Sustainable Innovation 07
Global Building and Construction: Systems, Technologies, Products and
Services
12th International Conference
29th - 30th October 2007
Farnham Castle Conference Centre
Farnham, Surrey, UK

Part of the 'Towards Sustainable Product Design' series of conferences

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Background

Globally the building and construction sector has a major 
'environmental footprint', contributing over 40% of greenhouse gas 
emissions and generating high volumes of waste. Major projects such 
as the Olympics in Beijing (2008) and London (2012), the Thames 
Gateway in the UK and Dongtan Eco-city in China provide major 
opportunities to start to show a new way and integrate sustainability 
thinking from a systems level right through to ground-level. For 
example, recent research has indicated that three product groups 
cause 70% to 80% of total environmental impacts in cities and broader 
society:

* The home, and related energy use: buildings, heating, cooling and 
other energy using appliances
* Mobility: automobile and air transport
* Food: meat and dairy, followed by other types of food

Recognising this and designing-in sustainable consumption and 
production systems into new urban environments as first principles 
will substanially reduce negative impacts. New initiatives, 
creativity and a better focus will drive new innovations through the 
supply chain and mean that new technologies, products and services 
will be demanded with substanially better environmental and social 
performance. Should change be radical, incremental or a combination? 
Whatever, the scenario the development, commercialisation and 
integration of new solutions will be a major opportunity and 
challenge for designers, innovators and entrepreneurs.

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Concept

Sustainable Innovation 07 will provide a platform to discuss 'state 
of the thinking' in sustainable innovation, technology, product and 
service design and development. It will highlight best practice and 
provide a range of case studies and examples. Sustainable Innovation 
07 will include invited and refereed papers covering sustainable 
innovation from academics, consultants, designers, sustainability, 
environment and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) managers as 
well as other business functions. The event will be a unique learning 
experience and networking opportunity. Delegates will come globally 
from large companies, entrepreneurs and small and medium-sized 
(SMEs), as well as academia, government and non-governmental 
organisations (NGOs). The conference is supported by a leading-edge 
international Advisory Board.

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Conference topics

Sustainable Innovation 07 welcomes conceptual and research-based 
papers covering sustainable innovation, technology, product and 
service design and development and in particular those that address 
building and construction sectors. Papers relating to sustainable 
innovation focused on the following topics are welcomed:

* Sustainable Consumption & Production
* Market transformation
* Product policy
* Sustainable public procurement
* New business models
* Collaborations and partnerships
* Radical v incremental change
* Innovation processes
* Supply chain management
* Product-service-systems (PSS)
* Education and training
* Tools and techniques
* Management systems
* Organisational dimensions
* Performance measurement and metrics
* Newly industrialised and 'developing' country perspectives
* Case studies

Benefits to delegates of Sustainable Innovation 07 will include:

* Unique: forum for new ideas and concepts
* Leading-edge: presentations from key international researchers, 
practioners and policy-makers
* Research: access to new results and thinking
* Networking: opportunities to meet business, government and academia
* Track-record: over 1200 delegates from 35 countries have attended 
previous 'Towards Sustainable Product Design' conferences

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Submission details

Conference papers: please email, fax or post 500 words describing 
your proposed paper by 28 February 2007. The paper will then be sent 
to the Advisory Board for evaluation and authors will be given 
feedback by the end of April 2007. The highest rated papers will be 
invited to present at the conference.

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Contact

For more information on Sustainable Innovation 07 please contact:

Martin Charter, Director,
The Centre for Sustainable Design,
University College for the Creative Arts

Tel: + 44 (0) 1252 892772
Fax: + 44 (0) 1252 892747
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Website: www.cfsd.org.uk