Abstract :
Population increase and pace of progress has highlighted the urgent need for a proportionate increase in the number of housing units and industrial developments and the associated infrastructure. It is in response that RENEWBUILD2013 was organised. RENEWBUILD2013 brings together academics and industrialist from across the world to discuss and address the needs of the youth in terms sustainable buildings and infrastructure, focusing on low-cost, lowenergy housing units, industrial buildings and incubators to serve the needs of the ever growing younger population. The papers invited aimed at addressing this need for sustainable infrastructure. It is hoped that extended versions of some of these papers will be published in a Special Issue of The World Scientific Journal (TSWJ).
