At its meeting in October 2008 the CIB Board approved a scoping and definition paper and first proposal Action Plan on the new theme "Clients & Users" that has replaced the earlier CIB Priority Theme "Performance Based Building".
Clients and Users is used here to indicate the broad and multidisciplinary research area. As a provisional
scoping of clients and users, it is suggested to use:
- Meeting clients, users and societal demands and needs has been identified as a driver for construction development. Further, both private and public clients have been called upon as change agents for this development of construction. The client has a central role in identifying users and society requirements,
arranging for these to be met through appropriate procurement actions, maintaining smooth communication channels throughout the project, taking delivery of the final project output as well as overseeing initial use and arranging for performance monitoring.
It is planned to be able to present a more definitive CIB Clients and Users' Action Programme after the CIB Board Meeting in April 2009.
WHO challenged CIB at its World Building Congress a.o. to develop methods for Post-Occupancy Evaluations and Health Impact Assessments, to publish a comprehensive healthy building manual and to establish a code of conduct promoting healthy building construction.
The OECD challenge, clearly expressed prior to the CIB Congress in May 2010, was: How do you create effective environments for education that are usable and sustainable in the long term? The CIB-OECD collaboration began in 2009 and has produced reports on the usability of workplaces.
This contains hyperlinks to data in the CIB Databases of special relevance to Client & Users.
Future Meetings (CIB related and other meetings)
CIB Publications
CIB Task Groups and Working Commissions
Future Meetings (CIB related and other meetings)
CIB Publications
CIB Task Groups and Working Commissions
CIB news articles as published in the CIB Newsletter of special relevance to Clients & Users can be found here
