CIB Organisation
The final responsibility for CIB's policy lies with the General Assembly which takes place annually and in which the legally appointed representatives of the CIB member organisations have the right to participate. It is the General Assembly which discusses and determines the general policy of CIB. At every third annual meeting of the General Assembly, the CIB Officers and the other members of the CIB Board are elected.
The CIB Board appoints the members of its two Standing Committees: the Administrative Committee and the Programme Committee and such other committees as it may decide.
The AC - Administrative Committee deals principally with all financial and related affairs of CIB as well as with membership applications.
The responsibility of the PC - Programme Committee is for the CIB research and innovation related activities. It establishes the various CIB Commissions; it conducts an ongoing review of the performance of these Commissions and it terminates them if they have accomplished their task. Also it officially appoints the Coordinators of these Commissions.
A third Committee, which reports to both the AC and PC is the MCC - Marketing and Communication Committee, whose objectives are to give guidance as concerns the planning, production and dissemination of CIB's output and to aim for each output being as attractive as possible to its envisaged target groups, which explicitly is to include the building and construction industry.
A fourth Committee - the SCC - the Student Chapter Committee - has the responsibility of encouraging the maintenance and growth of CIB Student Chapters. In particular it aims to foster the establishment of Student Chapters with an international membership, in order to mirror the international composition of CIB Commissions. It also monitors the level of activity of all Chapters, whether international, national or institution-based.
At the very heart of the CIB organisation are the 50 or so CIB Commissions. These may take the form of either a Task Group where there is a limited programme that can be accomplished within a defined period, or a Working Commission.
Each Commission has a defined scope, objectives and a work programme and is chaired by a Coordinator or by two Joint Coordinators who facilitate the Commission's activities and who communicate on its behalf with the CIB Programme Committee and with the CIB General Secretariat and in some cases also with other Organisations with which the Commission has a liaison.
The CIB organisation is facilitated by the CIB General Secretariat, which is located in the Netherlands and which operates under the supervision of the CIB Secretary General.
