Sustainable Built Environment Conference (SBE25)

The SBE series was launched in 2000 and is now well-established as a leading international series of conferences focusing on the sustainable built environment. 

The 2025 conference topic is “Shaping Tomorrow: Systems Thinking in the Built Environment”.

Conference Scope  

We invite contributions that showcase the benefits of interdisciplinary, cross-sectoral, multifunctional, multiscale, multidomain, and multistakeholder approaches. These contributions should demonstrate the application of systems thinking to developing and implementing solutions for a more resilient, fair, dignified and sustainable built environment. Models and real case studies are accepted. We welcome contributions from the following sustainability topics associated with the built environment:

• Circular economy and bioeconomy
• Urban-rural-industrial symbiosis
• Climate neutrality and net-zero carbon systems 
• Carbon storage in the built environment 
• Carbon budget definition and use
• Climate justice and social equity 
• Climate change and resilience 
• Housing crisis/emergency 
• Social housing 
• Informal settlements 
• Post-disaster and post-conflict (re)construction in humanitarian actions
• Digital transformation 
• Circular and low-carbon solutions and materials (high-tech, low-tech, no-tech, vernacular and new vernacular) 
• Scaling up sustainable technologies 
• Sustainability assessment methods: Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Materials Flow Analysis (MFA), Input-Output Analysis (IO), Life Cycle Costing (LCC), Social Life Cycle Assessment (sLCA), among others 
• Sustainability labels and standards 
• Sustainable asset management 
• Decision-support tools for sustainability management 
• Policymaking and policy implementation for territorial transformation 

Provisional Deadlines

• 31 October 2024 – Abstract submission deadline
• 30 November 2024 – Abstract acceptance notification 
• 31 January 2025 – Full paper submission deadline 
• 28 February 2025 – Extended abstract submission deadline 
• 31 March 2025 – Full paper / Extended abstract acceptance notification 
• 30 April 2025 – Early bird registration deadline
• 15 June 2025 – Registration deadline 
• 25 to 27 June 2025 – Conference dates 

More information at https://sbe.ethz.ch/