16/02/2016
We all know that world is facing an environment crisis. With tough carbon reduction targets, efforts to secure energy supply and mounting political uncertainty, energy on all its shapes has become a critical issue for governments, businesses, civil society and citizens.
In this context, AIIR (Romanian Association for Building Services Engineers - www.aiiro.ro) toghether with UTCB (Technical University for Civil Engineering – www.instalatii.utcb.ro) and OAER (Romania Energy Auditors Chamber – www.oaer.ro) is organising the 8th edition of the international conference RCEPB 2016 (www.rcepb.ro) gathering leaders from the academic, business and policy worlds to discuss the following special issues:
1. What are the key national factors for the success of the EU directives implementation (EPBD, EED, RES …) ?
2. What is the role of the public national institutions ?
3. Professional associations could they help for a more smooth transition to a green economy ?
4. What are the formation needs of the workers, technicians, engineers and experts for ensuring the high quality of future nZEBs, RES systems and energy related equipment for building services ?
5. How EU could benefit from the COP21 agreements ?
6. What incentives to embark on new energy infrastructure projects? Is the public on side ?
7. What are the key enablers and barriers to investment in the energy performance of buildings ?
8. What is the importance of EU funds for energy efficiency, at national states level ?
9. How can policy frameworks, business models and market design ensure that energy projects continue to attract investment ?
10. What is the new technologies role to achieve system efficiencies ?
Dates and Locations:
· Thursday, June 2nd (9:30am to 6:00pm), Bucharest, Technical University of Civil Engineering (TUCEB), Faculty of Building Systems Engineers (congress hall)
· Friday, June 3rd (9:30am to 14:00pm), Bucharest, Technical University of Civil Engineering (TUCEB), Faculty of Building Systems Engineers (congress hall)
All accepted extended abstracts and/or full-papers will be published in the conference proceedings (ISBN 978-606-25-0166-2 and/or ISSN 2068-3987).
The authors deadlines for RCEPB 2016 are the following:
February 19th - Extended abstracts submissions
March 7th - Notifications of acceptance for the extended abstract
April 4th - Full papers submissions
May 2nd - Notification of acceptance for the full paper
May 23rd - Presentation submission (pptx, ppt, pdf, prezi)
Official languages:
English and Romanian; simultaneous interpretation will be provided.
For more information, please visit our website: www.rcepb.ro.
If you accept our invitation, please submit to [email protected] and to [email protected] an extended abstract (see the template on rcepb.ro)
EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION - Until April 15th 2016
LATE REGISTRATION: - After May 26th 2016
Conference fees*:
·early bird registration - 55 Eur / 250 lei
·late registration - 110 Eur / 500 lei
·students and guest speakers - free of charge
· social program (trip to Bran Castle county, 2 nights)
- 150 Eur / 675 lei (no charge for international guests)
* The fees include the access to the lunch and cocktail, the promotional gifts and the conference documentation.
