I enjoyed working with my co-chairs Naomi Keena, Holger Wallbaum, Greg Foliente, Thomas Lützkendorf and the panel of paper reviewers in selecting best papers and outstanding reviewers for the World Sustainable Built Environment 2024 Conference. Following an intensive process, 7 best papers and 5 outstanding reviewers were chosen. It was a difficult working through an excellent and wide ranging set of contributions to select the winners. These are the best papers:

• The Challenge of Modeling Tracked Electricity Consumption in EPDs: An Example for Building Materials, by N Alaux, K Treyer, A Passer
• Estimating the Circularity of Building Elements using Building Information Modelling by O. Gbenga John, K Forth, S Theißen, A Borrmann
• Soil carbon sequestration in building life cycle assessment: Offsetting measure or site impact by M Roberts, M P Thibaudeau.
• A Systems Perspective on the Interactions Between Urban Green Infrastructure and the Built Environment by R Reitberger, Pattnaik, L Parhizgar, C Trost, H Yazdi1, M A Rahman, S PaulNeit, T Roetzer, H Pretzsch, C Traidl-Hoffmann, F Ludwig, A Reischl, M P Plaza Garcia and W Lang
• Multi-criteria decision making for timber constructions: analysis of ceiling types using utility Analysis by K Theilig, D Merk, T Blomer, W Lang, S Winter and S Birk
• Building passports in their role as building information systems – background, framework, implications by M Buchholz and T Lützkendorf
• Office environment and workers’ productivity in the era of hybrid work: analysis considering office environment and home environment by S Arata, M Sugiuchi and S Kawakubo

The papers are being published by IOP so will be available for everyone to read soon. The outstanding reviewer awards were given to:

• Shun Kawakubo
• Mark Russell
• Dilshi Dharmarathna
• Elkington Sibusiso Mnguni
• Maxine Chan

Many thanks to these reviewers and many others who spent many hours reading papers and providing feedback to authors.