Construction Materials Stewardship
The CIB Working Commission W115 "Construction Materials Stewardship" was established in January 2007.
Our mission is to:
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drastically reduce the deployment and consumption of new non-renewable construction materials, to replace non-renewable materials with renewable ones whenever possible, to achieve equilibrium in the demand and supply of renewable materials and ultimately to restore the renewable resource base, and
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carry out these tasks in ways to maximize positive financial, social and environmental and ecological sustainability effects, impacts and outcomes.
Objectives
Against the background of the mission statement the Commission's Objectives are to develop methods, strategies and initiatives to promote:
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Effective use of new and existing construction materials
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Utilization of sustainable materials
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Regeneration of the construction material resource base
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Use of waste to make construction materials
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Building, component and material reuse
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Minimisation of construction waste
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Deconstruction and design for deconstruction
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Design and utilization of transformable and adaptable buildings
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Renovation and adaptable reuse of existing buildings
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Use of life cycle costing and management for CMS
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Collection of evidence to support policy and regulatory development for CMS
Work Programme
For the very first period after the official establishment of this Commission its programme objective concern:
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expanding the commission membership base
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developing cooperative and synergetic working relationships with other CIB Task Groups and Working Commissions that are active in the area of Sustainable Building and Construction
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developing and agreeing a set of detailed objectives and establishing a priority roadmap for achieving these objectives, taking into account work already covered by other CIB Task Groups and Working Commissions.
A first programme objective in support of this is to develop a Commission Database containing:
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all accessible literature with accompanying literature reviews on (aspects of) Construction Materials Stewardship
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information on relevant initiatives, interventions and programmes in member countries.
Co-ordination
Members
Coordinators
Name | Title | Affiliation | Country |
Frank Schultmann | Prof. Dr. | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | Germany |
Abdol R. Chini | Prof. Dr. | University of Florida - M.E. Rinker, Sr. School of Building Construction at the University of Florida | USA |
Members
Name | Title | Affiliation | Country |
Kerry London | Prof | University of South Australia - School of Natural and Built Environment | Australia |
S. Shrivastava |
Dr. Dr. PhD |
CBRI - Central Building Research Institute | India |
Politecnico di Milano - Building Environment Science and Technology Department | Italy | ||
Shiro Nakajima | Dr. | Building Research Insitute - Department of Building Materials and Components | Japan |
Abou Moussa | Abou Green Building | Niger | |
Rolf André Bohne | NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology - Faculty of Architecture and Fine Art | Norway | |
Prof. | IST - Technical University of Lisbon - Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture | Portugal | |
June Bek |
Building and Construction Authority | Singapore | |
Naalamkai Ampofo-Anti | CSIR Built Environment | South Africa | |
Holger Wallbaum | Prof. Dr. | Chalmers University of Technology - Civil and Environmental Engineering | Sweden |
Soofia Tahira Elias-Özkan | Dr. PhD | Middle East Technical University – Department of Architecture, Ankara | Turkey |
Gillian Hobbs | BRE - Building Research Establishment | United Kingdom | |
Nicholas Hytiris | Dr. | Glasgow Caledonian University - School of Built & Natural Environment (BNE) | United Kingdom |
Alireza Maheri | Dr. | Northumbria University - School of the Built Environment | United Kingdom |
A. K. Ali PhD |
Assoc. Prof.
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Louisiana State University | USA |
Bradley Guy | Assist. Prof. | The Catholic University of America - School of Architecture and Planning | USA |
Charles Kibert | Prof. Dr. | University of Florida - Powell Center for Construction and Environment | USA |
Mark Russell | Dr. | University of New Mexico | USA |
Meetings
Year |
Date |
Conference |
Country |
2016 |
May 30 - June 3 |
WBC16 - 20th CIB World Building Congree 2016 | Tampere, Finland |
2014 | October 28-30 | World SB14 Barcelona - World Sustainable Building 2014 Conference |
Barcelona, Spain |
2013 | September 9-10 | Sustainable Building Conference (SB13) | Singapore |
2012 | September 27-30 | 2012 Sarajevo - "Green Design Conference" | Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina |
2011 | October 18-21 | SB11 Helsinki - "World Sustainable Building Conference" | Helsinki, Finland |
2010 |
May 10-13 |
Salford Quays, UK |
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2009 |
June 15-19 |
SASBE09 "3rd CIB International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Built Environments" |
Delft, The Netherlands |
2009 |
June 11-14 |
"CMS2009 – CIB W115 International Conference on Construction Material" |
University Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands |
2008 |
September 21-25 |
World SB08 Melbourne - World Sustainable Building Conference. |
Melbourne, Australia |
2007 |
September 12-14 |
SB07 Lisbon - Sustainable Construction, Materials and Practices: Challenge of the Industry for the New Millennium |
Lisbon, Portugal |
Contact
Abdol R. Chini, Ph.D., P.E.
