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.
In preparation of the conference movies will be made in South Africa and The Netherlands on Open Building for Residential Building. At the conference ideas will be tested out for housing and human settlements in South Africa
The CIB Board decided to continue with the CIB Priority Theme Sustainable Construction at least until the end of 2016, but a stronger emphasis on developing countries/emerging economies. Chrisna du Plessis is appointed as the new Coordinator for this Theme.
