From 05/07/2022 to 07/07/2022

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Rome

Italy

Minimizing the negative impact of buildings on the environment has been one of the main concerns of sustainable development that has surfaced over the past few decades. Sustainable architecture and planning are defined to ensure that our current use of available resources does not end up depleting the resources for the future. As Numerous architectural and planning strategies have been developed over time to meet today’s needs without endangering the needs of the future generations, such as, controlling urban sprawl, increase the dependency on renewable energy, Implementation of sustainable building materials, and many other aspects concerned with sustainable development. Sustainable Architecture aims to increase the efficiency of energy usage over the entire life cycle of a building. Architects implement renewable energy resources as a mean to enhance their buildings and reduce the negative impacts on its surrounding environment, as one of the many sustainable approaches to improve the quality of life for the users. Whether it is the designing of a building, planning a city or even reconstructing of an existent urban environment, having a sustainable outcome has become the main focus of today’s urban planning. Seeing that, it results in an efficient and moderate use of materials, energy, development space, and the ecosystem as a whole. Despite the importance of materials to overall building sustainability, quantifying and evaluating the sustainability of building materials has proven difficult which is why it is an important part of modern and sustainable development that emphasizes on resources optimization.

The Conference adopts double-blind peer review process

English

Architectural Design, Architecture, Buildings, City, Design, Environment, Environmental Sustainability, Green Buildings, Green Materials, Health & Wellbeing, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Materials, Planning, Renewable Energy, Renewable Resources, Sustainability, Sustainable Construction, Sustainable Design, Sustainable Development, Sustainable Energy, Sustainable Materials, Urban Design, Urban Development, Urban Infrastructures, Urban Planning

IEREK | International Experts for Research Enrichment and Knowledge Exchange

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Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation | IEREK Interdisciplinary Series for Sustainable Development

Scopus, EBSCOhost, OCLC WorldCat, Google Scholar, SemanticScholar

Springer, IEREK Press

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