Out of the ashes of BRI, a new phoenix arises. The former editors and editorial board members of BRI have created a new journal, entitled Buildings & Cities (B&C). The editorial team is Richard Lorch, Faye Wade, Ray Cole, Niklaus Kohler, Sofie Pelsmakers and Fionn Stevenson. They bring a strong track record of experience, integrity, and achievement.
The 35th PLEA conference, Planning Post Carbon Cities, will take place in A Coruña, Spain, 1–3 Sep, 2020. Its official website is
The PLEA 2020 Conference will look into the interplay between research, technology, and design in defining and planning future cities. We invite submission of extended abstracts that address the conference theme and focus on one of the following topics:
Effective Daylighting with High-Performance Façades
Comfort at the Extremes, Dubai, UAE, Apr 10–11, 2019
Sue Roaf and Fergus Nichols have been part of the organizing team for the Windsor Conference on Thermal Comfort in the UK for many years. Last year, the group, gathering on the grounds of Windsor Castle, decided to launch a new conference addressing comfort at the extremes.
The Passive Low Energy Architecture Conference, PLEA 2018, was held Dec 10–12 in Hong Kong, China. The conference was hosted by the School of Architecture at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and chaired by Edward Ng.
This past October, I was delighted to be invited to present a talk and workshop at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Grenoble as part of their Arts in the Alps program (see: <https://www.arts-in-the-alps.com/fall-conferences/2018-2/>). The talk, “Sculpting the
The Society of Building Science Educators is pleased to announce that it can provide ONE scholarship to a qualified student to help defray the cost of attending any building science related conference—to be held between September 2018 and June 2019. The scholarship will provide $700 from SBSE to assist in meeting the costs of participating in the conference.
Application and Scholarship Details
During the past three years Climate Adaptive Design: Where Climate Science Meets Building Science, hosted by The Collider and AIA Asheville, has grown from 40 attendees in 2015 to 80 in 2017. Each year the event brings together world-renowned climate scientists and architects to provide insight on how their professions are addressing the changing climate. In addition to the full day of presentations, the event also offers a public lecture with content for all from homeowners to industry professionals.
Many of you are familiar with the BEEnow rating system for schools of architecture. It is being developed and promoted by SBSE colleague Norbert Lechner and other thought leaders to reward architecture schools for excellence in educating for carbon-neutral design—and to thereby encourage such excellence among other architecture programs.
Lighting educators met on 1 Nov in a pre-conference session moderated by Alison Ritter and Malcolm Innes, who began with an update of the work achieved by a Think/Do Tank on the lighting profession and lighting education. Guest speaker Natalia Bystryantseva, Head of the Art & Science Institute and Director of the Creative Lighting Design (CLD) program at ITMO University in St.
