CIB is delighted to announce that the Proceedings for the World Building Congress 2022 hosted by RMIT in Melbourne Australia are now available with open access here
A total of 301 papers from the conference have successfully been accepted by the IOP, and the prefatory materials and peer-review materials provide a good background.
For some time now the CIB membership has desired that conference papers be Scopus-indexed and more formally published so the profile of their work is raised. Indeed many members have stated that their funding to attend CIB conferences depends on proceedings being published in this way.
In early 2022, CIB negotiated a one-time contract with the Institute of Physics (IOP) Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, to publish the proceedings of World Building Congress 2022. This is also where the Sustainable Built Environment (SBE) conference series is published, see for example. Publishing with IOP raises the profile of CIB proceedings papers by being indexed with a known publisher.
Michael Behm wrote a very good article in September 2022 explaining the background to the agreement with the IOP, which you can read here
