March 2016

From the CIB Management

Elections CIB 2016–2019
President, Officers and other Board Members
Introduction
The CIB Board can have maximal 25 Members.
Including the President, IPP (Immediate PastPresident) and other Officers.
According to the CIB Constitution maximal two
members of the Board can be from the same country.
The (at present) eight CIB Regional Directors have astanding invitation to attend Board meetings as Guest,
also if they are not Member of the Board.
Non-Board Members can be appointed by the new
Board as Members of a Board Committee (PC:
Programme Committee, AC: Administrative
Committee, MCC: Marketing and Communications
Committee, SCC: Student Chapters Committee). In
that case they will have a standing invitation to attend
Board Meetings as Guest.
All CIB Members have been invited to submit
nominations for candidates for election into the 20162019 CIB Board.
Based on all nominations received the current CIB
Board, as requested by the CIB Constitution, proposes
the hereafter following candidates for election by theCIB Membership at the General Assembly meeting on
May 30, 2016 in Tampere, Finland.
Additional Nominations can officially be submitted (tothe CIB Secretariat) by Members until two months
prior to the General Assembly.

2. Prof Keith Hampson,
Sustainable Built Environment National
Research Centre (SBEnrc), Curtin
University, Perth, Australia
Full member Vice President
3. Chelydra Percy
Building Research Association of New
Zealand, Judgeford, Porirua City,New Zealand
Full member Vice President
4. Peter Paul van ’t Veen
Program Director Buildings &Infrastructures, TNO Delft, TheNetherlands
Full member Treasurer
5. Prof Dr Chrisna de Plessis
Head of the Department of Architecture,
University of Pretoria, Pretoria,
South-Africa
Associate member Chair PC
6. Shyam Sunder
NIST - National Institute of Standards &Technology - Building & Fire ResearchLaboratory, Gaithersburg, USA
Full member Immediate Past
President
Nominations have been received for the following
persons, who the current Board proposes to be elected
Board Member and if elected, recommends to the new
Board to be appointed as chairs for Board Committees
and Guests at the meetings of the new Officers’Committee.

Nominations received and proposal by theoutgoing Board
Nominations have been received for the following
persons, who the current Board proposes to be elected
into the respective Officers positions:

7. Prof Dr Albert Chan
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University,
Hong Kong, China
Associate member Chair SCC

1. Helena Soimakallio
Finnish Association of Civil Engineers
RIL, Helsinki, Finland
Full member President

8. Eva Sikander,
Sustainable Built Environment,
SP Technical Research Institute of
Sweden, Borås, Sweden
Associate member Chair MCC

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Nominations have been received for the following
persons, who the current Board proposes to be elected
Board Member.
George Klepfisch
Belgian Building Research Institute,
Brussels, Belgium
Full member
Prof Alex Abiko
Escola Politécnica, University of SãoPaulo, São Paulo, Brasil
Associate member
Richard Tremblay
National Research Council of Canada,Ottawa, Canada
Full member
Prof Qiang Xu
Shanghai Research Institute of BuildingSciences, Shanghai, China
Full member
Dr Thorkild AerØDanish Building Research Institute,Aalborg University,
Copenhagen, Denmark
Full member
Prof Kalle Kähkönen
Tampere University of Technology,
Tampere, Finland
Associate member
Thomas Morszeck
Fraunhofer-Informationszentrum Raumund Bau IRB, Stuttgart, Germany
Associate member
Péter Tóth
ÉMI Nonprofit LLC for Quality Control
and Innovation in Building
Budapest, Hungary
Full member
Dr Mohammad Shekarchizadeh
Construction Materials Institute(CMI),School of Civil Engineering,
University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
Full member
Antonio Occhiuzzi
Istituto per le tecnologie dellacostruzione, Milan, Italy
Full member

Dr Seung-Eon Lee
Building and Urban Research Institute,
Korea Institute of Civil Engineering andBuilding Technology, Gyeonggi-do,
Republic of Korea
Full member
Prof Les Ruddock
Construction and Property Economics,
School of the Built Environment
University of Salford, Salford, UK
Associate member
Prof Michail Kagioglou
School of Art, Design and Architecture
University of Huddersfield
Queensgate, Huddersfield, UK
Associate member
Prof Dr Brian Kleiner
Myers-Lawson School of Construction
Virginia Tech Blacksburg, USAAssociate member
Remaining 2 BO seats
The current CIB Board has asked the CIB Officers topursue nominations from the following two countries:• India• Indonesia
If nominations from these countries are submitted intime and in accordance with the CIB Constitution, thecurrent Board will in principle support those. Assumingthat no nominations are submitted from thesecountries the current Board advises the CIB
Membership to accept two vacancies in the new Boardand to allow the new Board to search for appropriate
candidates after the General Assembly meeting.
Information per candidate
In a separate document more detailed information isgiven on each candidate, for which a nomination has
been received. CIB Members can ask the CIB General
Secretariat to provide a copy of this document.
Additional Info
If you need any additional information on theProcedure of Nomination to the CIB Board, you cancontact:
Wim Bakens, CIB Secretary General
Tel: +31 10 4110240
Email: wim.bakens@cibworld.nl

Dr Isao Nishiyama
Building Research Institute, National
Research and Development Agency
Ibaraki-ken, Japan
Full member

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From the CIB Management15-03-2016