Partner Organisations

CIB’s Mission Statement includes the express directive to promote appropriate collaboration with other international organisations where this is judged to be of international benefit.

CIB has a Special Consultative Status with the United Nations and as such we align to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In addition, as of 2021, CIB has official partnerships often underpinned by Memoranda of Association in the following areas. Many CIB Commissions have also established their own liaisons with counterpart international organisations, these links are referenced separately under each Commission in the Commissions section of this website.

International Standardisation

• ISO, the International Organisation for Standardization. CIB nominates a number of liaison representatives to ISO committees, they are typically representatives of relevant CIB Working Commissions or Task Groups, and all are required to follow ISO’s recommended procedures for stakeholder engagement and building consensus where a CIB response is to be provided.

Civil Engineering

CIB has an official cooperation with five other international organizations who together comprise the Liaison Committee of International Associations of Civil Engineering. Member associations of the Liaison Committee are:

• CIB – International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction
• ECCS – European Convention for Construction Steelwork
• FIB – Fédération Internationale du Béton
• IABSE – International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering
• IASS – International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures
• RILEM – Réunion Internationale des Laboratoires d’Essais et de Recherche sur les Matériaux et les Constructions.

The LC has two main work programmes driven by two Committees:

• Joint Committee on Structural Safety (JCSS), since 1971
• Joint Committee on the GLOBE Consensus (JCGC), since 2021 (see also below).

Energy in the Built Environment

• IEA, International Energy Agency – ECBCS, Executive Committee for Energy Conservation in Buildings and Community Systems.

Indoor Climate

• ISIAQ, International Society for Indoor Air Quality and Climate.

Automatisation and Robotics

• IAARC, International Association for Automation and Robotics in Construction.

Information Management

• UICB, International Union of Building Centres.

Sustainable Construction

• The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Sustainable Buildings & Construction Initiative, which grew into the Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction (GlobalABC) launched at COP21 in Paris in 2015 as the global coordination body on buildings for COP. CIB is a member of GABC, see here for their five-year review published in April 2022. See also the SDGs Knowledge Hub.
• iiSBE, International Initiative for a Sustainable Built Environment.
• SBE Conference series, co-owned by CIB with three other partners: iiSBE, FIDIC and UNEP.
• GLOBE Consensus, published in 2020 as a product of the Joint Committee on the GLOBE Consensus (JCGC) of the Liaison Committee (see above). In November 2022 the JCGC published its GLOBE Policy Advice Document for COP27 – DECARBONISING GLOBAL CONSTRUCTION.

Resilient Urbanisation

• UNISDR – The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction.

Architectural Research

• ARCC – the USA based Architectural Research Centers Consortium
• CIAT – the Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists.

Construction Organisation, Management and Economics

The following Regional Cooperative Research Networks:

• ARCOM – Association of Researchers in Construction Management
• ASOCSA – Association of Schools of Construction of Southern Africa
• A+CA – Architecture + Construction Alliance
• CREON network – Construction Researchers on Economics and Organisation in the Nordic Region