Sustainable Places 2023

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 2023 conference, SP2023, was held over three days in a hybrid (digital + in-person) event format. Between opening and closing keynote sessions, parallel technical sessions and project-organised 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:

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

Collection advisors: Ester Higueras (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain, Urban and regional planning, Spain), Roberto San Jose (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, LSIIS, Spain), Andrea Alonso (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, DUyOT, Spain), Zia Lennard (R2M Solution, Italy)