Sustainable Built Environment 2016: Transition Zero − SBE16
The SBE16 series conference ‘Sustainable Built Environment – Transition Zero’ was held on 7 and 8 April 2016, under the auspices of the European Union. Over 200 participants attended the conference. Based on the positive reactions (appreciation score: 7.8 out of 10) we can look back at a successful event.
The overall theme was ‘Transition Zero: From Demonstrations to large-scale NET-Zero Refurbishment’, covering four topics: upscaling, governance, small urban area and circular processes.
The plenary programme had a line-up of inspiring keynote speakers, such as the Dutch Minister for Housing Stef Blok, Member of the European parliament Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy, ZED-Factory Principal Bill Dunster and the famous Dutch ecological architect Thomas Rau. The conference was chaired by Frits Verhey, Board Member of the TKI Urban Energy, and Jacqueline Cramer, Strategic Advisor at the Utrecht Sustainability Institute.
In addition, there were eight parallel sessions featuring 36 presentations. One of the sessions on 8 April was the Young Professionals Event (YPE), in which five students teams were competing for the Transition Zero Award. Winner of the award was the team of Zuyd University of Applied Sciences. From now on the YPE will be an annual event.
Conference impression
- Click here for a brief conference report (in Dutch).
- Click here for the plenary presentations.
- Click here for the presentations of the pre-programme.
- Click here for the session presentations.
- Click here for the event photographes.
- Click on the links below for the videos of the plenary programme on 7 April
- Intro Frits Verheij
- Jan Bogerd
- Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy
- Minister Stef Blok
- Larry Brydon
- Bill Dunster
- Ivo Opstelten
- Ronald Rovers - Click on the links below for the videos of the plenary programme on 8 April
- Intro Nadia Verdeyen, Wim Bakens & Nils Larsson
- Intro Jacqueline Cramer
- Plenary wrap-up
- Presentation of the Transition Zero Award & Audience Award
- Thomas Rau - Click on the links below for the video of the Young Professionals Event on 8 April.
- Introduction
- Transition Zuid-Utrecht to Zero Energy
- Implementation report Go Zero
- Development plan project Ruzafa Valencia
- Advice report for renovation DUWO building TU Delft; Green Dream Solutions
- Project Vrieheide Heerlen
- First reaction jury
SBE16 conference publication
The papers of the presenters in the sessions have been collected in a conference publication. You can read this publication here or download it here.