kahraman (iiSBE member in Izmir Turkey), Andrea Moro (head of iiSBE in Italy), and Nils Larsson (XD of iiSBE) led a workshop on building sustainability and neighbourhood performance assessment in Izmir, Turkey during Feb. 5 and 6, 2020, using the iiSBE SBTool building performance assessment tool and the SNTool neighbourhood assessment framework tool as platforms for development and discussion.
French President Emanuel Macron is mandating that all new public buildings in France which are financed by the government must contain at least 50% wood or other organic materials starting in 2022.
Even before yesterday's announcement, French cities beyond Paris have embraced timber construction. Hyperion, with cross-laminated timber (CLT) floors and walls wrapping a concrete core, is one of two wooden towers under construction in Bordeaux.
iiSBE focuses its efforts on issues related to Sustainable Built Environment (SBE) and as part of this mission iiSBE has been a leader in the development and management of an international SBE conference series since the year 2000. This work is carried out in partnership with four international organizations including:
International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction (CIB, www.cibworld.nl)
International Initiative for a Sustainable Built Environment (iiSBE, www.iisbe.org)
International Federation of Consulting Engineers, www.fidic.org
United Nations Environment Programme, www.unenvironment.org
During the last week of October, the SBE Secretariat released a request for expressions of interest for the next global SBE conference, to be held in 2023. The selected conference proposal will be publicly announced at the WSBE20 conference in Gothenburg during June 2020.
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