CIB is the acronym of the abbreviated French (former) name: "Conseil International du Bâtiment" (in English this is: International Council for Building). In the course of 1998, the abbreviation has been kept but the full name changed into:
INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR RESEARCH AND INNOVATION IN BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION
CIB was established in 1953 as an Association whose objectives were to stimulate and facilitate international cooperation and information exchange between governmental research institutes in the building and construction sector, with an emphasis on those institutes engaged in technical fields of research.
CIB has since developed into a world wide network of over 5000 experts from about 500 member organisations with a research, university, industry or government background, who collectively are active in all aspects of research and innvation for building and construction.
Attention to culture as an influencing topic within construction business-environments has become an increasingly serious topic, because today's world is increasingly globalizing, resulting in a continuous growth of multi-cultural human interactions. This is an overview of how CIB has so far addresses this issue of Culture in Construction. 
Researchers, academicians and practitioners in the AEC/FM industry are invited to submit papers representing original contributions on the themes given below. Papers can focus on divers IT aspects of design, construction or facility management.
