Welcome to NSB 2020 Tallinn, 12th Nordic Symposium on Building Physics, in Tallinn, Estonia, 14-17 June 2020
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.
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
Deadline for full paper submission:
January 15, 2020
Conference registration opens:
November 1, 2019
Conference dates:
14 – 17 June, 2020
CONFERENCE FEES & REGISTRATION
Registration will be open from November 2019.
Registration fees | Early bird fee | Standard fee |
|---|---|---|
Until March 31, 2020 | From April 1, 2020 | |
Regular participant | 450€ | 480€ |
PhD student | 250€ | 280€ |
Gala Dinner | 70€ | 70€ |
Accompaning person | 90€ | 90€ |
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 14 June 2020 | Monday 15 June 2020 | Tuesday 16 June 2020 | Wednesday 17 June 2020 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
8:30 | Registration | |||
9:00 | Opening & Welcome | |||
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 | 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 | |||
Meetings (CIB,Projects, etc.) | ||||
18:00 | Welcome Reception | |||
19:00 | Scientific Committee Dinner
& PhD student event | Conference Dinner | ||
20:00 | ||||
21:00 | ||||
22:00 | ||||
To attend the full conference with minimum stay, we recommend to arrive to Tallinn on Sunday, June 14 afternoon and to leave on Wednesday, June 17 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.
VENUE & TRAVEL
The conference venue is Kultuurikatel that is universal creative hub and event center in downtown offering plentiful space for various events – conferences, galas, performances, concerts, exhibitions, festivats, fairs etc. Located in Põhja pst 27a, Kultuurikatel borders the center of Tallinn, Old Town and Kalamaja district.
Main distances:
600 meters from Port of Tallinn;
950 meters from Viru Gate and the center of Tallinn;
6,5 kilometers from the Tallinn Airport (tram connection).
Kultuurikatel is rebuilt from historic Tallinn City Central Power Station with very good location in downtown – within walking distance from conference hotels.
Main conference hall in Kultuurikatel.
There are plenty of hotels within walking distance from the conterence venue with different price level. Pre-booklngs will be made in some selected hotels for conterence delegates which information will be published in due time.
ORGANIZERS AND CONTACTS
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
Please see the list of Scientific Committee.
NSB 2020 TALLINN, @Tallinn University of Technology, nsb2020@taltech.ee