Preliminary news on SBE 25 regional conferences

The regional SBE25 events will likely include the following:

* SBE25 Zurich, Switzerland | 25-27.06.2025 (call for abstracts and website launched)
* SBE25 Prague, Czechia | 16-19.09.2025 (call for abstracts launched)
* SBE25 Seville, Spain | 22-24.10.2025
* SBE25 Trondheim, Norway | 24-27.11.2025
* SBE25 Tokyo-Yokohama date TBD

An announcement for the selected 2026 WSBE conference will be announced soon.

regards, NL for iiSBE

WSBE24 summary

We have summaries about the virtual WSBE24 conference that was held in June. Please go to https://sbe-series.org/wsbe24-conference-highlights for details.

Updated versions of SBTool 2024 rev.

We have just completed an updated version of SBTool that fixes some bugs and also provides bilingual English/French versions of core worksheets and also increases the range of descriptive variables. This is an on-going process and further stages of completed files will be posted in some weeks.

The XLS files have been corrected.

Nils Larsson
iiSBE

Presentation on Integrated Design Process

On 15 April N. Larsson of iiSBE made a 75 minute virtual presentation to 60+ staff members and consultants acting as project managers, as expertise professionals and design facilitators for projects being constructed by Société québécoise des infrastructures (SQI), the dedicated agency of the province of Québec.

RFP released for 2025-26 cycle of SBE events

The RFP for the next round of Regional and World Sustainable Built Environment (SBE) conferences 2025-26 has just been released by the SBE Partners and Permanent Co-hosts, consisting of CIB, the International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction, UNEP, the UN Environment Programme, FIDIC, the International Federation of Consulting Engineers and iiSBE, the International Initiative for a Sustainable Built Environment.