Welcome to NSB 2020 Tallinn, 12th Nordic Symposium on Building Physics, in Tallinn, Estonia, 6-9 September 2020
As you may notice, COVID-19 pandemic has made travel arrangements impossible because of travel restrictions in many countries and organisations. We have decided to move NSB 2020 according to recommendations of authorities to be held after summer holidays. New dates for NSB 2020 are 6 – 9 September 2020. We are sorry for inconvenience if somebody already has made bookings and hope that these can be rebooked in such force majeure situation.
ORGANIZERS
Jarek Kurnitski
jarek.kurnitski@taltech.ee
Targo Kalamees
targo.kalamees@taltech.ee
Merili Deemant
nsb2020@taltech.ee
Arranged every third year since 1987, this conference is the biggest and longest international conference in Building Physics. Organised in Nordic countries, the conference is not limited to cold climate and has grown to attract participants from all over the world so that over half of participants are from other countries. NSB 2020 Tallinn team works hard to make this event attractive both for scientists, practitioners, PhD students and other building professionals.
This is no fairytale. This is the capital city, Tallinn.
This building physics conference focuses on the heat, air and moisture transfer in buildings, and on aspects in microbiology, building services and energy performance linked or strongly interacting with building physics.
Two types of conference papers are welcomed:
- Scientific Scopus conference papers with recommended length of 6-8 pages;
- Technical papers not necessarily applying scientific methods, dealing with case studies, project introductions or other practical questions with recommended length of 2-6 pages.
Both types of papers will undergo the review process by the scientific committee, however with different criteria.
Scientific papers will be published in E3S Web of Conferences and indexed in Scopus and other databases including attribution of DOI Names and indexation to CrossRef®.
Building envelope systems
- Hygrothermal performance of building envelope
- Advanced building envelope systems
- Air-tightness, pressure differences and air movement
- Building materials and components
- Climate change and climate adaptation of buildings
Fundamentals and modelling techniques
- Heat and moisture transport
- Moisture convection
- Contaminant transfer (gas phase, microbes, PM etc)
- Material properties
- Measuring, simulation and modelling techniques
- Outdoor and indoor climate for building physics analysis
Integrated aspects of building physics
- Architectural design integration
- Interaction with HVAC systems
- Daylight and solar shading
- Integrated BIM solutions for building physic and energy performance
- Construction skills for building physic and energy performance
- Passive, active and low energy buildings
- Zero, plus-energy, and zero emission buildings
- Historical buildings
Moisture safety, mould and dampness
- Moisture and mould problems
- Investigation methods of moisture and microbial damage
- Consulting experience and practice
- Repair methods and techniques
- Moisture safety in design, construction, and maintenance
- Durability of materials and structures
- Retrofitting and conservation of buildings
IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for abstract submission:
September 30, 2019
Notification of abstract acceptance:
October 31, 2019
Conference registration opens:
November 1, 2019
Paper submission deadline:
March 31, 2020
Camera-ready revised final paper:
April 30, 2020
Early bird registration deadline:
June 28, 2020
Conference dates:
6 – 9 September, 2020
TUESDAY 08.09.2020
Kristina Mjörnell
RISE, Lund University, Sweden
Moisture safety control methods for design and construction of buildings
Jan Carmeliet
ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Multiscale zoom into moisture sorption and fluid transport: a step towards design of new porous materials?
Please submit your paper via the link ConfTool
Please follow exactly the format of the NSB2020_template.
Layout changes are not accepted and are to be corrected before the paper can be published. Recommended length is:
- 6-8 pages for scientific papers
- 2-6 pages for technical papers
CONFERENCE FEES & REGISTRATION
Registration fees | Early bird fee | Standard fee |
|---|---|---|
Until June 28, 2020 | From June 29, 2020 | |
Regular participant | 450€ | 480€ |
PhD student | 250€ | 280€ |
Gala Dinner | 55€ | 55€ |
Accompanying person | 90€ | 90€ |
One day package | 200€ | 250€ |
The registration fee for the NSB2020 covers Welcome Reception and admission to all sessions including conference bag with conference material, coffee breaks and lunches. Please note that VAT 20% will be added to the registration fee.
PROGRAMME & SOCIAL EVENTS
Sunday 6 September 2020 | Monday 7 September 2020 | Tuesday 8 September 2020 | Wednesday 9 September 2020 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
8:00 | Registration | |||
9:00 | Opening & Welcome | |||
10:00 | Keynote session | Keynote session | Keynote session | |
11:00 | Tea & coffee break | Tea & coffee break | Tea & coffee break | |
12:00 | Parallel sessions | Parallel sessions | Parallel sessions | |
13:00 | Guided tours | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch |
14:00 | Parallel sessions | Parallel sessions | Parallel sessions | |
15:00 | Tea & coffee break | Tea & coffee break | Tea & coffee break | |
16:00 | Parallel sessions | Parallel sessions | Closing sessions | |
17:00 | Registration | |||
18:00 | Welcome Reception | Meetings (CIB, Projects, etc.) | ||
19:00 | Conference Dinner | Scientific Committee Dinner &
PhD student event | ||
20:00 | ||||
21:00 | ||||
22:00 | ||||
To attend the full conference with minimum stay, we recommend to arrive to Tallinn on Sunday, September 6 afternoon and to leave on Wednesday, September 9 evening.
SOCIAL EVENTS WILL INCLUDE:
- Welcome reception (included in the conference fee)
- Conference dinner
- PhD student event (included in the conference fee)
- Scientific committee dinner (included in the conference fee)
Welcomer reception and conference dinner will be held in another historic or attractive Tallinn downtown venues, such as House of the Brotherhood of Black Heads and Town Hall. For accompanying persons guided tours will be offered.
House of the Brotherhood of Black Heads.
The oldest town hall in Northern Europe, built 1404.
PRE-CONFERENCE TOURS
Accomanying Person Tour
For useful advice and inspiration on Tallinn’s top attractions, activities, events, and places to eat and drink, check out the city’s official tourism portal, visittallinn.ee, or follow @VisitTallinn on social media
VENUE & TRAVEL
TalTech is the only campus-type university in the Baltic countries and one of the most compact university campuses in Europe.
The conference venue is Tallinn University of Technology. TalTech is located in Ehitajate tee 5, Tallinn. Free bus transfers and free public transport will be provided between Tallinn City Centre and conference venue.
We have reserved a limited amount of rooms for the NSB 2020 participants in the following hotels. Please book your stay at a special rate directly with the hotel using the promotional code.
Tallinn University of Technology
Center of Excellence in Zero Energy and Resource Efficient Smart Buildings and Districts (ZEBE)
Past
Conferences
NSB has been arranged every third year since 1987, making this conference the biggest and longest international conference in Building Physics. Organised in Nordic countries, the conference is not limited to cold climate and has grown to attract participants from all over the world so that more than half of participants have been typically from other countries.
Lund 1987
Trondheim 1990
Copenhagen 1993
Espoo 1996
Gothenburg 1999
Trondheim 2002
Reykjavik 2005
Copenhagen 2008
Tampere 2011
Lund 2014
https://www.nsb2014.se/
Trondheim 2017
https://www.ntnu.edu/web/nsb2017/home
NSB 2020 TALLINN, @Tallinn University of Technology, nsb2020@taltech.ee
