W089 - Education in the Built Environment

The Commission focusses on the broad discipline of the built environment and its constituent fields.
The Commission aims:

to foster high quality academic debate about the way knowledge is generated, codified, taught and learnt
to promote stronger links between research, scholarship, teaching and practice
to promote the expansion of the international community of educators in the built environment
to create and disseminate pedagogic knowledge throughout the community of educators and provide a stronger intellectual basis for practice
to promote collaboration with other groupings of built environment educators.

The Commission will accomplish its objectives through:

organizing international symposia to facilitate debate and the advancement of knowledge
promoting the publication of scholarly articles on education, pedagogy and educational technology, covering empirical pedagogical research, applied educational theory, and practice issues
drawing from the international community of educators, examining social and cultural issues surrounding built environment education
engaging with stakeholders to advance the aims of the commission.

Biannual conferences
Joint project of CIB W089 and ASC on Higher education and professional accreditation worldwide

The Commission has a relationship with the CIB Encouraged Journal “Education in the Built Environment”.
The Commission has established a cooperation with ASC – the USA based Associated Schools of Construction.

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