Sustainable Places 2022

Sustainability targets and climate change objectives cannot be met without addressing buildings and the built environment at the building, district and urban scale to include our transport and energy infrastructures. Renowned for showcasing results coming out of the EU Horizon 2020 Framework Programme via the participation of cutting-edge research and innovation projects, the scope of Sustainable Places is captured directly in its name. It involves designing, building and retrofitting the places we live and work in a more sustainable way. 

Sustainable Places prides itself on being an ideal platform for the dissemination of research, the conduct of workshops, EU project clustering and networking between stakeholders of all types. The 2022 conference, SP2022, was held over four days in a hybrid (digital + in-person) event format. Between opening and closing keynote sessions, parallel technical sessions and project-organized workshops will explore the various conference themes. Given world events we encourage submissions on technology transfer, renewable energy implementations and energy security with the aim of facilitating actions that increase the rate of renovation and renewable energy implementations.

Topics in this collection are related to the conference themes:

• Sustainable Construction & Renovation
• Smart Cities, Smart Grids and Urban Transition
• Digitalization, Smartness & Artificial Intelligence
• Facilitating the energy transition: Policy, Finance, Training
• Sustainable Urban Renewal & Cultural Transformation
• Renewable Energy Technologies
• Decarbonization & Circularity
• Resilience and Energy Security

Collection advisors: Diego Reforgiato (Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Italy), Cécile Barrere (R2M Solution, Italy), Zia Lennard (R2M Solution, Italy), Nadine Tournois (Côte d'Azur University, France)