Fit for 2050: Delivering Net Zero, Intelligent, and Resilient Built Environments.
Paper submissions for the 2027 CIBSE Technical Symposium open on 8 May and close on 16 June 2026.
The 2027 Symposium at Brunel University, London (8 - 9 April) will bring together engineers, researchers, policymakers, and industry leaders to explore how the built environment can meet the defining challenges of the coming decades.
At the heart of the symposium lies a central question: How can building services engineers accelerate the delivery of net-zero, intelligent, and resilient built environments?
Join us in April 2027 to share insights, innovations, and experiences that will help shape the next generation of buildings and engineering practice.
2027 Submission Topics
Paper submission for the 2027 CIBSE Technical Symposium runs 8 May to 16 June. CIBSE is accepting submissions related to the theme Fit for 2050: Delivering Net Zero, Intelligent, and Resilient Built Environments.
Engineering strategies for achieving operational net zero energy and carbon.
Applications of AI, machine learning, digital twins, and analytics in design, operation, and optimisation, including emerging autonomous or self-optimising systems.
Engineering strategies that ensure buildings remain safe, comfortable and operational under future climate conditions, including environmental and resource constraints.
Integration with electricity networks, demand response, storage, and flexible energy systems.
Advances in sensing, interoperability, control systems, and data-driven building operation, including the development and application of open data standards.
International research, policy frameworks and engineering approaches.
Engineering solutions for retrofit and large-scale building stock transformation.
Closing the performance gap through monitoring, verification, benchmarking, and data-driven optimisation.
Heat pumps, district energy networks, ambient loops and emerging low-carbon technologies.
Reducing embodied carbon in building services systems and enabling circular approaches.
Balancing decarbonisation with indoor environmental quality and occupant wellbeing.
Exploring the evolution of building services engineering roles, including ethics, professional standards, education, and the cross-disciplinary skills required to deliver a sustainable, safe and high-performing built environment.
We also welcome submissions on other topics that are related to the overarching theme of the symposium 'Fit for 2050: Delivering Net Zero, Intelligent, and Resilient Built Environments'
We invite 250-word abstracts for the submission of research, opinion, and review papers, case studies, and poster presentations that are based on recent or current project work, research, or applications, as well as those that examine actual or potential impacts of our work in the built environment.
Please use the online form to submit your 250-word abstract for your proposed research, opinion, or review paper, case study, or poster presentation.
If you have any further questions, please email [email protected]
Submission types include:
Submissions open 8 May
Papers represent original research, application (including full case studies) or development and should be between 3000 and 5000 words.
A slide-based report of a specific application (typically relating to the performance of a specific engineering or environmental system) that is likely to include both qualitative and quantitative investigation. If accepted, the final case study should include brief keynotes for the audience.
Posters provide the opportunity to summarise information of research, application or case study concisely and share your work and generate discussion. This will be presented in a dedicated session together with other posters for delegates to view. A poster can be accompanied by a written paper, and there are optional opportunities to provide a four-minute compendiary 'poster pitch' presentation (see below) to all delegates in a plenary session.
Accepted papers, reviews, case studies, and opinions will normally be delivered as part of a symposium session with a presentation of approximately 15 minutes (plus Q&A).
The compendiary 'Poster Pitch' is a limited availability option to present a four-minute fast-track highlights presentation with limited slides to a plenary session of all delegates. This is available to those who have been commissioned to provide a poster.
A paper that summarises the current state of understanding on a topic between 2000 and 5000 words. This is likely to include information that has been drawn from previously published studies.
This provides an opportunity to present a brief, justified opinion that should recognise contrary opinions or arguments and be supported with appropriate evidence and would be typically between 1000 and 3000 words.