Coordinator(s)

  • Dr Richard Burt, Auburn University, USA
  • Dr Mark Shelbourn, Birmingham City University, UK

Objectives and Scopes

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.

Current Work Programme

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

Planned Output

  • Publication on Education and Accreditation worldwide
  • 2019: Publication of a Research Roadmap on Education in the Built Environment

External Relations

  • 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.

Membership

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