From 19-20 October 2010 both international and Swedish professionals and city officials will be brought together at Building Sustainability, Stockholm 2010, a conference on cutting edge sustainable building projects.

With Stockholm crowned the first European Green Capital by the European Commission, the Building Sustainability Conference will bring together city officials from inside and outside of Europe, with city planners, investors, developers working on sustainable building projects. The emphasis will be on successful planning initiatives and the cooperative aspect that lies behind several successful development projects in Stockholm.

The programme includes lectures from Swedish and international speakers on topics concerning green sustainability from an urban development perspective. Among the topics on the agenda are urban planning, energy efficient and sustainable construction, retrofitting of aging buildings and neighbourhoods, energy supply systems, water supply, sewage and waste disposal and innovative financing of sustainable investments. Also included in the programme are study tours to various parts of Stockholm which showcase the progress that has been made towards green urban solutions.

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