Call for Presentations

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Please review the followings before submitting.

Please email your proposal to icsdec2012@gmail.com.

Please download Technical Submission Template here, and email proposal to icsdec2012@gmail.com.

Please review Technical Presentation Requirements here before submission.

Deadlines:

Call for Presentations                              January 11, 2012

Deadline for Presentation Proposals            June 10, 2012

Presentation Acceptance Notification         June 25, 2012

Presenter Confirmation Acceptance            July 16, 2012

Presentation Upload to Conference            October 07, 2012

Call for Presentations

The 2012 International Conference on Sustainable Design, Engineering, & Construction is initiating its Call for Presentations for the 2nd Annual Conference. This year’s theme is “Applying Industry knowledge, experience, tools & trends to deliver Sustainable Design, Engineering, and Construction Solutions”.

This year’s conference will be held at the Worthington Renaissance Fort Worth Hotel Located in the Historic Sundown Square downtown Fort Worth, Texas, just moments from the Fort Worth Stockyards, Museum District, Cowboys Stadium, Texas Motor Speedway, DFW Airport, Amon Carter Museum and Texas Christian University (TCU). The conference will be conducted in the Worthington Renaissance Fort Worth Hotel. Deemed "The Star of Texas", the Worthington is Fort Worth's original AAA Four-Diamond luxury hotel.

The 2012 International Conference for Sustainable Design, Engineering, & Construction (ICSDEC) brings together international business leaders, professionals, academics, and policy-makers in industry, urban planning, behavioral sciences, politics, architecture, engineering and contracting to share ideas and achievements relative to sustainable design, engineering, and construction of infrastructure and buildings.

The 2012 ICSDEC Conference provides a forum for exchanging ideas, concepts, new technologies, prominent exhibition projects and visions for the future. The conference will consist of plenary talks, invited talks, panel discussions, workshops, paper sessions, presentations, poster sessions and exhibitions. The conference provides a unique collaborative opportunity among academia, industry and policy-makers in the areas of sustainable design and engineering for construction projects.

Get Involved

The ICSDEC is now soliciting a Call for Presentations to presenters for the 2012 conference. Share your innovation and experience, by organizing and sharing your knowledge, expertise, and solutions in sustainable infrastructure and buildings to one of this year’s best conference collaborative programs.   

Technical Tracks:

The 2012 International Conference for Sustainable Design, Engineering, & Construction (ICSDEC) will feature three tracks for technical presentations.

Tracks:

Infrastructure

Green Building

Sustainability Issues & Advocacy

Technical Presentation Focus Areas:

The 2012 International Conference for Sustainable Design, Engineering, & Construction (ICSDEC) will feature the following Industry Presentation Focus Areas:

Focus Areas: Design-Engineering-Construction

Sustainable Infrastructure

Sustainable Construction Practices

Sustainable Tools & Software (Project & Program Management, Procurement, Energy & Emissions Tracking)

Urban Planning

Sustainable Procurement

Sustainable Data & Transparency

Green Codes, Regulations, & Standards

Legal & Accounting Assessments 

Technical Presentation Forums:

The 2012 International Conference for Sustainable Design, Engineering, & Construction (ICSDEC) encourages unique and exciting presentation forums to facilitate the best communication and learning environment.

Presentation Forums:


Panel Sessions: Session moderator with up to three engaging speakers developing and supporting a key topic of theme.

 

Awards & Recognition:  Present award or recognition for exemplary actions demonstrating sustainable leadership, and stewardship by individuals, projects, companies, groups, organizations, suppliers, designers, constructors, and communities.

 

Classroom Environment:  Present a sustainability class learning lesson; identify learning objectives, materials, worked examples and homework for the participants to complete after the conference.

 

Workshops:  Lead a workshop that provides knowledge, innovation, best techniques, use of tools, scales results, identifies limitations, and prepares the participant to start the next hands on sustainable project.

 

"Top 10":  The "Top 10" designation serves notice that something special, limited, coveted, or disgraced has been assessed and quantified. Develop a top 10 presentation that addresses vital aspects of Sustainable Design, Construction, & Engineering. Will your audience agree?

 

Debate:  Sustainability policies, values, facts, and perspectives exist that are neither trivial or without consequence that passionate and disciplined speakers can debate. Debate provides one of the oldest & most compelling forums to attend.

Technical Topics:

The 2012 International Conference for Sustainable Design, Engineering, & Construction (ICSDEC) has selected the following topics as relevant and compelling. Topics may be combined based on relational and important coexisting aspects.

 

Appling Lessons Learned

Benchmarking

Best Practices

BIM in Construction

BIM in Design

BIM Tools

Biomimicry

Brownfield Revitalization

Building Management

Building Performance Measurement

Bus & Train rapid Transit

Campus/District Planning

Canals and Water Communities

Carbon Footprint Analysis

Cities on a Mission

Citizenship

City Landscape

Clean technologies

Climate Change

Climate Change Adaptation

Coats, Oceans, Ports, Rivers

Commitment Challenges

Community Design

Community Low Impact Construction

Community Showcase

Compliance Management System

Construction Green Cleaning

Construction Recycling Services

Contract Language

Contracting Sustainable

Coordinating with Green Providers

Courtroom Decisions

 

 

Cradle to Cradle Materials

CSR Reporting

Cultural & Regional Considerations

Federal Gov Green Mandates

Federal Government Impacts

Financial Modeling

Forensics

Forest Landscapes

Forestry Products Design

Geomatics

GHG Calculations & Tools

Green Building Codes

Green Campus

Green Designers & Consumers

Green Generation

Green Homes

Green Investment

Green Job Training

Green Leases

Green Real Estate Management

Green Workforce

Greenwashing

Historic Preservation

Human Health

Human Rights

Master Planning

Micro Communities Development

Model Cities

Municipal Planning

Municipal Toolbox

Nature Showcase

Neighborhood

 

 

Net Zero

Nexus Energy-Water

Nexus Water-Land Use

Pending & Future Legislation

Performance Metrics

Pickers and the Reuse Revolution

Pilot Projects

Political Future

Pre-Project Planning

Product Responsibility

Product Specification

Professional Credentials

Professional Societies

Protecting our Groundwater

Rainwater Use

Real Estate

Sustainable Concrete Design

Sustaining the Baby Boomers

Systems and Strategies

Tall Buildings

Technology Retrofits

Toxicity in the Build Environment

Transforming your practice

Transparency in Design

Trends & Signals in the Marketplace

Urban Agriculture

Urban Landscape

Wall Street & Sustainable Investment

Waste Prevention

Water Conservation/Mgmt

Water Reuse