Welcome to NSB 2020 Tallinn, 12th Nordic Symposium on Building Physics, in Tallinn, Estonia, 7-9 September 2020
7 – 9 September 2020 new dates for NSB 2020 have been confirmed. There are two options how to attend the conference: either to attend a virtual conference with video presentation or to attend a live conference on site with somewhat smaller social program. Virtual and live conference packages are open for registration. At the same time, we still expect that many of you can travel to Tallinn in September.
ORGANIZERS
Jarek Kurnitski
jarek.kurnitski@taltech.ee
Targo Kalamees
targo.kalamees@taltech.ee
Merili Deemant
nsb2020@taltech.ee
Meeli Semjonov
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:
7 – 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?
INSTUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS
Instructions for long virtual presentations and reminders for a successful video call
Instructions for short virtual presentations
For information: we will not have a separate conference proceedings on the conference webpage. All the presentations will be in E3S and we will link it to the NSB2020 conference website.
CONFERENCE FEES & REGISTRATION
VIRTUAL NSB2020 TICKETS
Registration fees | Early bird fee | Standard fee |
|---|---|---|
Until June 28, 2020 | From June 29, 2020 | |
Virtual presenting author | 200€ | 250€
|
Virtual regular participant | 150€ | 200€ |
LIVE (ONSITE) NSB2020 TICKETS
Registration fees | Early bird fee | Standard fee |
|---|---|---|
Until June 28, 2020 | From June 29, 2020 | |
MAIN PACKAGE | ||
Live regular participant | 540€ | 576€ |
Live PhD student | 300€ | 336€ |
Live one day package | 240€ | 300€ |
ADDITIONAL EVENTS | ||
Gala Dinner | 66€ | 66€ |
The registration fee for the live NSB2020 covers admission to all sessions, coffee breaks and lunches. Please note that VAT 20% is included in the registration fee.
Payment, cancellation and upgrading terms:
- The registration and fee payment deadline for corresponding authors: 28 June 2020.
- Each paper has to have at least one paying author.
- The registration of participation is binding.
- The registration and fee payment deadline for others: 24 August 2020.
- It is possible to upgrade virtual conference participation to live conference until 24 August 2020. When you want to upgrade then please write a request to nsb2020@taltech.ee.
- The participation fees are owed upon registration and are payable within 7 days following submission of the registration (but not later than 24 August 2020).
- If you have to cancel the registration, you get 80% back until 30 days before the start of the event (till 8 August 2020).
- If you have to downgrade your live conference ticket to virtual conference ticket, you get 80% back from the differece until 30 days before the start of the event (till 8 August 2020). When you want to downgrade then please write a request to nsb2020@taltech.ee.
- No refunds will be made for cancellations and for ticked downgrades made after 8 August 2020 and for no-shows
- Participation is not guaranteed until full payment of the registration fee is received.
- When we need to cancel the live conference and conference will take place only virtual, then we will refund the difference between the virtual and live ticket fee.
PROGRAMME & SOCIAL EVENTS
To attend the full conference with minimum stay, we recommend to arrive to Tallinn on Sunday, September 6 evening and to leave on Wednesday, September 9 evening.
Detailed conference program with titles of presentations can be found here:
MONDAY
7 September
Time | Session I | Session II | Session III | Session IV |
|---|---|---|---|---|
8.00 | Registration | |||
9.00 – 9.30 | Opening and welcome | |||
9.30 – 10.30 | Plenary I | |||
10.30 – 11.00 | Tea & coffee break | |||
11.00 – 12.30 | Interior insulation | Climate change and buildings | Cooling and overheating | – |
12.30 – 13.30 | Lunch | |||
13.30 – 15.00 | Moisture modelling | Air leakage | Indoor climate | – |
15.00 – 15.30 | Tea & coffee break | |||
15.30 – 17.00 | Moisture performance of structures | Multidimensional modelling, Thermal bridges | Ventilation performance | – |
17.00 – 20.00 | Free time | |||
20.00 – 23.00 | Conference dinner | |||
TUESDAY
8 September
Time | Session I | Session II | Session III | Session IV |
|---|---|---|---|---|
8.00 | Registration | |||
9.00 – 10.30 | Plenary II | |||
10.30 – 11.00 | Tea & coffee break | |||
11.00 – 12.30 | Moisture safety and CLT | Hygrothermal boundary conditions | Heating, DHW | NERO workshop |
12.30 – 13.30 | Lunch | |||
13.30 – 15.00 | Material properties measurement | Historical buildings | Passive, active and nZEB buildings | Hygrothermal and Airtightness of lightweight metal constructions workshop |
15.00 – 15.30 | Tea & coffee break | |||
15.30 – 17.00 | Moisture measurements | Renovation of buildings | Architectural aspects | – |
17.00 – 19.00 | Free time | |||
19.00 – 22.00 | Scientific Committee dinner | |||
WEDNESDAY
9 September
Time | Session I | Session II | Session III | Session IV |
|---|---|---|---|---|
8.00 | Registration | |||
9.00 – 10.30 | Plenary III | |||
10.30 – 11.00 | Tea & coffee break | |||
11.00 – 12.30 | Microbial damage | Advanced building envelope | Building energy performance assessment based on in situ measurements (including IEA Annex 71) | What is needed to optimize energy in housing |
12.30 – 13.30 | Lunch | |||
13.30 – 15.00 | Moisture damage and durability | Facade and window design | Energy performance of buildings | – |
15.00 – 15.30 | Tea & coffee break | |||
15.30 – 17.00 | Closing sessions | |||
17.00 – 20.00 | Meetings (CIB, Projects, etc.) | |||
SOCIAL EVENTS INCLUDE
Conference dinner
Scientific committee dinner (included in the conference fee)
Tallinn University of Technology
Glehn´s Castle, built 1886.
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
The conference venue is Innovation and Business Center Mektory in Tallinn University of Technology.
TalTech is the only campus-type university in the Baltic countries and one of the most compact university campuses in Europe.
Mektory is located in Raja 15, 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
