Published: 18/11/08

BUILDINGS AS MATERIAL BANKS

A PATHWAY FOR A CIRCULAR FUTURE

RESEARCH DAYS

6-7 February 2019, Brussels, Belgium

 

Time: 6 February 2019 Wednesday halfday (afternoon) and 7 February 2019 Thursday all day

The BAMB Consortium is pleased to invite you to participate in BAMB’s final event “BUILDINGS AS MATERIAL BANKS – A  PATHWAY FOR A CIRCULAR FUTURE” (SBE19 Brussels – BAMB-CIRCPATH) – Research Days that will be hold in Brussels on 06 to 07 of February 2019. The Consortium of the H2020 BAMB Project is proud to inform that the BAMB final event Research Days is part of the worldwide prestigious SBE19 Conference Series.

The research Days is an important step on the pathways towards a circular economy in the building/construction sector. This international conference intends to bring together researchers and industry experts from the entire world to exchange their ideas and research and showcase advanced innovative technologies and methodologies for the built environment.

All accepted papers will be published in collaboration with IOP Publishers as open access papers in electronic proceedings within IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science (EES, http://conferenceseries.iop.org) and submitted for indexing by ISI (Web of Science) and Scopus.

A book of abstracts will be made available to delegates in electronic form.

The participation in the scientific part of the event is subject to a registration fee. Please note that the registration fee of the conference allows for up to two submissions.

SBE19 Brussels _ BAMB-CIRCPATH organising committee is very pleased to announce that the registration for the conference is already open. Now, participants and attendees can process their registrations through the following link: https://www.congressospco.abreu.pt/SBE19-36323.aspx

Travel and accommodation costs for the participation in the SBE19 Brussels – BAMB-CIRCPATH event are to be covered by participants.

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Conference Topics

1. Strategies and tools for the design of reversible and transformable buildings and systems;
2. Design for high reuse potential of buildings and building elements;
3. Design for adaptability;
4. Digitalization in the construction sector to support circular economy;
5. Design for reconfiguration of buildings and systems;
6. Design for reuse of existing buildings, products and equipment;
7. Environmental assessment and measurement tools for circular buildings and products;
8. Environmental and economic impacts of reversible and transformable buildings and products;
9. Efficient waste, resource and facilities management in the building sector;
10. Management tools / mechanisms that support system, component and material reuse;
11. Cradle to cradle strategies and materials health;
12. Barriers and opportunities for a dynamic and a circular built environment;
13. BIM to support greater reuse and recovery from demolition/deconstruction;
14. Design for high reuse potential and BIM;
15. BIM for existing buildings;
16. Innovative business models around circularity of resources in the construction sector;
17. Policies and standards for a circular built environment;
18. Case studies.

 

Venue

The conference will be held at:

Brussels Environment (IBGE-BIM)

Site de Tour & Taxis

Avenue du Port 86C/3000

1000 Brussels, Belgium

 

Important Dates

01 June 2018: Opening of abstract submission

15 July 2018: Second deadline for abstract submission

16 July 2018: Notification of the acceptance of abstracts by the Scientific Committee and launch of the third call for abstract submission

09 August 2018: Third deadline for abstract submission

10 August 2018: Third call for abstracts – Notification of the acceptance of abstracts by the Scientific Committee

07 October 2018: Deadline for paper submission

12 November 2018: Notification of the acceptance of papers by the Scientific Committee

05 December 2018: Deadline for submission of final paper

21 January 2019: Announcement of the Final Programme of the Conference

 

Registration fees

	Before 5th December 2018	After 5th December 2018
Standard registration fee	250€	350€
Student registration fee	125€	225€
Publication fee	100€	200€

 

Contacts

University of Minho, Campus Azurém, 4800-058 Guimarães, PORTUGAL

Tel: +351 253 510 242

Email: bamb2020@civil.uminho.pt

 

Conference Coordinator

Prof. Luís Bragança

Civil Engineering Department

School of Engineering

University of Minho

4800-058 Guimarães

PORTUGAL

 

Tel.: + 351 253 510 241

Mobile: + 351 966 042 447

Email: braganca@civil.uminho.pt

Web: http://civil.uminho.pt

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Media Partnership

Technologies

Technologies (ISSN 2227-7080) is an international open access journal singularly focusing on emerging scientific and technological trends and is published quarterly online by MDPI with an average publishing time of 50 days from submission to publication in 2017. It was covered by Emerging Sources Citation Index – Web of Science and Inspec (IET), more detailed could be found at: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/technologies/