SP19
Cagliari
Thank you to all our attendees, sponsors and collaborators for making the 7th edition of Sustainable Places the most successful edition to date.
Sustainable Places consists of:
- Keynote speakers
- Technical paper sessions
- Thematic workshops & EU project clustering
- Exhibition area (posters, brochures, and prototypes)
- Local area visits
- Excellent people, collaboration and discussion
THEMES
SP19
Each year, Sustainable Places features topics that are shaping how we think about buildings and the built environment. The 7th edition of Sustainable Places featured topics that were specific to the environment of Sardegna.
- Island Sustainability
- Investing in EE Retrofit
- Demand Response
- Smart Cities
- Sustainability Protocols
Beyond the thematic sessions listed above, SP19 continued to be open to all topics related to building sustainability and most often reflect priorities reflected in the European Commission Societal Challenges and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
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SP19 keynote speakers
Dr. Karim Selouane
Head of Resilience / Climate Change at Vinci Construction Founder and CEO of Resallience "How to make Infrastructures and Cities Reslient towards Climate Change"
Dr. Don McLean
Founder and Managing Director of Integrated Environmental Solution (IES) "Sustainable Communities: A Manifesto for Saving the Planet"
Andrea Raimondi
Business Developer Energy Efficiency for Legrand Group "Legrand Group: the strong engagement in Energy Efficiency"
Ing. Raffaele Cosenza
Energy Manager Banco di Sardegna “Switch- Off project : energy efficiency for Banco di Sardegna buildings”
Margot Pinault
Policy Officer, European Commission, Directorate General for Energy, Unit C.3- Energy Efficiency, Buildings and Finance Team “Accelerating the transition to clean energy and sustainable buidings- the EU policy and funding”
Audrey Nugent
Head of Advocacy World Green Building Council “Green Building Councils – Putting a sustainable built environment at the heart of Europe's future”
Annalisa Bonfiglio
President CRS4 “From the Smart City to the Smart Island: life-improving projects based on digital technologies ”
Niccolò Elia Sovico & Sergio Pedolazzi
Founders and Management Team of Ener2Crowd “Crowdsourcing Sustainable Places”
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Media Partnership & Publishing Opportunities
SP2019 established a media partnership with Insight Publishers for the 2019 edition and beyond. As part of this collaboration, Insight published a Projects Magazine which was distributed to all attendees during the event.
Scientific publications
All technical contributions submitted to SP2019 were published by MDPI in Open Access format. Additionally, extended papers were selected for publication in a dedicated issue of the Buildings journal.
The final collections are openly accessible:
Buildings Journal special issue
Proceedings publications
Sponsors
Sponsors elected tailored packages such as a general sponsorship, to sponsor various parts of the event (e.g. lunch or coffee break), or registration packages that made possible local or student registrations. We welcomed industrials to get involved in the support of this event and platform. All sponsors were featured in SP2019 promotional literature and were welcome to display materials in the foyer areas.