Invited Lectures
Several internationally renowned scholars have been invited as the plenary session speakers of COBEE 2008. Their topics of presentations are:

	Understanding Human Exposure to Air Pollutants in the Built Environment		Energy and Environment in Chinese Rural Housing: Road to Sustainability
Prof. William Nazaroff University of California at Berkeley, USA		Prof. Xudong Yang Tsinghua University, China
	Sustainable Building Design		Ventilation and health in built environment
Prof. Koen Steemers Cambridge University,UK		Prof. Yuguo Li University of HongKong, China

 

Papers
COBEE 2008 has received 600 abstracts from 33 countries and regions. The abstracts have been reviewed by the International Scientific Committee and invited experts. Decisions on the abstracts have been mailed to the authors. If the COBEE paper authors still have not received the abstract review results, please contact the conference secretary through cobee2008@gmail.com ASAP. Your email system might have blocked the notice email or your provided email address is wrong. The contributing papers will be presented either by oral or by poster presentations.

Workshops and Forums
Several workshops and forums are being organized to discuss ad hoc topics that fall within the general scope of COBEE. The workshops are to initiate research collaborations or to report the progress of collaborated research. The workshops will have presentations (with or without papers) that summarize state-of-the-art research or current research progress. There will be ample time to discuss the results and plan for future collaboration or next phase research. The forums are to discuss challenges and opportunities in building energy and environment. Each forum has several presentations (with or without papers) and ample time for discussion.

The topics of the workshops and forums proposed are:
1. Sustainable and Advance Built Enviroment-A Singapore Experience
    Chair:Tan Eng Khiam
    National University of Singapore, Singapore
2. Multifunctional facades and building structures-performance prediction      and validation.
    Chair:Marja Todorovic
    University of Belgrade, Serbia
3. Inverse tracking of indoor pollutant
    Chair:Qingyan Chen
    Purdue University, USA
4. HVAC design for high-rise residential buildings
    Chair:Jianlei Niu
    Hong Kong Polytechnic University,China
5. Balance between Energy Use and Indoor Environmental Quality
    Co-chair: Yuanhui Zhang
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,USA
    Co-chair: Jamie Bennett
    National institute for Occupational Safety and Health, USA
6. IAQ Problems in China: Current Status and Future Perspective
    Co-chair: Qingyan Chen
    Purdue University, USA
    Co-chair: Guoqiang Zhang
    Hunan University, China
    Co-chair:Qihong Deng
    Central South University, China
7. Recent progress in IAQ and Health Research in China
    Co-chair: Yuguo Li
    Hongkong University, China
    Co-chair: Xu Yang
    Huazhong Normal University, China
    Co-chair: Jinliang Zhang
    Peking University,China