November 2018

CIB Co-Sponsored

BEYOND 2020, World Sustainable Build Environment(WSBE) Conference
June 2020, Gothenburg, Sweden

Positive Footprint Housing (PFH)
How Gothenburg is designing the cities of the future.
Today.
As CIB, International Council for Research andInnovation in Building and Construction, we are very
proud to announce that the next World Sustainable
Built Environment (WSBE) conference will takeplace on 9 - 11 June 2020, in Gothenburg, Sweden’s
2nd largest city.
According to the Global Destination Sustainability
Index, Gothenburg was awarded as the mostsustainable city in the world, for 2 consecutive years(2016 and 2017). It is a prestigious leadership award,
based on a broad international ranking of the progresscities have made towards sustainability.
One might really say that there could be no better
place on earth where to gather professionals, experts,
and stakeholders from all over the world to discuss
about a sustainable development of the cities andcommunities we aim to live in, in the future. Right inthese years, Gothenburg faces its greatest
development in modern history: the city will growclose to a third by 2035, accommodating 150,000 new
Gothenburgers and building 80,000 new homes and as
many workplaces.
Among these 80,000 new homes, it is worth
mentioning 132 newly built apartments (byRiksbyggen) in one of the southern districts ofGothenburg (Guldheden), where the gained insights
and lessons in the increased environmental, social andeconomic sustainability field will get their first practicalconcrete application.
As part of the interdisciplinary research platform about
innovative sustainable housing and urban development
called “Positive Footprint Housing”, the residents ofthese apartments, called Housing Association Viva, will
experience an innovative and sustainable way of living,as part of an extensive and holistic approach tomobility.


They won’t have a parking lot reserved for theirown cars (if they own any), but access to different,
clean mobility options, such as electrical car
sharing, electrical bikes, cargo bikes, including
related service and charging/ parking facilities;
They will have access to a special remote
workplace, to reduce commuting to and from work;
They will have a postal and delivery room, which
will make it easier for them to shop online (timeand transport savings)

Electricity will be generated by the solar panels
installed on the roof and stored in used bus batteries
to capture the power peaks that occur in the evening,when the residents will come home and start thewashing machine or put their cars on charge.

CIB Newsletter

The Positive Footprint Housing platform was initiatedby Riksbyggen in collaboration with Johanneberg
Science Park, Chalmers University of Technology,
University of Gothenburg, Göteborg Energi, the City ofGothenburg and RISE, Research Institutes of Sweden,
among others. For the energy storage project Volvo
Buses, Göteborg Energi, and Iris Smart Cities are also
partners and bus batteries from the ElectriCity buses
are used.

Information
BEYOND 2020 has launched its website
https://beyond2020.se/ and activated its social
platforms on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.
BEYOND 2020 YouTube channel (where you canregister to the channel and activate alerts toautomatically receive updates on new videos).

This is just one of the examples of how Gothenburg(and all of Sweden) is constantly addressing
challenges related to a sustainable urban development.
Our commitment to such challenges is real and wewant to serve as an international best practice in theachievement of the UN Sustainable Development
Goals, in the built environment.
If you wish to be part of this exciting journey, makesure you join us at BEYOND 2020!
BEYOND 2020’s key questions:
1.
2.
3.

What are key challenges of building sustainable
cities and communities of the future in different
parts of the world?
How can these challenges be solved by integrating
UN Sustainable Development Goals?
What is the needed contribution of the global
building sector towards the achievement of UN
Sustainable Development Goals?

SBE Conference SeriesThis Conference is part of the SBE Series of 20192020. More information of this series is to be foundhere.

Important Dates
03 Jul 201902 Oct 201915 Jan 2020
26 Feb 2020
09-11 Jun 2020

Abstract submission
Abstract notification
Final paper submission
Final paper notification
Conference

Follow CIB on

Info Section:
CIB Area of Scientific Interest:
Page 2 of 2

Forthcoming Meetings
Sustainable Environment
19-11-2018