Thank you to all our attendees, sponsors and collaborators for making the 7th edition of Sustainable Places the most successful edition to date. Details will be published in Autumn for the next edition in Aix les Bins where we will continue as Europe’s #1 destination for dissemination of research, collaboration, networking and the creation of market opportunities
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Conference Scope
Sustainability targets and climate change objectives cannot be met without addressing buildings and the built environment at the building, district and urban scale to include our transport and energy infrastructures. Renowned for showcasing results coming out of the EU Horizon 2020 Framework Programme via the participation of cutting-edge research and innovation projects, the scope of Sustainable Places is captured directly in the name. It involves designing, building and retrofitting the places we live and work in a more sustainable way.
Conference Concept
Sustainable Places prides itself on being an ideal platform for the dissemination of research, the conduct of workshops, EU project clustering and networking between stakeholders of all types. SP2019 was held over three days allowing morning travel on the first day and afternoon travel on the third day. Between opening and closing keynote sessions, parallel technical sessions and project-organized workshops were held on conference topic areas. The venue was available all week (free of charge) for project meetings and side events.
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
SP2019 Conference Agenda
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Morning |
Workshops Technical Sessions |
Workshops Closing Keynotes |
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Lunch |
Welcome Lunch |
Lunch |
Farewell lunch |
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Afternoon |
Opening Keynotes Workshops |
Workshops Technical Sessions |
Offsite visits |
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Evening |
Gala dinner |
Happy hour & performance |
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Learn more about the H2020 Info Day and Brokerage Event on Energy Efficiency here
Conference Topics
Each year, Sustainable Places features topics that are shaping how we think about buildings and the built environment. The 7th edition of Sustainable Places (SP2019) 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, SP2019 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. In past editions of Sustainable Places, several examples of technical contributions and/or workshops have included:
Energy efficiency in buildings
Smart grids and demand response
Renewable energy technologies
Energy storage
District heating and cooling
Nature based solutions
Circularity
Digitalization and technologies to reduce the energy performance gap
SP2019 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”
The Venue
Local event organizer Omar Caboni - R2M Solution
It was with great pleasure that I invited you to the “Green Island” of Sardegna and to my home town of Cagliari. We made a big effort to involve local stakeholders and I hope you really enjoyed the event, people and spirit of Cagliari!
Lazzaretto Cultural Center. Via dei Navigatori, 1, 09126 Cagliari CA.
And if needed, the municipal city hall and University of Cagliari can provide spaces for project meetings, parallel sessions or locations for special requests / events. We invite everyone to make the most of Sustainable Places 2019.
Special requests, project meetings or events all week long free of charge
Images from SP2019
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Media Partnership & Publishing Opportunities
We were proud to announce a media partnership with Insight Publishers for SP2019 and beyond. Insight published a Projects Magazine which was distributed at SP19. For information, please contact Sam Davis at sam@ipl.eu.com.
All technical contributions submitted to SP2019 were published by MDPI in Open Access format. Apart from this, extended papers were considered for publication in a dedicated issue of the Journal Buildings. To take advantage of this possibility, authors checked the appropriate box on the CfP or wrote to sustainableplaces@r2msolution.com to express interest.
THE FINAL BUILDINGS JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS PUBLICATIONS ARE NOW OPENLY ACCESSIBLE.
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.
