These Congress Proceedings include, in addition to the over 600 scientific papers and the post-graduate contributions, the challenges to the world's research community as presented at the Congress by the UN, WHO, OECD, ECTP and the UK National Platform for the Built Environment.
Internet sessions are being organized dedicated to the Implementation of Energy Efficient Buildings Policies in Latin America in September 2010, North America in October 2010, Asia in November 2010, Mediterranean countries and Africa in January 2011 and Australia-New Zealand in February 2011.
The special themes at the conference are: Extreme events in Built Environment, Critical Infrastructures FM and Heritage Building Management. Included are changing environment of FM, effective use of resources, results of FM operations and meeting organisational and human needs.
The Conference stimulates and facilitates international cooperation and information exchange in building and construction research and innovation and technology development. It is engaged in the scientific, technical, economic and social domains related to building and construction.