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.
Amongst others the Themes and Topics of the conference are: behaviour-based safety, design for safety, regulations and incentives for safety, safety culture, safety benchmarking, integration of productivity, quality and safety performance parameters and safety and building information modelling. 
The conference main themes are: decision models/frameworks, policies and strategies, implementation - needs and issues, PPP markets, financing, performance, risk management, sustainability of PPP projects, governance & institutions, and managing change & innovation.
