The SBE27 Delft conference theme will be “People, Planet and the Built Environment: Governing District-Scale Transitions in an Uncertain World”.
This confernence theme addresses the urgency of scaling sustainability from individual assets to district level. Driven by digital twins, zero-emission infrastructure, and circular economics with community governance and affordable housing, this conference focuses on navigating uncertainty to deliver equitable, resilient, and decarbonized districts.
SBE27 Delft welcomes contributions that:
- Showcase new models, frameworks, and technologies for transitional, circular or sustainable practices.
- Present case studies and best practices highlighting successful strategies and lessons learned worldwide.
- Identify barriers and enablers of transformation across scales of the built environment.
- Explore pathways for collaboration between academia, industry, policy, and civil society.
- Address diverse contexts, challenges, and opportunities across regions and scales.
The following (sub)themes serve as a guideline:
- Governance & institutional frameworks for district-scale transitions
- Zero-emission buildings, district energy systems, and grid congestion
- Behavioural and social dimensions of renovation decision-making
- Circularity, embodied carbon, and the twin (digital + green) transition
- Affordable & social housing: split incentives, financing, equity in the renovation wave
- Positive Energy Districts, energy communities, and cooperative energy governance
- Simulation, AI, Digital Twins, monitoring, and data-driven methods for building and urban performance
- Energy poverty, just transition, and SDG-aligned policy instruments
We particularly encourage submissions that bridge research and practice, offering innovative, whole-lifecycle approaches to embed actionable sustainability and circularity across scales and sectors.