"Clean Technology for Smart Cities and Buildings" is the topic of the international conference CISBAT to take place in the Swiss lakeside city of Lausanne from 4 to 6 September 2013.

The conference will offer a platform for interdisciplinary dialog and presentations of innovative research and development in the field of sustainability in the built environment, covering a wide range of subjects from solar nanotechnologies to the simulation of buildings and urban areas.

CISBAT 2013 is pleased to invite specialists from academic institutions, industry and public institutions worldwide to present their innovative work. The call for papers has yielded 280 abstracts and is now closed. To be on the mailing list, please subscribe to the newsletter or send an email to cisbat@epfl.ch.

Hosting the conference for the 12th time, the Solar Energy and Building Physics Laboratory of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne is known internationally for high-level research in the domain of building physics and sustainability in the built environment.

Academic partners of the conference are specialists from University of Cambridge and MIT, backed by a strong international scientific committee.

Conference Chair

Dr. Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Director of EPFL Solar Energy and Building Physics Laboratory