CIB is the acronym of the abbreviated French (former) name: "Conseil International du Bâtiment" (in English this is: International Council for Building). In the course of 1998, the abbreviation has been kept but the full name changed into:
INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR RESEARCH AND INNOVATION IN BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION
CIB was established in 1953 as an Association whose objectives were to stimulate and facilitate international cooperation and information exchange between governmental research institutes in the building and construction sector, with an emphasis on those institutes engaged in technical fields of research.
CIB has since developed into a world wide network of over 5000 experts from about 500 member organisations with a research, university, industry or government background, who collectively are active in all aspects of research and innvation for building and construction.
The multidisciplinary conference themes include: Durability science, service life planning and prediction methodologies, sustrainable construction, building physics and pathology, historical and old buildings. The 2014 RILEM Week will be held in conjunction with XIII DBMC.
The organisers are interested in papers covering a range of themes including: challenges in using facilities, the value of FM, facilities management as a profession, involving users in FM and facilities/building projects, the role of clients in the development sustainability of FM and built environment.
