The World Green Building Congress will take place in June 2023 after the original date in 2020 had to be canceled. For three days, the congress in Berlin and online will cover all topics relating to green buildings. Read more here.
The World Green Building Congress will take place in June 2023 after the original date in 2020 had to be canceled. For three days, the congress in Berlin and online will cover all topics relating to green buildings. Read more here.
The World Green Building Congress will take place in Berlin from June 27 to 29, 2023. For three days, the focus will be on green roofs. In addition to roof, façade and interior greening, it will also cover related topics such as urban climate, rainwater management, sustainability and the city of the future. The congress will be accompanied by a trade exhibition in person. The exhibiting companies will also be offering information at the online event.
This is the first World Green Building Congress since 2017. Six years ago, the event also took place in Berlin. Over 800 participants from 44 countries took part. The hybrid event aims to build on this success in 2023 and reach even more people. The target group includes planners, contractors and local, state and federal politicians as well as investors and companies from the sector.
The program consists of two days of specialist congress and one day of excursions. Federal Building Minister Klara Geywitz has confirmed her patronage and a welcoming speech. The participation of State Secretary Dr. Silke Karcher from the Berlin Senate Department for the Environment, Mobility, Consumer and Climate Protection also shows the importance of the World Congress for politics.
Registration is still possible until May 26 at the standard rate. After that, bookings will change to the “late booking rate”.
The program with over 100 speakers from 29 countries has already been announced. The focus will be on global events in the field of building greening. On the very first day of the conference, people such as the Düsseldorf architect Christopher Ingenhoven and the French botanist Patrick Blanc will give keynote speeches. Federal Minister Klara Geywitz and State Secretary Dr. Silke Karcher will also give presentations on 27 June.
Five parallel lecture series are planned for the first two days of the congress. These include 90 lectures on current topics relating to the greening of buildings and their diverse, future-oriented applications, including practical examples.
On the third day of the World Congress, June 29, 2023, there will be excursions on the four main topics of green roofs, green facades, green interiors and green buildings. Various Berlin properties will serve as destinations. The number of participants is limited, which is why early registration is recommended.
These are some of the planned topics:
- Climate adaptation strategies
- sustainable building
- rainwater management
- biodiversity
- urban strategies for greening buildings
- cost-benefit considerations
In addition to the congress program, there will also be a trade exhibition in Berlin. This will provide an overview of various products, systems and services in the industry. Over 50 exhibiting companies and associations have already confirmed their participation, which means that the exhibition is almost fully booked.
In addition to the presentation of best-practice examples by experts from Germany and abroad, the exhibition will also focus on networking. Participants from planning, politics, cities, industry, real estate and associations will have the opportunity to expand their network.
The organizer of the World Green Building Congress is the Bundesverband GebäudeGrün e.V. (BuGG), supported by international green building associations from Austria and Switzerland as well as the World Green Infrastructure Network (WGIN) and the European Federation of Green Roof & Wall Associations. The Federal Association for Garden, Landscape and Sports Field Trees, Patzer Verlag and 23 congress and ten media partners are also supporting the event.
The organizers hope to build on the success of the last World Congress in 2017 and reach an even larger specialist audience. The three-day World Congress in September 2017 also took place in Berlin and, with 825 registered participants from 44 countries, was by far the largest congress on building greening held in Europe to date. 104 speakers from 21 countries and 49 exhibitors offered an unprecedented opportunity to obtain information on green roofs, façades and interiors.
The next congress was originally scheduled to take place in June 2020 and was almost fully prepared in February of that year. However, due to the coronavirus pandemic, it was necessary to postpone the congress. After a provisional date in 2021, it quickly became clear that it would not be possible to plan an event on site until 2023. As the interpersonal interaction, networking in person and the parallel organization of several workshops at once were important to the organizers, an online-only congress was concluded. The variant now planned is intended to combine online and face-to-face events. Tickets that have already been purchased remain valid.
