3 September 2025
Conference Day 1Opening of the conference
Prof. Marilyne Andersen, Conference Chair
The challenge of Decarbonising the Swiss Building Sector
Andreas Eckmanns, Swiss Federal Office of Energy, Head of Research for Buildings
Living in consumption corridors: housing sufficiency for sustainable wellbeing
Marlyne Sahakian, Associate Professor of Sociology of Consumption and Sustainability at University of Geneva
Rethinking Concrete Construction: From research to practice
Philippe Block, Professor of Architecture and Structures, Block Research Group, ETHZ and director of the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) on Digital Fabrication
Coffee break
Heating & cooling 1
Indoor air quality, health and productivity
Life cycle analysis
Lunch
Heating & cooling 2
Daylighting & Artificial lighting
Materials, urban metabolism
& regenerative planning
Radical rapid paths to net zero housing via mutually reinforcing actions
Coffee break
Predictive & adaptive control
Controls & occupant behaviour
Renewable energy
Beyond the Start: Achieving Long-Term Personalized Environmental Control Systems Success
Evening networking event in the Restaurant of the Olympic Museum
4 September 2025
Conference Day 2Prof. Marilyne Andersen, Conference Chair
Towards a thriving economy within planetary boundaries
Jean-Pierre Danthine, Honorary Director of Enterprise for Society E4S, Switzerland
The invisible variables in a diverse world: Gender and culture in sustainable built environment research
Ronita Bardhan, Associate Professor of Sustainable Built Environment at the University of Cambridge, Director - Cambridge Sustainable Design Group
Coffee break
Urban scale energy management Part I
Thermal comfort in buildings
Circular design, re-use and recycle
Cumulative Multidomain Research: Progress & Future
Lunch
Urban scale energy management Part II
Thermal comfort in urban spaces
Digital platforms for energy performance
Decarbonise with CEA Series 4: What's Next?
Coffee break
Awards: Best paper | Best poster
Roundtable moderated by Prof. Marilyne Andersen
Panelists:Sylvain Grisot, Urban Planner, Founder of Dixit.net, France; Julia Binder, Professor of Sustainable Innovation and Business Transformation, IMD, Switzerland Dirk Hebel, Professor of Sustainable Construction and the Dean of the Department of Architecture at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Networking Aperitif
5 September 2025
Conference Day 3(to be completed)
3 September 2025
Conference Day 1Opening of the conference
Prof. Marilyne Andersen, Conference Chair
Net Zero Buildings in Switzerland
Andreas Eckmanns, Swiss Federal Office of Energy, Head of Research for Buildings
Living in consumption corridors: housing sufficiency for sustainable wellbeing
Marlyne Sahakian, Associate Professor of Sociology of Consumption and Sustainability at University of Geneva
Rethinking Concrete Construction: From research to practice
Philippe Block, Professor of Architecture and Structures, Block Research Group, ETHZ and director of the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) on Digital Fabrication
Coffee break
Heating & cooling 1
Indoor air quality, health and productivity
Life cycle analysis
Lunch break
Heating & cooling 2
Daylighting & Artificial lighting
Materials, urban metabolism
& regenerative planning
Coffee break
Predictive & adaptive control
Controls & occupant behaviour
Renewable energy
4 September 2025
Conference Day 2Prof. Marilyne Andersen, Conference Chair
Towards a thriving economy within planetary boundaries
Jean-Pierre Danthine, Honorary Director of Enterprise for Society E4S, Switzerland
The invisible variables in a diverse world: Gender and culture in sustainable built environment research
Ronita Bardhan, Associate Professor of Sustainable Built Environment at the University of Cambridge | Director - Cambridge Sustainable Design Group
Coffee break
Urban scale energy management Part I
Thermal comfort in buildings
Circular design, re-use and recycle
Radical rapid paths to net zero housing via mutually reinforcing actions
Lunch break
Urban scale energy management Part II
Thermal comfort in urban spaces
Digital platforms for energy performance
Coffee break
Awards: Best paper | Best poster
Roundtable moderated by Prof. Marilyne Andersen
Panelists:Sylvain Grisot, Urban Planner, Founder of Dixit.net, France; Julia Binder, Professor of Sustainable Innovation and Business Transformation, IMD, Switzerland Dirk Hebel, Professor of Sustainable Construction and the Dean of the Department of Architecture at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
