Congress Themes

WBC2022 themes will include: 

• Climate change and environmental sustainability, including construction and demolition waste and sustainable supply chains;  

• Addressing poverty and inequality, especially through access to appropriate social and affordable housing;  

• Digital Construction/Construction 4.0; 

• Smart built environment/smart cities/smart communities including transport networks;  

• Industrialised/offsite construction/pre-assembly; 

• Responding to COVID-19 – how the built environment supports health and well-being and how construction and the built environment contribute to economic recovery. 

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Categories for Author Submissions

When submitting an abstract or paper, authors must choose one of the following categories:

• Accelerating innovation in construction (TG96)

• Advancements in utilizing expertise and automation to increase project performance (W117)

• Architectural, spatial and infrastructure planning, and the fourth Industrial Revolution (W096, W101 & TG91)

• Building stronger legal foundations for our construction future (W113)

• Circular Built Environments (TG88, T1-SC, W116 & One Planet SBC)

• Collaborating for innovation in the built environment: re-energising CIB

• The common good (W099 & W123)

• The construction sector's role in and response to rebuilding the post-COVID economy (W055 & TG81)

• Durability & climate change: Implications for building design & construction practice

• Enhancing the education and work environment for people in construction (W089 & W123)

• General (other)

• Implications for infrastructure from electric vehicles (TG91)

• Intelligent buildings for the future (W098)

• Learning from the pandemic for a smart and sustainable future (W102, W112, W116, W118 & W123)

• Managing risk through knowledge management (W102)

• Offsite construction: empowering future resilience and capability (W121)

• Open building: the key to a regenerative housing stock (W104)

• OpenScience environment for moisture safety – from science to practice (W040)

• Organisation and Management of Construction: New Challenges and Opportunities (W065 & W055)​

• Public private partnerships: past, present and future (W122)

• Urban resilience: implications, considerations, and the way forward (W120)