Keynote speech: "The Sustainability Agenda - an international policy perspective" by Rt. Hon. Simon Upton, Chairman of the OECD Round Table on Sustainable Development and Member of the Advisory Board of the Holcim Foundation, New Zealand/France.
Holcim Forum - "Basic Needs" September 16/17, 2004 The first ever Holcim Forum for Sustainable Construction was held at the ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology). Under the banner of "Basic Needs", experts and students from all over the world gathered to take part in workshops, debates, and lectures on a wide variety of topics surrounding housing, water supplies and road access, as essential elements of society's infrastructure. Participants included architects, planners, developers, scientists, engineers and representatives from business, politics, administration, and society at large, as well as promising international students from leading technical universities from across the world.
Proceedings of the first Holcim Forum for Sustainable Construction. ISBN 3 7266 0069 8 (ZIP/PDF 12MB)
View a complete list of participants. Holcim Forum 2004 - Participants' List (PDF, 20KB)