Coordinator

Bart Bleys, Buildwise, Belgium

Objectives and Scopes

CIB W062 – Water Supply and Drainage brings together researchers and practitioners to advance knowledge, innovation, and best practice in water supply, drainage, sanitation, water efficiency, public health, and sustainable plumbing systems in the built environment.

The Objectives of the Commission are:

  • to report on research results, industrial developments and standardization progress
  • to stimulate concerted research actions between different research teams
  • to coordinate the drafting of “states-of-the-art” for selected topics
  • to draw up inventories of research and bibliographic lists

The Commission’s Scope includes:

  • Water supply systems and drinking water treatment (softening, heating etc.) inside buildings
  • Water (waste and rainwater) drainage systems in buildings and individual waste water treatment

Current Work Programme

Annual seminars are organized by the Scientific committee and the Coordinator. Following each seminar a plenary Commission Meeting is held.

Topics addressed in the Work Programme are:

  • Hydraulics related to pressure piping and gravity drainage (including rainwater drainage)
  • Calculation and lay-out methodologies: peak flow calculation etc.
  • Materials behaviour: pathology (corrosion), use of plastic pipes etc.
  • Maintenance and renovation
  • Economy of resources: water conservation, recycling of water, hot water production and distribution etc.
  • Environmental aspects: individual waste water treatment
  • Health and safety: water quality at tap, Legionella etc.
  • Testing of piping installations and sanitary appliances (WC’s etc.)
  • New product developments
  • Implementation of research results in standards and regulations
  • Information and electronics in plumbing systems: leak detection, domotics etc.

Planned Output

  • Proceedings from annual symposia

Membership

Members of this Working Commission have to be either a representative of a CIB Member Organisation or an Individual CIB Member.

The full list of CIB working commissions is available here.