The conference aims to bring together researchers and government and industry professionals to discuss the future of energy in buildings, neighbourhoods and cities from a theoretical, practical, implementation and simulation perspective. The conference will be an exciting chance to present, interact, and learn about the latest research in Sustainability in Energy and Buildings.

Applicable areas include: 

• sustainable design of buildings, neighbourhoods and cities (built and natural environment);
• optimisation and modelling techniques;
• smart energy systems for smart cities;
• green information communications technology;
• solar, wind, wave and other renewable energy topics.

The conference proceedings will be published by Springer as book chapters in a volume of the KES Smart Innovation Systems and Technologies series.