Partners

Since its inception, the SBE conference series has been supported by three major organizations:

• The external page International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction (CIB)

• The external page International Federation of Consulting Engineers (FIDIC)

• The external page United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

• external page RILEM, the International Union of Laboratories and Experts in Construction Materials, Systems, and Structures, is co-sponsoring the event. As part of their support, RILEM will award a free one-year membership to up to five recipients of the Best Paper Awards.
  
  
• external page The International Initiative for a Sustainable Built Environment (iiSBE) is the original founder of the SBE conference series.

• external page Buildings & Cities is the historic partner of the SBE conference series. Buildings & Cities is an international, open-access, peer-reviewed, academic journal publishing high-quality research and analysis on the interplay between the different scales of the built environment: buildings, blocks, neighborhoods, cities, national building stocks, and infrastructures. It belongs to the first quartile of international scientific journals and is indexed in Scopus with an impact factor of 5.4. The journal focuses on built environment policy, practices and outcomes and the range of economic, environmental, political, social and technological issues occurring over the full life cycle.
  
  Thanks to this partnership, one best paper will have the possibility to submit a full paper to the journal without publishing fees.
  
  
• external page RILEM Technical Letters is an open-access, peer-reviewed, academic journal publishing high-quality research and analysis devoted to major innovative research or strategic research needs in the field of construction and building materials science. The format of the papers is aimed at fast communication of the breakthrough reports and reviews: short letters available online. It belongs to the first quartile of the International scientific journal, registered in Scopus with an impact factor of 3.8.
  
  Thanks to this partnership, one best paper will have the possibility to submit a full paper to the journal without publishing fees.
  
  
• The conference proceedings will be published by external page IOPscience as a special issue linked to the entire SBE conference series, enhancing the visibility and impact of the publications.