UICB Annual Seminar

Date and place
Friday 22 September 2006, Golden Gate Hotel, Zitná 8, 110 00 Prague 1, Czech Republic
Present

• Adlercreutz Gunnel, President, The Building Information Foundation RTS, Finland
• Acevedo-Alvarez Jaime, Fraunhofer Informationszentrum, Germany
• Behal Lukas, ABF Inc., Czech Republic
  Böhm Rudolf, National Building Centre Brno, Czech Republic
• Fibiger Jan, Architecture and Building Foundation ABF, Czech Republic
• Laimets Erki, Estonian Building Foundation, Estonia
• Onay Baris, YEM The Building Information Centre, Turkey
• Polasek Michal, Veletrhy Brno, a.s. Trade Fairs Brno, Czech Republic
• Svitkova Jana, National Building Centre Brno, Czech Republic
• Vibe Andreasen Jörn, Danish Building Information Center-Byggecentrum, Denmark
• Salmi Markku, Secretary General, Building Information Ltd, Finland

Session I

10-10.20
Registration of participants

10.20
The seminar was opened by the President Gunnel Adlercreutz.

10.35
Report of the Secretary General, Markku Salmi (pdf 21 kb).

10.50
Project ‘More Members’ presented by Jörn Vibe Andreasen and Baris Onay (pdf 119 kb)

• Project plan was discussed and approved by present members including UICB newsletter and logo competition taking into account that it means extra costs approximately 1000-3000 €, which are not included in the present budget for 2006.
• The first newsletter will be sent out by the end of October and mailed to at least 100 new potential members. E-mail addresses will be sent to Baris Onay.
• The interpretation of membership criteria is that one of the areas mentioned in the Statutes shall be included in the activities of the new member. The name of UICB International Union of Building Centres will be interpreted in a new form “International Union of Building Information”.

12.40
UICB’s Staff Exchange Program presented by Baris Onay (pdf 53 kb)

The first pilots Turkey-Finland (R&D) and Turkey-Finland-Denmark (ICT) will be realised in a time of 6 months.

13.15
UICB’s Mission and Vision presented by the President Gunnel Adlercreutz
- commented already in the morning session

13.50
UICB’s Members and Activities presented by the Secretary General Markku Salmi
- presented and commented already in the morning session

13.55
UICB-IBEC co-operation presented by Rudolf Böhm

IBEC has closed down its activities. UICB will offer the possibility to continue the co-operation inside UICB.

Session II
Chaired by Rudolf Böhm

15.15
Prague centre of Information and education of the Czech Building Academy presented by Jan Fibiger

15.55
The ICONDA System (International Construction Database) presented by Jaime Acevedo-Alvarez
- promoted by CIB and UICB, administrated by IRB Fraunhofer Informationszentrum
- bibliographic databases (references)
- constructEU (addresses, names etc.)
- TecApprovals (technical approvals)
- ICONDA Media Store (German books, articles, BRE-products, Riba Bookshops, CSTBoutique)
- ICONDA Terminology (German, English, Spanish, French)

eContentPlus promoting sustainable construction
- geographic information
- educational information
- digital libraries

16.30
ABF’s activities presented by Lukas Behal

16.50
Closing discussion

17.00
Closing the meeting

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