The International Initiative for a Sustainable Built Environment
iiSBE is an international non-profit organization whose overall aim is to actively facilitate and promote the adoption of policies, methods and tools to accelerate the movement towards a global sustainable built environment.
- iiSBE has an international Board of Directors from almost every continent and has a small Secretariat located in Ottawa, Canada. We have Chapters in Austria, Canada, Czech Republic, Italy, Portugal, Malta and Taiwan;
- We operate as a low-overhead networking group that relies on volunteers;
- iiSBE is a member of the Global Alliance for Building and Construction (GABC)
- We are currently leading the organization of the SBE conference series;
- We are well known for the development of SBTool, a sophisticated but very flexible building performance assessment system;
- Our Italian Chapter is currently leading the way in the development of an assessment system suited to small urban areas, which is currently being tested in nine European urban areas.
See our website at iisbe.org