Our most important activity is networking; helping specialists and generalists to get to know each others’ abilities and needs. This occurs formally through our databases and newsletter, and informally through every-day e-mails. Other more specific activities include the following:

• We are probably best known for the continuing development of our building performance assessment system, formerly known as GBTool, and now called SBTool. This is a flexible framework operating on Excel that can be configured to suit almost any local condition or building type
• In 2007, we developed a version of SBTool to suit the needs of an international competition sponsored by the Principality of Monaco, to extend the downtown area into the sea. The flexible framework proved its worth and its application was an unqualified success
• In 2008, iiSBE was retained to develop the first phase of a common set of indicators for the SB Alliance, a grouping of primarily European assessment and certification-oriented organizations
• The Sustainable Building Information System (SBIS) is a multi-language, web-based data¬base of international R&D information relat¬ing to sustainable building - see www.sbis.info
• We have begun an international training program in sustainable building and construction, in partnership with FIDIC, the international association of civil engineering firms. A pilot session was successfully held in Thessaloniki, Greece, in May of 2009 and a second will be held in Qatar in January 2010
• iiSBE, CIB and UNEP are international co-sponsors of the SB global conference series that began at Maastricht in 2000, then went on to Oslo in 2002, Tokyo in 2005, and Melbourne, Australia in 2008. The next global event will be held in Helsinki in October, 2011
• In partnership with CIB and UNEP, iiSBE sponsored a series of regional SB conferences in 2004, and a similar series took place in 2007, in 10 locations. Ten events are planned for 2010, in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America. The best peer-reviewed papers from these events will have a fast-track to the SB11 event
• We are managing and providing technical sup¬port for the international Sustainable Building Challenge (SBC) process, which invited design and development teams to display projects at our global SB conferences. The projects need to be assessed by any of the established rating systems and also need to submit data on key performance indicators
• We are a partner organization of the UNEP Sustainable Building and Construction Initiative (SBCI), a group of global construction-sector firms that develop initiatives related to sustainable building.

See in the attachemt iiSBE info 2010.pdf the organization overview and structure.

In the file iiSBE short overview 2010.pdf there is presentation on
iiSBE activities, overview of Board of Directors 2010-2011, active working groups, overview of regional SB conferences 2010 and World SB11 confernce in Helsinki, info on SBTool, SB Method, Protocollo ITACA and social housing projects in Italy.