# Congresses & conferences

Sustainable Built Environment Conference

ETH Zürich Hönggerberg, Stefano-Franscini-Platz 5, 8049 Zürich
Early Bird (until 30.04.2025): CHF 550.00 - 780.00
Regular (until 31.05.2025): CHF 450.00 - 880.00
Late (until 15.06.2025): CHF 500.00 - 950.00
Shaping Tomorrow: Systems Thinking in the Built Environment
Releasing over 40% of global greenhouse gas emissions and consuming over 40% of primary resources, the built environment needs an urgent transformation towards climate neutrality and circularity while hosting a booming humanity in dignified conditions under climate change. Optimising individual solutions will not be sufficient to overcome these challenges. Instead, we must adopt systems thinking, which allows us to explore synergies and balance trade-offs between different building functions (safety, comfort, health, among others), scales (materials, components, buildings, cities, planet), sectors (industry, agriculture, energy, among others) and domains (economy, society, ecology).

The conference will address the following main themes:
-Integrated energy and resource use from buildings to territories
-Digital transformation for a systemic shift from a linear to a circular economy
-Economic models for a fast and efficient implementation of regenerative solutions
-Synergies of sustainable systems between environment, society, and economy

Contact

ETH Zurich

Inst. Bau-& Infrastrukturmanagement

Stefano-Franscini-Platz 1

8093 Zürich