Sustainability in Energy and Buildings, SEB-16
Turin, Italy
11-13 September 2016

Following the success of earlier events in the series, SEB-16, the Eighth International Conference on Sustainability in Energy and Buildings took place in the vibrant city of Turin, organised by the Politecnico di Torino in partnership with KES International.

SEB-16 invites participation and paper submissions across a broad range of sustainability and energy related topics relevant to the main theme of Sustainability in Energy and Buildings.

Applicable areas include sustainable design and of buildings, neighbourhoods and cities (built and natural environment); optimisation and modelling techniques; smart energy systems for smart cities; green information communications technology; and well as a broad range of solar, wind, wave and other renewable energy topics.

The conference brought together researchers and government and industry professionals to discuss the future of energy in buildings, neighbourhoods and cities from a theoretical, practical, implementation and simulation perspective. The conference will be an exciting chance to present, interact, and learn about the latest research in Sustainability in Energy and Buildings.

The SEB16 Prize Committee awarded the Best Research Paper award to:
'Energy analysis of a transcritical CO2 supermarket refrigeration system with heat recovery'
Alessio Polzot, Paola D'Agaro, Giovanni Cortella

The Best Poster in the Doctoral Track Session Award was judged to be:
'Characterization and assessment of a hybrid cooling system integrated in buildings'
Amaia Zuazua Ros

The Best Invited Session prize went to 'Smart strategies for existing and historic building retrofitting' organised by Dr Elisa Di Giuseppe.

The Georgios Kazas Award went to:
'The use of multi-detail building archetypes in urban energy modelling'
Claudia Sousa Monteiro, André Pina, Carlos Cerezo, Christoph Reinhart, Paulo Ferrão

Papers will be published in Elsevier's Energy Procedia (ISSN: 1876-6102) open access journal, available in ScienceDirect and submitted to be indexed/abstracted in Scopus, Engineering Information Compendex and other places, see .. here ..


  • KES International

  • wind turbine
  • Solar Building

  • Conference photos
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