GBC España is pleased to announce the call for papers for the International Regional Sustainable Building Conference it will host in Madrid, on April 28-30, 2010 with the name SB10MAD and the motto:

“Sustainable Construction. Revitalisation and Rehabilitation of Districts.” 

New modeling by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) shows how energy use in buildings can be cut by 60 percent by 2050 – essential to meeting global climate change targets – but this will require immediate action to transform the building sector. This is the central message of the report from the WBCSD’s four-year, $15 million Energy Efficiency in Buildings (EEB) research project, the most rigorous study ever conducted on the subject.

The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP)'s newly renamed Sustainable Building and Climate Change Initiative (SBCI) hosted its General Meeting on April 15-17 in Washington, DC. 

The Green Building Festival is pleased to announce the 2009 theme: RE. They are currently welcoming international presentation proposals that address their theme: renovating, regenerating, rebuilding, remaking, retrofit­ting, recycling, reusing, reimagining. Or suggest your own RE.