In 1994, an international green building conference was held in London. This was followed by an event in Paris in 1997 and then in Vancouver in 1998. These events were highly successful and attracted strong interest, and it was decided to establish a permanent series of sustainable building conferences, beginning with SB2000 in Maastricht and SB2002 in Oslo. All of these events have featured sessions focusing on environmental assessments of case-study buildings, and these have proven to be valuable and instructive.

In the series will be SB05, held in Tokyo, during September 27-29, 2005, and this was an event of global importance. In SB05, the Case Study Assessment sessions focused on assessment, implementation, and assessment results in leading edge buildings. The participants of the case study session demonstrated and illustrated design strategies and environmental assessment results.

This session provided a chance to exchange the latest knowledge and experience, and also provided an opportunity to discuss strategies on assessment, implementation in practice, and enhanced the movement of green and sustainable design in architectural communities all over the world.

The case study stream of seminars consisted of several presentation by various groups including Green Building Challenge (GBC) teams, and other teams or individuals from various regions and countries.

Presentations were of varying lengths, depending on the specific approach and the number of case studies included, and we therfore selected submissions and allocated time budgets in a two-stage process: a first call for preliminary presentation proposals, followed by an internal SB05 allocation of time budgets that was based on the number of projects, geographic representation, and our impression of the level of probable relevance for conference delegates.

Takenaka Corp. Tokyo Main Office
M. Koike, Y. Shiratori, K. Hirano
presentation material [pdf]