About The Conference

Ain Shams University – Department of Urban Planning, the German University in Cairo – Architecture and Urban Design, together with the international partner the State Academy of Art and Design Stuttgart are pleased to invite you to submit papers to the SB13 Cairo Conference.

SB13 Cairo is part of the Regional Sustainable Building (SB) conference series and the first to be held in Egypt, North Africa, and the Middle East. Due to Egypt's prime and strategic central location; SB13 Cairo adds a comprehensive dimension to the World Conference SB14 to take place in Barcelona in 2014.

The new era of democratic transition in Egypt raises aspirations and expectations vis-à-vis sustainable communities. This requires revolutionising the way of thinking and planning to proactively address local, national, and regional challenges taking into consideration the international perspective. Nonetheless, the global climate change phenomenon and the sustainable building agenda represent a major challenge not only for developing sustainable communities, but more importantly, managing the development of the socio-economic landscape.

SB13 Cairo is a timely opportunity to bring scholars, practitioners, and industry professionals together to share knowledge, experiences, and seek practical solutions for the benefit of current as well as future generations.

Conference Goal

The goal is to redefine urban challenges in light of the democratic transition of the society and to capture knowledge and best practice with the target of prioritising and mapping innovative solutions to local, regional, and international challenges. This is achieved through four main subthemes to investigate integrated planning and implementation policies, to explore potentials for incorporating new/alternative energy technologies on the urban and architectural scale, to govern the successful implementation through local governance and capacity building; and finally to demonstrate state-of-the-art knowledge through real life innovative practical solutions for disseminating and sharing lessons learnt.

The anticipated outcome of the conference aims to join forces and find common grounds within the regional and international context.