PBSRG - CIB Task Group 61

CIB Overview
The CIB provides a global network for international exchange and cooperation in research and innovation in building and construction, in support of an improved building process and of improved performance of the built environment. CIB stands for (in French) "Conseil International du Bâtiment" and the full name is the "International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction". More information about CIB can be found at http://www.cibworld.nl/.

CIB Objectives
The CIB provides a global network for international exchange and cooperation in research. Objectives of the CIB Task Group 61 are:

To be a forum for innovative, proactive, and progressive clients, industry practitioners, and academics to drive forward the knowledge and use of performance information and value in construction and related services and as a portal to learn from each other. The group strives to be a bringer of change, based upon 14 years of testing in construction performance, to push the industry away from commoditization and low performance and into an environment of measurement and value.
To identify and compile a list of experts, documents, case studies, and research on the use of performance information in the delivery of construction in each major country or area of the world.
To highlight the use and impact of performance information in each country in both a CIB sponsored journal and a CIB “living document” to allow clients, professionals, contractors, and researchers to quickly identify experts and their work with performance information around the world.
To proactively educate and assist government and private construction clients to change from a price based buying to value based buying using performance information.
To blend the contributions of academia, construction clients, major general contractors, subcontractors, design/engineering professionals, and researchers, to change the delivery of construction processes from price based to a more efficient and profitable delivery system which uses value (performance information and price).
To document, create, and implement performance information to minimize construction risk