Director and Professor
Rinker School of Building Construction
University of Florida, RNK 304, PO Box 115703
Gainesville, FL 32611-5703 USA
Tel: +1 352 273-1165
Fax: +1 352 392-9606
E-mail: chini∂ufl.edu
Prof. Dr. Frank Schultmann
Chair of Business Administration, Production and Operations Management
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Universität Karlsruhe (TH)
Kaiserstraße 12
76131 Karlsruhe
GERMANY
Tel: + 49 (0)271 740 2209
Fax: +49 (0)271 740 4689
E-mail: frank.schultmann∂kit.edu
Documents
Announcement of new CIB Working Commission W115 on Construction Materials Stewardship
Announcement of and call for papers for the International Conference and Annual Meeting of CIB Working Commission 115 held in conjunction with Sustainable Building 2013 (SB13)
CIB PC Commendation 2014 : the CIB Programme Committee awarded the coordinators of CIB W115 for their outstanding contributions.
Report on the first business meeting of CIB Working Commission W115 „Construction Materials Stewardship“ Lisbon, Portugal, 2007
Report on the second business meeting of CIB Working Commission W115 „Construction Materials Stewardship“ Melbourne, Australia, 2008
Report on the third business meeting of CIB Working Commission W115 „Construction Materials Stewardship“ Twente, The Netherlands, 2009
Report on the fourth business meeting of CIB Working Commission W115 "Construction Materials Stewardship", held as a video conference hosted by the University of Florida 2010.
Report on the fifth business meeting of CIB Working Commission W115 "Construction Materials Stewardship" Helsinki, Finland, 2011
Report on the sixth business meeting of CIB Working Commission W115 "Construction Materials Stewardship" Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina, 2012
Report on the seventh business meeting of CIB Working Commission W115 "Construction Materials Stewardship" Singapore, 2013
Report on the eighth business meeting of CIB Working Commission W115 "Construction Materials Stewardship" Barcelona, Spain, 2014
Report on the ninth business meeting of CIB Working Commission W115 "Construction Materials Stewardship" Tampere, Finland, 2016
Presentation on the sub-theme "Transformable and adaptable buildings, building systems and components" at the second business meeting of CIB Working Commission W115 „Construction Materials Stewardship“ Melbourne 2008 by Elma Durmisevic
Presentation on the status quo in construction materials stewardship in the UK at the third business meeting of CIB Working Commission W115 „Construction Materials Stewardship“ 2009, Twente, The Netherlands, by Gilli Hobbs
Presentation on the status quo in construction materials stewardship in Norway at the third business meeting of CIB Working Commission W115 „Construction Materials Stewardship“ 2009, Twente, The Netherlands, by Anne Sigrid Nordby
Presentation on the status quo in construction materials stewardship in Japan at the third business meeting of CIB Working Commission W115 „Construction Materials Stewardship“ 2009, Twente, The Netherlands, by Shiro Nakajima
Presentation on the status quo in construction materials stewardship in Singapore at the third business meeting of CIB Working Commission W115 „Construction Materials Stewardship“ 2009, Twente, The Netherlands, by Edward Anggadjaja and Yvonne Soh.
"A short guide to the construction resources and waste roadmap" by the Construction Resources and Waste Platform
"Sustainable Construction - A Guide on Concrete Usage Index" by The Centre for Sustainable Buildings and Construction, Building and Construction Authority, Singapore