The CIB Working Commission W115 "Construction Materials Stewardship" was established in January 2007.

Our mission is to:

• 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

• carry out these tasks in ways to maximize positive financial, social and environmental and ecological sustainability effects, impacts and outcomes.

Against the background of the mission statement the Commission's Objectives are to develop methods, strategies and initiatives to promote:

• Effective use of new and existing construction materials

• Utilization of sustainable materials

• Regeneration of the construction material resource base

• Use of waste to make construction materials

• Building, component and material reuse

• Minimisation of construction waste

• Deconstruction and design for deconstruction

• Design and utilization of transformable and adaptable buildings

• Renovation and adaptable reuse of existing buildings

• Use of life cycle costing and management for CMS

• Collection of evidence to support policy and regulatory development for CMS

For the very first period after the official establishment of this Commission its programme objective concern:

• expanding the commission membership base

• 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

• 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:

• all accessible literature with accompanying literature reviews on (aspects of) Construction Materials Stewardship

• information on relevant initiatives, interventions and programmes in member countries.

Coordinators

Members

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

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

TG 39 Reports

W115 Reports

Others