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Submit Your Abstract for the 2025 IIBEC Building Enclosure Symposium

IIBEC is now accepting submissions through January 17, 2025.

The 2025 IIBEC BES will take place at the St. Louis Union Station Hotel, St. Louis Missouri, October 26-28, 2025.

Please take note of these important dates:

December 6, 2024: Call for Abstracts opens
January 17, 2025: Call for Abstracts closes
January 20-26, 2025: Judges (Committee) scoring of abstracts
February 14, 2025: Abstract acceptance/declines sent
May 5, 2025: Draft papers due
August 4, 2025: Final papers, draft presentations, and draft assessment questions due
October 10, 2025: Final presentations and assessment questions due

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