The Agenda is scheduled to be released at the very beginning of 1999. Industry will be a key player in global sustainable development in the 21st Century. The importance of the construction sector and the built environment when it comes to attaining a sustainable development in our societies was clearly defined and underlined in a number of speeches and addresses during the Congress. Programme painted a comprehensive picture of the vast importance of the construction sector in the Union. He also highlighted the fact that construction relative to most other industries is less developed regarding operational concepts, technologies and occupational safety.
Business needs an active dialogue with other stakeholders in society.
Successful research meetings, be they symposia, conferences or congresses, result in determining and establishing state of the art knowledge and directions for future developments. And this is exactly what this Congress did. The five volume proceedings is a valuable source of information for those interested in all the varied aspects of Construction and the Environment.