1995 Annual Meeting

1995 CIB W78 Meeting
Stanford, California
Wednesday August 23
5.30pm
MINUTES

1. Minutes of 1994 Meeting
   These were distributed and described.

2. Actions Arising
   They were all addressed elsewhere on the agenda.

3. The Work Programme
   The projects of the commission were presented and discussed.
   • Project A - Use of the Internet A presentation was made from Ziga Turk, Per Christianson and Bo Christer Bjork of the working commission=12s progress in this area with an electronic list server for full members and the commission management board, with world wide web home pages describing the commission=12s activities and with proposals for an electronic journal. A discussion followed including constructive suggestions of how these initiatives could be best exploited including suggestions of how the electronic journal could be most effectively introduced.

   • Project B - The Virtual Building Model This proposal was led by Matti Hannus of VTT and was for the creation of an electronic test bed of a simple standard building implemented as an elementary electronic representation. Some suggestions of how experiences with a similar initiative within the COMBINE project could be learnt from, were offered.

   • Project C - International Comparison of National IT Strategies This proposal was led by Martin Betts of University of Salford. It was for a project to compare the way IT implementation in practice in construction was being co-ordinated and directed in different countries as a means of learning lessons that were translatable between initiatives. Representatives from more than 10 participating countries were identified.

4. Future Meetings
   The 1996 meeting of the commission would be held in Bled, Slovenia between 12-14 June. The theme for the Bled meeting and workshop was proposed to focus on issues of communication. A preliminary call for papers was distributed and further details would be made available on the W78 members list server.

   Candidates for a meeting in 1997 were the Technion in Haifa and James Cook University in Australia. Both were considered acceptable by the meeting and the management board would continue to explore these options before making a decision for a final choice of venue before the end of this year.

5. Relationship to other working commissions
   In addition to meetings of the commission, forthcoming joint workshops with other commissions were proposed. These would include:
   October 1995 - Oxford W82
   August 1996 - Glasgow W65

6. Any Other Business
   The co-ordinator thanked Martin Fischer of Stanford, and his organising committee for having organised a highly successful workshop. He also thanked the commission management board for their support in the organising of the commission.