CILECCTA SUCCESS AT SB11 HELSINKI

CILECCTA was represented at the important World Sustainable Buildings Conference (SB11) held in Helsinki in October 2011. This was the sixth conference in the SB series; they are held every three years– SB14 will be in Barcelona. SB11 attracted over 1000 delegates from over 50 countries.

 

CILECCTA was represented at the important World Sustainable Buildings Conference (SB11) held in Helsinki in October 2011.This was the sixth conference in the SB series; they are held every three years– SB14 will be in Barcelona. SB11 attracted over 1000 delegates from over50 countries.

Dr William Fawcett of Cambridge Architectural Research Ltd, one of the CILECCTA partners, presented a paper called 'Sustainable Construction Projects: case study of flexible strategies for long-term sustainability under uncertainty'.

The paper was co-authored by Hannes Kriegand Stefan Albrecht of the University of Stuttgart, Dr Martin Hughes of Cambridge Architectural Research Ltd and Dr Anders Vennström of Luleå University of Technology, Sweden.  

The paper outlined CILECCTA's innovative approach to life-cycle evaluation – the linking of money-based and environmentally-based evaluation (LCC and LCA), the adoption of a probabilistic approach, and the evaluation flexible design alternatives. It presented a worked example that combined all these innovative features. This was about the efficient specification of thermal insulation when the future price of fuel is uncertain.The case study findings demonstrated the value of flexibility.